Years ago, I told a certain Photoshop engineer that when it came to girls, “Man, you’re so transparent, I can see a little checkerboard right through you!”
Riffing on that same visual idiom, this project by Guus Ter Beek & Tayfun Sarier is brilliantly simple. Designboom writes, “[T]he giant playful labels illustrate the familiar grey and white checkerboard pattern, visible when using the eraser tool in photoshop. Eliminating graffitti from traffic signs, color from mailboxes and portions of billboards, the intervention seemingly reveals a concealed world beneath our own.”
[Via Joe Ault]
John, a few years back I was driving through Greenwich when a tatty hoarding caught my eye – the top poster was featuring a woman in a kitchen advertisement and the sheet had come adrift around the top of her dress and revealed the six-pack of a bronzed male from an earlier ad beneath – the alignment was almost perfect!
Did I have a camera?
Yes – a Sinar and no more unexposed double darkslides, in the boot, and I was in a crowded one-way street, even had I had a handier camera.
This was well before digital, but I have now forgotten the strapline for the domestic scene, but I do remember even that made me chuckle at the time, but much water has flowed along the river of time since those halcyon days of film and my memory just ain’t what it used to be!
Rod