During World War I, the brutal reality of naval combat forced strategists to rethink how ships could survive enemy attacks.
As seen on ships like the French light cruiser Glorie, the camouflage scheme known as "Dazzle" confounded Axis forces throughout the war. Hiding warships at sea is a difficult task. The sea is flat, ...
Tauba Auerbach will follow Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, and Carlos Cruz-Diez by transforming a fireboat in the avant-garde style devised during World War I. Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction Chromatique à ...
To create her dazzle camouflage design, Auerbach used a process known as marbling, or swirling pools of ink on paper to generate fluid patterns Nicholas Knight / Courtesy of the Public Art Fund This ...
A new analysis of 105-year-old data on the effectiveness of "dazzle" camouflage on battleships in World War I by Aston University researchers Professor Tim Meese and Dr. Samantha Strong has found that ...
The general goal of camouflage is to be invisible. Back during World War I, however, hundreds of Allied ships went to battle painted in bright geometric designs that were anything but subtle. This ...
It comes in black and white stripes but the players will match it with plain shorts. The design is officially termed “hacked” or “disruptive” rather than “zebra” and there’s been plenty of testing to ...