RSS Feeds
Design
Optical Illusion Made Real: FAT's Face Vase Reveals Twin Portaits
Posted by Wilson Rothman at 5:00 AM on September 22, 2008
The design team Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) isn't the first to take the old "face vase" optical illusion seriously, but it may be the first to attempt to create actual portraits in the thin air surrounding pottery. "Heroes of the Invisible" forms the faces of designer/architect Mies van der Rohe and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi, chosen for being "two figures who explored the idea of the invisible in very different ways." (Call it aesthetics, but I also find this video of the vase to provide remarkable respite from hangover.) If you happen to worship Mies van der Rohe and Marconi, too, you can buy the high-gloss black vase, but its price is undisclosed, presumed ridiculous. [FAT via Dezeen]
The design team Fashion Architecture Taste (FAT) isn't the first to take the old
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
There are currently no AU comments for this post.
XM8500
Posted 5:35 AM 22/9/08
Cool effect, horrendously ugly vase: people would actually pay money for that? You can get the same product by having a 5 year old spin a pottery wheel, no joke.
XM8500
D_Zarster
Posted 5:22 AM 22/9/08
I had to watch it twice before I realiced I had to look for faces.. ^ ^
D_Zarster
mikail511
Posted 5:20 AM 22/9/08
im tripping fucking balls right bout now
mikail511
Blinklink11
Posted 5:09 AM 22/9/08
I deffinatly thought that was two people's silhouettes.
Blinklink11
Zadillo
Posted 5:43 AM 22/9/08
@Zadillo:
OK, I'm an idiot....:) Thought this was glass, but it actually is pottery. Never mind...:)
Zadillo
Zadillo
Posted 5:42 AM 22/9/08
@XM8500:
How would you get that effect with pottery as opposed to glass?
Zadillo
robbo
Posted 6:51 AM 22/9/08
Screw Marconi - I want a vase of Tesla's head - with sparks that fly out and fry the flowers.
robbo
Wilson Rothman
Posted 7:37 AM 22/9/08
@DssTrainer: I'm afraid that was the wrong answer. [CLANG of Banhammer] Thank you for playing.
Wilson Rothman
DssTrainer
Posted 7:29 AM 22/9/08
.... More crap news? Are you kidding me? You know how many vases look like faces when sillouetted like this? Whoop-de-dam-doo! The whole vase/face thing is soo old hat
DssTrainer
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Posted 9:44 AM 22/9/08
In order the impress the geeks i would suggest two profiles of Star wars characters............and a lego vase.
BiZarRroBALlmeR
Mandatory_Field
Posted 12:49 PM 22/9/08
Do they also make/design furniture? 'Cause I'd LOVE to get a FAT Table....
Mandatory_Field
fluf
Posted 12:43 PM 22/9/08
I know how it goes..
F - OOD
FOOD
M - OOD
MOOD
F - AT
FAT
fluf
xint
Posted 10:23 PM 22/9/08
.........I dont get it.
Where's the chick in a bikini?
xint
davidm
Posted 11:05 PM 22/9/08
Definitely not the first to do this, I've seen similat vases at Ripley's Believe It or Not in Atlantic City at least 3 years ago.
davidm