Parking garage signage depends on your perspective
Click the image above for a gallery of Axel Peemoeller's 3-D signage
Elvis lives. Tupac lives. And we have just discovered that M. C. Escher is also alive, well, living in Australia, and going by the name of Axel Peemoeller. Designer Peemoeller worked out the math to create, optically, directional signage that appears to hang in the air. Found in the carpark of the Eureka Tower in Melbourne, there's no technowizardy here, just a man with a can of paint and a few severely skewed letters. The result: mindbending. And bloody genius. Well done, Mr.
Gallery: Axel Peemoeller Carpark Signs
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
BigMcLargeHuge 1:11PM (8/04/2008)
Makes me want to grab someone who's on acid and say:
"Our letters have escaped! Please catch them and return them to the walls. The 'P' is particularly fiesty and may require a running start."
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PaulPaul 1:11PM (8/04/2008)
that would really mess with my eyes and I'd prolly end up hitting the wall lol
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3seriesisking 3:04PM (8/04/2008)
Until they become mainstream, I can see this messing up a lot of people rather than helping them. Interesting though.
Torrent 10:52PM (8/04/2008)
What's so hard about putting an arrow on the wall pointing up?
CarlosMC 1:20PM (8/05/2008)
I hate it on rugby games, they have those ads painted on the grass in (awkward) perspectives and it's just so annoying. >_
Gregg 1:19PM (8/04/2008)
Wow. It is amazing that someone could figure out how to do that with a can of paint and a myriad of disparate surfaces. Give the guy a bonus.
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Torqued 1:23PM (8/04/2008)
Couldn't you do it with a projector? Just project the word "UP" over a complex surface and trace the outline. Seems like that would be easier than doing all that math. But then again, I slept through geometry most days...
Vintage 1:25PM (8/04/2008)
This isn't new at all. People have been doing this for years. It just requires a projector and a transparency. It's really not all that mind bending. Place the projector where you want the image to be "correct" from, project it, trace it, fill with paint. I've seen this like 50 times at art galleries.
why not the LS2LS7? 1:48PM (8/04/2008)
Wow, that's even better. I was going to suggest using a laser to trace the image. But projectors are cheaper and making a transparency is very simple. Heck, you could even use a video projector.
Gregg 2:07PM (8/04/2008)
I stand corrected. So give the guy a demerit for plagiarism or something...
Allan 1:20PM (8/04/2008)
Those are awesome... if anything just to see some sign of life in a parking garage. They're always so lame and boring.
Wonder how the paint will hold up in the traffic areas though. The "DOWN" in particular seems to cover a LOT of roadway.
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Benfolio 1:23PM (8/04/2008)
Somehow I don't think the way out is through those little black doors.....
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Todd 1:30PM (8/04/2008)
I mean it's neat, but all I can think of when I see this is that somebody used an overhead projector in a creative way
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Neil 1:45PM (8/04/2008)
It's just like the guy with the sidewalk chalk art, I love this type of stuff. Optical illusions are great.
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Kyle454ever 1:58PM (8/04/2008)
Now that's impressive.
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Eric 2:11PM (8/04/2008)
Cool! Just saw something like that the other day where logos were painted on a rugby field to look "normal" from the center camera's point of view.
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Marques 2:11PM (8/04/2008)
Maybe this sort of thing will contribute to a few less drunk-driving accidents. If I was leaving from a place (after a few drinks), and got into my car in the parking garage and saw this...oh boy...I'd drive right into a wall or something...or completely stop in confusion. Thus, my car would never make it out on the street where I could harm other drivers. Just those in the parking garage better watch out. JUST KIDDING.
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Red 3:05PM (8/04/2008)
I would piss myself if I was high and drove up to this parking garage thinking I was going to drive right into the giant floating UP.
Of course, I don't get high anymore, but can you imagine somebody on acid or shrooms? Psychedelic.
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Farris 6:28PM (8/04/2008)
I think the more troubling thing is the fact that you would drive high...
Seminole 3:32PM (8/04/2008)
That is really trippy. And I'm not even messed up. I bet people who were would become so mesmerized they would just crash right into the wall.
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