Remember the Spirograph toys you had when you were a kid, which let you draw mathematically precise hypotrochoids and epitrochoids (or, as I called them, “neat shapes”) without cracking a sweat? What ...

Exhibited at MINDCRAFT 11 earlier this month at the annual Milan Design Week, Eske Rex's room-sized drawing machine looks like a medieval torture device, bulky and unwieldy, rough and unfinished. But ...

Ohio University printmaking MFA student Robert Howsare hacked two ordinary turntables to make Spirograph images. The simple art project, named "Drawing Apparatus," cost him just $50. "The turntables ...

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 ...

Remember that nifty Cycloid Drawing Machine making the internet rounds back in March? Its inventor, Joe Freedman, is back with a smaller, simpler version called the DuoGraph, making it easier than ...

If you despise the monotonous and repetitive motions needed to produce beautiful designs on a Spirograph, just do what student Robert Howsare did. For just $50 he turned a couple of old turntables ...

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 ...