#spirograph design

[ashleybuetheartist]

Another spirograph 🖤🖤🖤

[juandrawn]

Spirograph Gordian Knot

This tshirt design was generated using my spirograph software.

This is what the output from the spirograph.

This result came after some line editing in Adobe Illustrator and put through another software process.

Here is the final image. Adobe Photoshop was used to add color and shadows.

You can purchase this design from threadless!

[esmartuniverse]

Radiant Red Mandala

This image features a captivating radiant mandala design centered in a deep red background. The mandala is composed of intricate geometric patterns, glowing softly with a bright core that radiates light. The surrounding area is filled with rich, dark hues, creating a striking contrast that draws the viewer's eye towards the center. The overall effect is both mesmerizing and meditative, making it suitable for artistic and spiritual contexts.

Created By EsmArt!

[carebearsandkawaiistuff76]

Homestuck spirographic logo

I made this Spirographic logo for a poster because it was fun making homemade HS posters. For those who have color ink in their printers at home or office, you can print it out as a poster at www.blockposters.com.

If your printer doesn’t have any color ink, you can treat this drawing as a coloring page.

[spacevoyagerx]

Spirograph Nebula

The Spirograph Nebula, also known as NGC 6914, is a region of star formation located in the constellation Cygnus.

It is notable for its intricate and colorful patterns that resemble the designs created by a spirograph, a geometric drawing toy.

NGC 6914 is of particular interest to astronomers because it provides insights into the processes of star formation and the evolution of galaxies.

Credits: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) and Arsen R. Hajian (USNO)

[ashleybuetheartist]

Just this one page got chaotic 🖤🖤🖤

[rhysintherain]

This shirt isn't really worth putting the effort into, but I wanted to try some things out with Spirograph designs and veregated thread.

Working on a bigger, more complicated design near the hem.

For the record this shirt was also a casualty of Pixie being a problem child. It also has paint stains on it though, so not completely her fault.

But it's light and comfortable, so we're fixing it and testing some designs.

[justforbooks]

Bill Dare

Comedy producer behind many popular satire shows, notably Spitting Image, The Mary Whitehouse Experience and Dead Ringers

Bill Dare, who has died aged 64 as a passenger in a road accident, was an influential force in TV and radio satire for almost 40 years. He was the puppet master – literally – producing eight series of Spitting Image for ITV in the 1990s, then figuratively in creating Dead Ringers for BBC radio.

“We know how far we can go – as long as we are only upsetting some of the people some of the time,” Dare said during his time on Spitting Image (1990-94). He held back on featuring Woody Allen when the Hollywood star was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter Dylan (“It is a very difficult, very sensitive subject,” he said). But he had no qualms about introducing Jesus Christ as a drug-smoking hippy, only to discover that it provoked protest from both Christians and Muslims (who revere Christ as a holy prophet). Days after saying that “only nutters” would be offended, Dare retired the rubber puppet. “We upset a lot of people … so we never used it again,” he explained. “We do take notice of public opinion.”

Spitting Image, created by Martin Lambie-Nairn, a graphic designer and branding expert, with the puppeteers Peter Fluck and Roger Law, began in 1984. Its often cruel caricatures of politicians, the royal family and celebrities helped it to win an International Emmy award two years running.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was portrayed as an elderly gin drinker, while Margaret Thatcher was seen as a tyrannical, cigar-chomping cross-dresser and Ronald Reagan as a bumbling fool with “Nuke” and “Nurse” red buttons next to his bed.

Dare’s stint as producer coincided with a change in the political landscape, when Thatcher was succeeded as Conservative party leader – and prime minister – by John Major. Dare initially made Thatcher “less extreme … rather than mad” and replaced much of the slapstick with more subtle sketches, such as an awkward Major – dressed in shades of grey – eating peas for dinner in boring conversation with his wife, Norma.

A shrewd talent-spotter known for the calm he brought to productions, Dare brought in – alongside well-seasoned voice artists such as Steve Nallon, Harry Enfield and Steve Coogan – Jon Culshaw, who mimicked Major and many other characters, from Michael Portillo to Liam Gallagher. Alistair McGowan was another he hired.

Culshaw – who described him as “the wisest comedy alchemist” – found wider fame when Dare devised and produced the Radio 4 programme Dead Ringers, starting in 2000 as a replacement for the satirical sketch show Week Ending. The impressionist added Tony Blair, George W Bush, Alan Sugar and many others to his repertoire, while another contributor to Spitting Image, Jan Ravens, made her mark in Dead Ringers mimicking Madonna, Helen Mirren and the news presenter Fiona Bruce. Culshaw also read the end credits, finishing with Dare’s name delivered in rasping tones in the guise of Tom Baker.

The programme was groundbreaking in including Radio 4 shows and continuity announcers among its targets. It ran until 2007, with a TV version airing concurrently (2002-07), and returned in 2014 to radio, where it completed its 25th series last year.

A stage version was toured across the country between 2019 and 2021, by which time Ravens’ characters included Theresa May and Angela Merkel.

Dare was born in London to the actor Peter Jones, best remembered for bringing laughter to TV sitcoms such as The Rag Trade and the radio gameshow Just a Minute, and his wife, the American actor and model Jeri Sauvinet. At the age of nine he won a spirograph drawing kit after sending a limerick to the comic Whizzer and Chips. On leaving William Ellis school, Camden, he studied philosophy at Manchester University, where Ben Elton was a friend.

He found his first broadcasting successes on Radio 4. After writing the Thirty Minute Theatre play Barker, Belgrave and Bigweed (1987), about two school friends’ differing recollections of a classmate, he became producer of the theatre quiz series Prompt! (1987-88), Week Ending (1988-89) and The News Quiz (1988).

Then he created and produced the late-night Radio 1 programme The Mary Whitehouse Experience (1989-90), a topical sketch show featuring primarily two double acts, David Baddiel and Rob Newman, and Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis – who had all met while working on Spitting Image. A spin-off BBC television series followed (1990-92).

While on Spitting Image himself, Dare produced the BBC TV version of Loose Talk (1994), billed as “a cross between Question Time and Whose Line Is It Anyway?”, with comedians commenting on the news. Armando Iannucci had previously produced the radio version.

Dare also produced the radio programmes The Now Show (1998-2024), a satirical mix of sketches, standup and songs hosted by Punt and Dennis; I’ve Never Seen Star Wars (2008-15), challenging celebrities to try out new experiences, co-created with Marcus Brigstocke and also on TV (2009-11); The Secret World (2009-14), with impressionists such as Culshaw putting famous people in bizarre situations; and Please Use Other Door (2020-23), featuring satire from talent new to radio.

He scripted the Radio 4 sketch show Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (1996-99), which included McGowan and Ravens, and exercised his mind to the full when writing Brian Gulliver’s Travels (2011-2012), starring Neil Pearson as a documentary presenter finding himself in a hospital’s secure unit after claiming to have experienced a string of bizarre adventures.

Between 2017 and 2020, Dare took to the stage with Culshaw for a tour of The Great British Take Off, an unscripted show with them fielding questions from the audience.

Dare is survived by his wife, Lucy (nee Jagger), whom he married in 2020, and a daughter, Bex, from an eight-year relationship with Mary Downes, a TV director, as well as his brother, Charlie, and sister, Selena.

🔔 Bill Dare (William Dare Jones), producer and writer, born 16 May 1960; died 1 March 2025

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[mrvelocipede]

This one is a folded card, so you could theoretically write a message inside, then the recipient could tear off the front panel along the perforations. The designs were made using spirograph (my own custom version) and rubber stamps. Some of the stamping was done on sticker paper, which was then stuck on top of the other elements.

[esmartuniverse]

Vintage Floral Symphony

A giant central flower is surrounded by smaller floral motifs in this design, which features a symmetrical floral pattern. Warm, gentle tones predominate in the color scheme, which is mostly composed of pink, orange, and yellow hues. Its retro vibe and watercolor-like texture make it ideal for accessories, clothing, and home decor products. This design gives every good a hint of refinement and nostalgia.

Created By EsmArt!

[armoreddragon]

how did you first get into making this stuff? do you enjoy it?

There's a lot of possible answers here.

For a couple years after college, I worked at a laser engraving and cutting shop. Leather was a material we knew we could cut, but nobody ever asked for it, so I looked up some basic info and put together some masks as demo pieces. Then I got fired for unrelated reasons, but decided to keep going with the masks on my own. A decade later, I’m still going.

I've always enjoyed making things. The focused calm of working a craft, the challenge of finding the problems that need solving, followed by the satisfaction of holding in your hands something that hadn't exited before. It’s hard to beat that feeling. If you haven’t done it for a while, I highly recommend making a habit of it.

Sometime in college I realized that if I kept making things just for myself, I would eventually run out of both space in my closet and money in my bank account. So I took the best photos I could of what I had, and started posting it up on Etsy.

In high school ceramics class, I had an idea to try and make a flexible dragon skin out of little bits of clay, all glazed differently. I had no idea how to do this. A friend of mine was like "Yo it sounds like you want to look up how to make chainmail for that." She was right.

I work in architecture by day, and the decision to do that was unrelated but definitely related to my crafting obsession. Designing a kitchen, a café, a house, takes months or years of work, most of which is tedious details like picking tile patterns or looking up exactly what order to layer different sealant tapes to make sure the walls are watertight. Designing a crafting project gives me a creative outlet that is immediate. I can sit down for an afternoon and take an idea from a sketch on trace paper, to a final mask formed up out of leather. There's an excitement to that. A reminder that, yes, I can make cool stuff quickly, without needing to sink two years into a project.

For a while I worked to teach myself to draw. I managed to get pretty decent at sketching from life, with a moderate understanding of anatomy and perspective. I liked art, so I thought I wanted to make art. But I struggled with it. If I was drawing something from my imagination, no matter how well I managed to put the lines down on the paper, I would ultimately look at it and just be sad that it didn't exist in the real world. So eventually I gave up on the drawing part, and focused on the part I seemed to actually care about.

I can't envision a version of myself that doesn't make things. I think on some fundamental level, I measure my worth as a person based on what I put forth into the world. I don't know what else to do.

When you decide to turn a hobby into a business, it of course takes some of the delight away. It's no longer something you do when you want to relax and have some fun. It becomes an obligation, to make and ship orders on time, to pack up your stuff and bring it to craft fairs, to track your expenses and file your taxes, to stay on top of the constantly changing social media landscape. But it also lights a fire under your ass. You can't just keep making the same thing you made three years ago–you have to keep making new stuff, keep improving your techniques, keep reaching for new ideas that have never been made before. You lose some of the joy, but you gain a lot of satisfaction.

All through my childhood I filled my closet with little handicrafts kits, that I got as gifts or that caught my eye when following my dad to the art store. Calligraphy, wood carving, weaving looms, boondoggles, spirographs, knitting, crochet, fancy nautical knots, sculpey, and more that I can't remember. After all those different things, I’m so glad that I found a couple specific crafts that really grabbed me, that take enough work to develop expertise, that have expansive enough applications and possibilities, that I could devote a decade or more of my time to focusing on them.

I’d been interested in the furry fandom ever since little fantasy reading teenager me tried looking for stories where the dragons were the main characters, and I found people online who were doing just that. There’s a powerful do-it-yourself attitude that’s baked into the core of the fandom: The world isn’t giving us the art that we want, so we’re going to make it ourselves. I keep having ideas for things that I want, that don’t exist yet. If I want them to exist, I have to be the one to make them.

My dad was a photographer, and I spent many childhood afternoons with him in his darkroom in the basement, delightedly washing negatives, turning them gently over in their canisters of chemicals, sitting still in the dark as Dad unspooled the sensitive film, squinting in the red light as the projected images magically re-emerged on the clean white paper. What could be more amazing, more normal, more right, than having your own little space to work such magic for yourself.

In about 2008 or 9 I ordered my first batch of metal scales, with the idea of trying to make a dragon tail in time for Halloween. It took probably a couple weeks to figure out how to make it, and within a week I had thought of how to do it better and disassembled the entire thing. By the 3rd or 4th time I'd rebuilt it, I thought that it was probably good enough that I wouldn't feel embarrassed to post it online and see if someone might want to buy it.

Of course I love working on these things I make. But I don't think that's exactly why I make them.

[verreerrant]

A couple questions about the MLB designs: - Plagg and Chat's tails both seem to have branching/fractal motifs going on, is that, like, symbolic of something? Ladybug has a lot of circles and rose/spirograph type designs, so is it maybe a "complete" and "incomplete" geometery thing? -Just how tall are Lady and Chat in their transformed forms? They seem way taller than their canon counterparts. -Was that rose thing ladybug made that version of her lucky charm?

So! the twin tails and twin bells that happen are because of Duality. Adrien and Chat are not the same person. Its only when Adrien transforms that he is completly Free of his sentimonster orders from Gabriel, Emilie, Nathalie, etc. Plagg has twin tail because he opens that pathway and because of how split destruction is as a concept.

They are both very tall. at bit above 2 meters (idk above 7 feet). Lady is a bit taller but that's just because Chat slouches, otherwise they are the same height

Lady Luck has Sacred Geometry in her design! Its what is shown in her lucky charm doodle and some other places. Its a mathematical language that's basically shows the blueprint of creation, very cool stuff. I am currently using it just as a symbol representing Creation