Often when describing patterns, they are placed in one of two categories: organic or geometric. Organic designs are ones ...

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 cover of the July 9th issue of the international journal Science is adorned with a Romanesco cauliflower, which has a fractal-like appearance. The fractal-like florets of the Romanesco cauliflower ...

Infinitely many copies of a 13-sided shape can be arranged with no overlaps or gaps in a pattern that never repeats. David Smith, Joseph Samuel Myers, Craig S. Kaplan and Chaim Goodman-Strauss (CC BY ...

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 ...