Alexander Calder
Three Black Balls, 1971
Gouache on paper
Ohhh! I love Calder mobiles. I like this even more! I’ve never seen it before.
Source: Let’s risk the ocean
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I love this image by Ashlea O’neill via typo/graphic posters
I like it too. It resembles a Guilloche pattern, sometimes referred to as a geometric lathe… I think.
Calligraphix
Caligraft via notational:A portfolio of typographic experiments using Processing by Ricard Marxer Piñón . Includes source codes.
There are items of a distinctly mathematical and geometric sort here, for those who are so inclined.
Bladstanden (four images of two blades), The Art of Knowledge: Educational Botanical, Amsterdam (1870-1960).
Click through and visit the entire gorgeous collection.
P.S. Thank you, Sheeper! I miss you.
(via sheeper)
Melancholia I
“a frustrated thinker sitting by an uncommon polyhedron”
*UPDATE Now with active inline links!
Analysis of Albrecht Durer’s mysterious polyhedron engraving, and polyhedra in general, may be found via the remarkable pre-Y2K website of George Hart.
