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‘Fool My Eyes’: The Trompe L’oeil index










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2025
Editorial Design, Publication Design, Screenprinting, Visual Culture Research

Fool My Eyes: The Trompe L’oeil Index was one of my two final-year projects at London College of Communication. The publication explores the history and evolution of Trompe L’oeil—the art of optical illusion—and how the technique has expanded into contemporary visual culture. By comparing early examples of the genre with modern case studies, the project reveals how far Trompe L’oeil has moved beyond traditional painting into sculpture, photography, fashion, and digital media. The cover became a practical experiment in illusion itself. I created a dummy copy of the book, physically tore holes in its blank cover, scanned those rips, and then screenprinted the scans onto the final cover. The result is a hyperreal, printed illusion that suggests the book has been punctured—despite being perfectly intact.

A5 (14.8X21cm), Perfect bound, Paperback, 58 pages (30 spreads)