Third Prize: Impossible grid typography (Daniël Maarleveld)
The impossible object illusion, made popular by artists like Maurits Cornelis Escher, is an art form mostly confined to 2D representations, like Escher’s Waterfall where a flowing stream behaves like a perpetual motion machine feeding itself an unending current. Daniël Maarleveld adds 3D animations making his impossible typography even harder for your brain to comprehend. The shapes of the letters appear both rigid and flexible, concave surfaces become convex as they rotate, and determining each character’s direction of spin changes depending on what part you’re looking at.
