Australian artist Chris Perry makes visually involving black and white ‘circle based’ Op Art works, often containing hidden messages.
Chris doesn’t use a computer to work out the designs and instead plans and draws everything by hand. This gives a slightly ‘imperfect’ feel to the works – the circles aren’t even for example – but it’s something that I think works really well. Chris sells his work as posters from his website.
US based architecture, construction and development firm ‘The Beck Group’ created this interesting Op Art play house for children for a Giving Gala 2011 charity event in Dallas, Texas (USA). The “design concept was motivated by a big zebra in the green grassland”. The play house was constructed using plywood 4″ insulation foam which was cut by a CNC machine.
Thanks to Nathalie for pointing this one out to me.
Nick Benson was inspired to create this beautiful Op Art photo whilst doing research for his 2D Colour Theory class. From Wikipedia: “Although being relatively mainstream, photographers have been slow to produce op art. In painting, Victor Vasarely and Bridget Riley were producing large amounts of art and the same can be said for many digital artists, such as Kitaoka. One of the primary reasons for the lack of photographers doing op art, is the difficulty in finding effective subject matter”
Limitless - Nick Benson Photography
Nick says: “I took that last sentence as a challenge. Here’s my first attempt at some Photographic Op Art, as well as the steps I took in creating this.
– I found a subject matter on the University of Hartford’s campus
– Took the photo using my Sigma 10-20mm lens to create more prominent vanishing points
– Processed the camera’s RAW image file in Adobe Lightroom 3
– Cropped the photo down to an 11×14 aspect ratio for a more effective compositon
– In Photoshop CS5 I inverted the colors and added a cooling filter, to create the three major classes of color interaction; simultaneous contrast, successive contrast, and reverse contrast.”
Nick says he is planning to take more Op Art inspired photos in the near future, so please keep an eye on the new Op Art Photography Gallery where we’re hoping to see more of Nick’s work soon. In the meanwhile, you can see more of Nick’s inspiring photos at Nick Benson Photography on Flickr.
A Flag for the Forgotten - Nick Benson
Meeta Panesar, a graphic designer from San Francisco in the US, has created a really interesting and well-executed concept design for Op Art Wine Packaging. You can see the full post on Meeta’s site here with the full image set.
Op Art Wine © Meeta Panesar 2011
“The design is inspired by the colors and designs of Joseph Albers and the Op Art movement. The usage of the rectangular elements reflects Alber’s “Homage to the Square,” a series of paintings begun in 1949.”
An html5 canvas Op Art experiment… Click on the different shapes in the left column to change the animation. Click on the coloured squares in the right column to control the colours. The ‘square’ is an attempt at a moving version of Vasarely’s ‘Vonal’ series.