TODAY WE LIKE: Kentaro Nagai’s Twelve Animals

TODAY WE LIKE: Kentaro Nagai’s Twelve Animals

24/02/2009

text: Remo Bitzi

South America as a rat’s nose? Eurasia as a sheep’s belly? North America as an ox’s face? The whole world as a rooster? If zodiac-obsessed illustrator Kentaro Nagai designed our planet, it might very well look like a surreal boar today. Nagai is a brilliant Japanese graphic artist whose 2007 project “Twelve Animals” was just shown at the Tokyo’s Japan Media Arts Festival. Check out the animated flash version of “Twelve Animals” here.

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