New York-based designer Ji Lee is the creative director of branding and marketing at Google. His “Parallel Word” project — just one of the interesting things that we came across on his personal site — recreates entire rooms in miniature on the ceiling. We’ll let him explain the rationale:
“People fill the floor of their homes with furniture and walls with paintings and pictures. So why are the ceilings left empty? Decorating ceilings was a celebrated art form in the past centuries that somehow got lost through the reductionism of modernism. People don’t look at the ceiling anymore. It’s a dead space. So I wanted to bring a small wink to this space. I also liked the idea that somehow there’s a parallel world which coexists with ours.”
Check out the results after the jump.
But play this first. You know you were already singing it in your head.
Ji Lee's home
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Living room with a curious collection of what it seems to giant hairy balls; Richard Lombard
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Googling; Google Office, New York
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R2D2 meets Rhino; Google Office, New York
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[via The Morning News]