Moirémotion

Following the worldwide success of his Poemotion trilogy, Takahiro Kurashima’s latest book delights the eye with ingenious visual play

Kurashima’s interactive book objects feature graphic patterns that are animated by the reader/viewer with a special foil contained within the book, so that figures and forms are created out of optical overlays, set in motion and then disappear again.

Here, an astonishing panorama of unseen moiré effects (i.e. interference patterns produced when an opaque rule...