Anuschka Blommers & Niels Schumm from Amsterdam in the Netherlands have created a series of extremely interesting and subtle Op Art portraits for Hector Magazine.

At first you may not notice that there is anything there other than black and white parallel lines, but on closer inspection you’ll see that there is in fact a hidden portrait in each image.  Brilliant and original.

All images copyright Blommers & Schumm / Hector Magazine 2012.  Please visit these sites to find out and see more of these fascinating portraits.

Every once in a while we get to see a fantastic Op Art inspired fashion collection.  This time it’s from influential American fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

Marc Jacobs Spring 2013 collection features sharp black and white lines and strong repeating geometric patterns and has clearly been influenced by 1960s fashion and the work of Op Artists like Bridget Riley.  You can see more of this inspired collection on the Marc Jacobs website.

All images © Marc Jacobs 2012: http://www.marcjacobs.com/marc-jacobs/womens/spring-13-ready-to-wear

It’s great to see Op Art transforming and bringing to life these otherwise dull communist era built flats in Gdansk, Poland.

The original design was done in 2010 with the murals being realised and completed shortly after.  You can see the original design – which differs from what you see above – here (and below).

Op Art Murals in Gdansk – original design

The murals were painted by young artists from Fine Arts Academy in Gdansk to commemorate No 303 Polish Fighter Squadron which was one of 16 Polish squadrons in the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the Second World War. It was the highest scoring RAF squadron of the Battle of Britain.  Rafal Roskowinski the founder and lecturer at the Mural division of the Academy (who has also been responsible for many other Gdansk murals) said: “No 303 squadron was not an average unit.  They were Polish knights and they gave a good lesson to the bandits…”

Thanks to Joanna Potratz for the photos and for finding the story.

Ventilate have just released the 8th in their series of free posters on the theme of hallucinations.  Each poster series sees a group of hand-picked talented professional artists and graphic designers designing and donating 24in x 36in, 300 dpi poster files which are provided as free downloads, ready-to-print.  Included in this series is a set of 6 Op Art works by Bradley Munkowitz, one of the artists we have featured on this site.

You can see (and download) the complete series at Ventilate Posters.

The full list of contributors to this series are:

Bradley Munkowitz – work.gmunk.com

Atelier Olschinsky – olschinsky.at

Mars Sandoval – syndromestudio.com

Ron Gervais – townshipco.com

Taiyo Yamamoto – deform.in

Yuko Brown – mynameisnotyoko.com

Michael Brown – blissthis.ca

If you are looking to create some of your own Op Art and aren’t sure where to start, then these Op Art Photoshop brushes from Spiral Pixel Design might be a good place to start.

There are 25 Op Art (and geometric) brushes created by Jo (from josweb.co.uk) in the package and they are completely free to use in both personal and commercial projects.