Colorful Illusions: Tricks to Fool Your Eyes

by Aki Nurosi

Book Overview

Aki Nurosi's designs in this book play subtle visual tricks on the viewer. Her use of colour and shape makes objects appear bigger or smaller than they are, or creates the illusion that a design is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806929979
• ISBN13: 9780806929972
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Sterling Publishing (NY)
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.2" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

A book you will geniunely enjoy

I noticed that a previous reviewer gives Colorful Illusions as a frequent gift. I do too! The book is a skillful blend of art book, puzzle book, gift book and educational book (but don't tell my children!). We learned a little about how colors can trick your eyes and we enjoy going back and forth over the puzzles. Very artistic, not at all your usual black and white slap-dash illusion book. It is really a book of art. I was also attracted to the easy-to-follow writing, I think Aki Nurosi is a genuine talent and my family looks forward to more books.

A full-color beauty -- a grand gift

I was actually at a museum when I found Mr. Nurosi's book. The cover of Colorful Illusions drew me in, very attractive. The premise is that of an art book which uses its complex color arrangements to become a puzzle book as well. Very attractive. I was also drawn to the deceptive simplicity of the writing. My 8-year-old daughter navigated the puzzles rather easily, and came to understand the finesse of color illusion as well. I can not say enough superlatives about this attractive volume. Read it and have fun learning! It will be a staple on my gift-giving lists for years to come. Thank you.

Very fun and very tricky book

I like this book a lot and it is tricky and I got fooled on different parts.I like the colors and my parents use it and look at it and they like it to.

its not just for kids

i didn't know what this was at first, an art book or a brain twister or a lesson in how color works. it's all three, and i like going over and over through the pages. very beautiful. it's so much more than a kids' book. i've been giving it as gifts since i found it last fall. pay attention, a book can be all of the above.

This is one beautiful, tricky book

Entertaining and beautiful, with clear explanations. I thought this would only be a book of illusions. So I started reading it and found myself paused by the real beauty of this book. It's so attractive, page after page. I teach elementary school students and brought the book to my class. They were captivated, and I was impressed by how easy it was to read and follow. The writer really explains, in clear language, how color tricks the eye. A few teachers borrowed it for themselves, and got just as much out of it. Children and adults. Entertaining and beautiful. Art and writing really working together. That's the measure of a great book. I recommend Colorful Illusions.