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Geometee

Online geometric generative pattern editor created for tshirts in mind. Several presets available for customization, including text editing.

Try it out for yourself here

Digital Merzbau

Chinese project combines art, 3D printing, geometry and recursion:

Merzbau is a project by a German artist Kurt Schwitters began in 1923 in Hanover for a series of room transformation of his house. With art of collage, restructuring process, he re-used the discarded building materials from which made into furniture, walls to ceiling, creating a form of decorative and structural integration, basically following a certain design rules. Today, in the computational context, we tried to create a series of our own logic from the prototype “Merzbau”.

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Rhizome: Prosthetic Knowledge Picks: Arrays and Matrices

A collection of examples from the Prosthetic Knowledge Tumblr archive on installation artworks which can be characterized by geometric or networked arrangement.

You can read more at Rhizome here

Geometric Sandcastles

A Flickr photoset showcasing the sand castles created by box builder:

TIME WELL SPENT I always have these ideas that I want to try but somehow in the attempt to get something done by the end of the day I turn towards my old standby solutions. I need to spend 6 weeks on the beach all at once. As it is I only get a day here and there and go whole years without building anything. If I could manage that I might get somewhere new.

You can see much more here

Daniel Libeskind’s “Micromegas” (1979) 

Series of drawings which have the impression of architectural style and chaotic geometry - via socks studio:

From a post on the architectural forum “Pushpull Bar”:

Early in his career Libeskind produced two suites of drawings which reflected his thinking about the nature of architectural space: Micromegas and Chamberworks. Developed from his interest in geometry, Micromegas could be considered an alternative blueprint, whilst Chamberworks seems to explore the interaction between architecture and music, deeply rooted in his background and arguably one of his greatest influences. Both are clearly the basis on which Libeskind’s theatrical, geometrically complex architecture was developed and it is remarkable how his vision, borne in these drawings, have been realised in his projects.

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Further Abstracts by Alma Alloro

Geometric abstract animated Gifs formed with graph paper and coloured pens:

“Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro’s later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany. In pen drawings on architectural paper, later developed into short frenetic animation pieces, Alloro revives the Bauhaus movement’s celebrated core symbols (the triangle, square and circle), only to subvert their refined ideology of functional beauty. Replacing iconic solid colors with a hyper-saturated radiance, the bare technical grid-aesthetics of these corrupted Bauhaus designs render the modern myth of functionality obsolete. Lacking a decisive objective or directing ideology, Alloro’s practice parades these founding modernistic national elements into an amusing low-tech salad of dysfunctional glitch. Just like the action of a frustrated web user, stubbornly re-clicking on a computer icon whose link is broken, the line between distinct function and abstract causality breaks down.” — Gabriel S. Moses

There are 6 of them (and better quality as the examples above diminished from reducing the file size), but you can check them all here

Via Today and Tomorrow

New Work From Viktor Timofeev

Artist inspired by 3D gaming architecture has taken a new direction in his paintings. Before, it was much closer to wireframes, bold geometric angular shapes and light washes. Now, whilst still retaining his eye for ‘cyber-architecture’, has upgraded his pallette to create richer abstract worlds.

You can follow his Tumblr blog here

The Paintings of Michael Dotson 

Portfolio of spatial and geometric compositions within a room-like setting.

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Geometry Daily 

Tumblr blog by designer @tilman who creates a geometric composition everyday:

Why are you doing this?
I love it. I get a serious flow when I draw simple shapes, combine them and experiment until they start to “sing”. I’m a designer with all my heart. It’s an experiment. A journey into a world of possibilities.
Also I am currently taking a year off of “normal” agency design work. Until September 2012 I stay at home and look after my two little kids while my wife returned to her full-time job. Doing this graphics project besides my dad duties will keep me on my designer’s toes.

Why geometry?
I love geometry. Lines, curves, rectangles, circles, triangles are a simplification of our real world but also their building blocks. Geometry, like physics or mathematics, defines how our world is constructed. I find endless beauty in this construction. I see god in there.

You can see more and follow the blog here

Codeable Objects 

Processing coding library for designing physical objects like the ones pictured above using geometric computation:

Codeable Objects is a library for Processing that enables novice coders, designers and artists to rapidly design, customize and construct an artifact using geometric computation and digital fabrication. The programming methods provided by the library allow the user to program a variety of structures and designs with simple code and geometry. When the user compiles their code, the software outputs tool paths based on their specifications, which can be used in conjunction with digital fabrication tools to build their object. 

More about how this works can be found at High-Low Tech here

16th Century Geometric Perspective Illustrations

Found at BibliOdyssey, a collection of mathematical illustrations found in an obscure paper manuscript.

The album of geometric and perspective drawings (Codex Guelf 74. 1. Aug. fol.) from the 1500s is available online from Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel.

It consists of more than thirty watercolour sketches of polyhedra^ or, as the Latin title on one of the images above has it, perspectives of the regular solids (a standard descriptive name, originating with Plato and Euclid).

More information and examples can be found at BibliOdyssey here

The Geometric Landscape via BibliOdyssey

Scans from a 16th Century book on geometry

The artist responsible for the remarkable collection of geometric designs seen above and below is Lorenz Stöer (c.1537-c.1621), about whom little is known with certainty. He was born in Nuremberg and moved to Augsburg in 1557. He is variously described as a painter and a draughtsman and he may have been the son of a woodcut artist.

Until relatively recently, Stöer’s principal legacy was thought to have been the eleven woodcut illustrations seen above that show combinations of regular and semi-regular solids in landscapes with fanciful ornamental shapes. This suite of eccentric designs was published under the title, ‘Geometria et Perspectiva’, in 1567.

More information and images can be found here

HEXAGRAM PARADE, a contemporary graphic translation of the philosophical assumptions in I-CHING’s formulation of the hexagram sequence from spanish artist CLARA GALLEGO BERNALDO de QUIROS via neochaEDGE

This is pretty damn good graphic design / illustration:

Spanish visual artist Clara Gallego Bernaldo de Quiros (longest name ever?) spent 4 years studying / obsessing over the Chinese masterpiece “I Ching,” also known as “The Book of Changes,” one of the oldest Chinese classic texts.

As a result of this research the artist has developed the project HEXAGRAM PARADE, a contemporary graphic translation of the philosophical assumptions in I-Ching’s formulation of the hexagram sequence. The series is made up of 64 pieces, below we’ve shared a few of our favorites.

As I have already said, the collection is great - there are many more examples to be found here