I found this design in Graphis International, 2005. Designed for American Airlines magazine, this image accompanied an explanation of what different plastic surgery techniques accomplish and how they work. The designer, Dianne Gibson, plays with our expectations by interposing a black and white face on top of a colored one. Illusion of depth is created by the illusion of peeled back paper on the forehead, left eye, and right half of the lips. By seeming to escape the format, the "peeled back" areas seem to project into the viewer's space. The rectangles that reveal the younger-looking colored face provide unity of shape and color. In spite of the symmetrical nature of the faces, the design is asymmetrically balanced. The two smaller horizontal rectangles on the top half of the composition are grounded by a heavier, vertical rectangle at the bottom that extends to the edge of the format. Color is balanced by the fact that the eye on the left, a strong focal point, is counteracted by two larger areas of color on the right.
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