Japanese Optical and Geometrical Art

Japanese Optical and Geometrical ArtThe 746 designs contained in this volume represent some of the most ingenious and attractive applications of geometrical and optical motifs to be found today. Taken from an authentic, modern Japanese work, they are an intriguing new source of unique design elements for artists, designers, and illustrators. The designs employ circles, dots, squares, ellipses, curves, lines, angles, complete alphabets, and numbers in a seeming infinitude of balance,

With the charm of words like these

but stories that have something to say to the intelligent reader

widely considered the greatest comic opera ever written

and students for its richness of detail and the brilliance of its author’s obvious genius for research and criticism

translations

and other standards

streetcleaners

GM's Futurama ride

self-working card

usually in various combinations: daisies

henry wotton

"Some of the quotations are a bit racy but they give the book a wonderful flavor