Faces

By François Robert

Forget the man in the moon. Twenty years ago, Swiss graphic designer Jean Robert discovered a face in a padlock. Since then, he and his brother Francois have been photographing the smirks, smiles, and pouts in everyday objects, finding uncanny resemblances to human and animal faces in everything from buildings to mops to shoes. In the lively spirit of "Play with Your Food" comes "Faces, " their collection of over 150 whimsical photographs that communicate a world of expression all in one satisfyingly chunky book. Each beautifully designed page features a different object with its own quirky personality and a hidden face guaranteed to make anyone smile."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811827933
• ISBN13: 9780811827935
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Searching for our emotional roots

A bell back looks sadly: it is the arc-shaped sad mouth (to fast or slow the clock's internal spring), the nose is the rotary button for minutes, the eyelid-heavy eyes are the dropped rotary buttons for clockwork and wake-noise. A brown brief case opens its zipper like a clumsy civil servant, a branch cut shear reminds rather of penguins from Patagonien as to the market garden, where it was robbed visually. After few exercise minutes one recognizes, that for many things a human face is the subtle designed basis. Radios and little house fronts, brushes, kitchen utensils, measuring tools: though produced for technical work, they nevertheless in a subtle way shake and wake that human in us, which was lost apparently. Was the plug socket designer sad, when he drew, wanting to give us secretly references on a work dead end offering no prospects with small wages? The manufacturer of the measuring instruments - did he miss to be surrounded by animals at his assembly-line? The selection of the photographers Francois and Jean Robert pulled to the light, which was meant perhaps only as anonymous report - or did not even turn out for the creators in consciousness, because their subconsciousness (Unterbewusstsein, Sigmund Freud), before being pushed and blocked up by the reasonable control, broke through: uncensored like dreams, which sometimes bring up for discussion, what they want instantly, (and not what our overcautious political correctness is demanding). The world of the emotional expressions, which was lost in the arms of technology - this lost world seems to have in-crept secretly back into the tiny articles, like doing a soul migration as known by the Hindus, - the purchase products seem to have been inspired like African art, propelled by a magic, pre-religious charm. Therefore "FACES" is not only a book for designers or Voodoo specialists, but also a book for children, usually more alive and creatively searching and feeling than adults! At least the hidden souls of animals in all those technical objects: Kids are able to identify them, I am sure! This tiny, square book is a manifest of searching for our lost emotional roots again!

Just Fun

My 10 year old daughter and I enjoyed looking through this book and laughing.

Faces Faces Everywhere!

As soon as I looked at the first few pages of this book I was hooked, from cover to cover this book is packed with an imaginitive look on the world and shows over 130 faces in places you would'nt have dreamed of looking for any meaning what-so-ever.My advice to anyone who has'nt got this book is to obtain one as soon as possible, this book simply has a fun outlook on the moderm world.

FACES EVERYWHERE

After viewing this book, it changed the way I look at objects around me in my daily life. I SEE FACES EVERYWHERE! It's quite an experience. Try it.

I love it!!!!

it brightens my day whenever I open up the pages.