Tangram Puzzle Brings Back Childhood Memories

When I was a kid, my grandfather kept a Tangram puzzle game on the side table in the kitchen. I played that game all the time with my uncle and cousins when they were around when I was five or six. I crushed at the game, for whatever reason Tangrams are one of the things that always came easy. This meant my uncle (a teenager at the time) would get pissed off and throw the pieces on the floor and refuse to play with me.

This Tangram Puzzle set reminds me of those days of my relatives being frustrated to the point that I’d be forced outside to play. Ah, good times.

If you are unfamiliar with a Tangram, you get a pile of plastic parts with triangular and polygonal parts The goal is to look at an image on a card or box and then try to replicate that image using the shapes. This particular set comes with 12 puzzles ranging in difficulty from making a square to an airplane, and looks like a fun way to spend a little time making your brain work.

The Can You Solve Me Tangram set sells for $40 on Uncommon Goods.

Skutch for Everything Sketching

Skutch is an innovative sketching tool that combines design and geometry in an instinctive manner. Like an extension of one’s hand, its unique shape has been studied to allow the use of all geometrical design functions without limiting creativity. Use it as a cm/in ruler or compass, create perfect perpendicular lines, or 30°, 60° or 90° angles, rounded corners and more with one simplistic solution. See it in action —>

Designers: Laurent St-Val & Marta Paez

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Escher Reptile Flooring: Lizards Under Foot!

If M.C. Escher were still alive today, I’m betting he’d redo all of the floors in his house with these wood tiles…

escher floor tiles

Madrid, Spain flooring contractor Arbore created these awesome hardwood pieces in the form of Escher’s famous interlocking geometric reptiles.

Though if Escher had these in his house, actual lizards would emerge from the edges of the floor when you step on it. He’d also have to cover the walls and the ceilings with these, since I bet there was no difference between those and the floor in his house.

[via Buzzfeed on Facebook]

Graffiti Artist Makes Spray Paint Spirograph

I always loved playing with my Spirograph when I was a little kid. Of course, now with tablet and computer painting apps, it’s hard to imagine going back to such a simple creative plaything. But sometimes, simplicity is fun too. One graffiti artist still loves his Spirograph, and it inspired him to make a giant one.

graffiti spirograph

Using the basic principles behind the original Spirograph, street artist Narcélio Grud bent a large metal rod into a circle, and then attached a rig which allows a set of smaller wheels (made from bicycles) to spin around on the inside and holds the spray can button down. As he turns the wheel, a rotating geometric pattern appears, just like with the original Spirograph toy. Adjusting a couple of bolts that hold the spray can let him create a virtually infinite number of patterns. Here, check it out in action:

While the effect isn’t as precise as using a pen and paper, it’s still a cool idea, and I’d love to see someone make a motorized version of this thing sometime.

[via Rebelart via Nerdcore (DE)]