Dating back to the early Islamic period, these designs were developed using a set of mathematical principles. Islamic art was characterized by utilizing geometric patterns in a distinct manner owing ...

Circles, triangles and squares. One of the first things we learn as children are basic geometric shapes. And they stay with us throughout our lives. Maybe it’s that sense of familiarity that makes ...

The visual arts allows us to understand people of earlier eras: visual literacy reveals many things about what these people did, knew, and believed. Examining the geometric patterns that characterize ...

Although an architectural project comes to life with palpable materials, it is also defined by intangible qualities that give it richness, dynamism, and liveliness. Among them, the interplay of light ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Anyone in doubt that geometric patterns are back in vogue among designers need have looked no further than Design ...

These infinite loop GIFs by Dutch graphic designer Florian de Looij are so beautiful and perfectly crafted that I spent a while trapped inside their geometric patterns and moving colors. Florian de ...

Have you ever felt like the stars are speaking in symbols? That the universe whispers through patterns, numbers, and shapes? Astrology and sacred geometry are two ancient systems that connect us with ...