When a British engineer named Denys Fisher introduced the first Spirograph set at a toy fair in 1965, he tapped into a demographic of non-artists who really wanted to create art. Those sprocketed ...

Spirograph, the strangely soothing mathematical drawing toy, has an online counterpart where you can doodle whirls and curves to your heart’s content. Remember Spirograph? The toy set that came with ...

This spring, South End artist and maker Jake Blend’s daughter, Alexis, was playing with sidewalk chalk. Specifically, she was trying to draw some sort of “tear in reality,” Blend told Seven Days ...

Dominating a whole room, it looks far too unwieldy to draw a geometric picture with a small ballpoint pen. But this giant Spirograph graphic images that are both huge and unique each time. Swedish ...

If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, chances are you’ve spent hours tracing out intricate patterns using the pens and gears of a Spirograph kit. Simple as those parts may be, they’re actually a very ...

It may look identical to the spirograph patterns created by children - but in fact this incredible image shows the path of a space telescope. It shows NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which ...