ARSHIHARA: Applying the Ishihara Test to architecture's most iconic buildings

2014-08-22T19:45:00-04:00

Here's a fun visual exercise to drift off into the weekend with: Yannick Martin, a French architect and graphic designer now based in Colombia, has shared with us his latest project, ARSHIHARA — like much of Martin's œuvre, an investigative play with forms, language, architecture and cubes.

This is how he describes it: "The idea was to create minimal graphics that could represent the best some of the most famous building, and to illustrate them using the formal and colorful test of Dr Shinobu Ishihara, test that he made to recognize colorblind people."

Keep scrolling and try to guess the buildings before reading the hint...

All images courtesy of Yannick Martin

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ARSHIHARA: Applying the Ishihara Test to architecture's most iconic buildings