But sometimes optical illusions can be educational, particularly for anyone who works in graphic design. Type designers will know that letter forms can play tricks on us. Sometimes an equal amount ...

Independent publisher Counter-Print has released Optic, a new book on the history of optical illusions in graphic design and how this craft has developed over the years. The inception of Op Art came ...

Frustro is the work of Martzi Hegedűs, a 25-year-old graphic designer at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts who was inspired to create a typeface inspired by Escher. “At the beginning I did ...

Van Halem, a frequent speaker on the graphic design circuit, also made a recent splash with “Wind,” an optical-illusion typeface with layers that can be overlaid to create hypnotic patterns ...