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 ...

When I was a kid, some of my favorite rainy-day activities were simple, creative, tactile, and meditative, involving pens and ...

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 ...

Wikipedia describes Spirograph as a “geometric drawing device that produces mathematical roulette curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids.” While that all sounds very ...

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 ...

Late last year at a craft show, [hahabird] and a friend came across a laser-cut Spirograph and they both had a go at it. After mocking his friend’s lack of fine motor skills, [hahabird] was struck ...

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 ...