Twelve Animals: World maps as Chinese zodiac
12 Feb 2009
In a series of illustrations entitled “Twelve Animals,” graphic artist Kentaro Nagai rearranges the world map to create the beasts of the Chinese zodiac.
Rat
Ox
Tiger
Rabbit
Dragon
Snake // Horse
Sheep
Monkey
Rooster
Dog
Boar
The images shown here are high-contrast black-and-white photos of Nagai’s work, which is on display at the Japan Media Arts Festival at the National Art Center, Tokyo until February 15.
- Added: Also check out the animated Flash version of “Twelve Animals” at Graflex Directions. (Thanks, Patomaru!)
Damn, thats amazing. I’m really impressed.
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I feel like you should have linked directly to the flash version of his 12 works on his website which is even cooler
http://www.graflexdirections.com/project/piecepeace/01/
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That’s really cool and requires quite an eye to rearrange shapes like that into meaningful and accurate depictions of the animals. NEAT!!
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Wow, this is pretty incredible. I’m really glad I ran into this.
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The Rabbit is AMAZING
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What a genius.
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umm.. cool?
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These are beyond fantastic. Thank you for sharing.
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wow. that’s talent.
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Ah the miracle of matrixing. Without it so many cool figure-ground pics would be gibberish.
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I dont get it… what are those shapes supposed to be originally?
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this is actually kinda lame….
how is this talent? a 1st grader can re-arrange the shapes to make the shape of an animal just as poorly.
before you say I’m not artistic so i don’t get it… I am, and I get it… its just dumb.
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The world’s made of animals? It just goes to show, you can’t be too careful.
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Animals! Russ is right, it just goes to show, you can’t be too careful.
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stumbling ftw
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UNA FORMA SORPRENDENTE DE UTILIZAR LOS COTINENTES EN ESTAS IMAGENES (EL PERRO NO PARCE PERRO)
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