Japanese design company Nendo has an elegant snow globe that slowly lets its ‘snow’ reveal transparent objects inside.

With hidden transparent layers, the ‘snow’ slowly falls on them, which reveals them the way a real snowstorm might.

From rising steps to snowflake shapes to a smiley face, the globes feel simple yet magical.

Immediately after shaking the snow globe, nothing else is visible other than the falling snow.

As the snow slowly piles up, a vague outline begins to appear.

When the snow is completely piled up, the motif emerges clearly in white, and the lower part of the object without snow looks like its shadow. 

Image 3 from Akihiro Yoshida's invisible snow globe series — a transparent globe that appears empty until shaken, at which point falling snow reveals a hidden miniature object inside, photographed on a Nikon D850 against a clean background to heighten the magical effect of the concealed object's gradual emergence in the swirling white
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