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 ...

Some of our more senior experienced readers may remember a toy called the Spirograph. In case you don’t, it’s a geometric shape drawing toy. The way it works is a plastic disc with gear teeth around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Artist Rosemarie Fiore has created a Spirograph on Geekdad scale. If you were ever engaged by the Spirograph drawing toy as a kid (and even if you weren't), you will be enthralled by what Fiore has ...