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fantastic! :D

do the crazy eye :D:D

Ah, I think I found it. Is this it? Found here.

If so, I like it. I wasn't familiar with the name, but now that I'm browsing, I know I've seen his work everywhere. Thanks for the new tangent to explore!

I have a lot of respect for the traditional media designers and artists that originally explored op art. I grew up doing a lot of graphic arts, typesetting and design in an analog print business, so I know how much work and dedication it took to get those really precise, clean lines without a computer.

But to be sure, I love computers, and I don't mind standing on the shoulders of giants. The precision is actually mathmatical, in an abstract way. I'll never be able to ink or cut a line as precise as math can. Meanwhile I begin to doubt that computers will ever surpass a human mind in creativity and aesthetics, and so we play.

Thanks, Carlos.

I'm unfamiliar with that exact piece. Do you have a link? I'd love to see it. There's very little new under the sun, and while I like operating from a raw, fresh or even naive mindset, its also very nice to appreciate the history.

This one of mine was a happy accident, frankly. A lot of my favorites are explorations and accidents like that. I get an idea for a shape from something in my environment and often there's a new design just a few minutes or sometimes even mere seconds later. I usually do a lot of the planning and visualization in my head, thinking about how I want to approach the iterative creation or build. Sometimes it takes an embarassingly short amount of time to actually create these once I sit down at the workstation, but I might have them bouncing around in my head for months before I actually start bending curves.

For a long time this was one of my least favorite designs, but it grew on me and survived being mangled or edited into something less pure and simple. Leaving stuff alone is hard, and I strive for flat, precise, simple designs that communicate through their structure and forms rather than through color theory or textures.

Seeing this one properly and nicely printed was a treat and an honor. It makes me happy that someone liked it enough to have it printed huge and hang it in their home.

Nice... I'm a big fan of op-art.
I'm actually looking at a very similar piece by Yusaku Kamekura (1973) in a Japanese magazine from 1975 called "Idea" and I can say you've taken it to a new level. This one is much better than the "original", in my opinion.

Keep it up.

.c