Spirograph

The thing had been called a Spirograph, and it had produced geometric patterns almost as complicated as this one.

Lunatics Denton, Bradley 1996

To Garrison, the Spirograph is a form of "doodling."

timesunion.com: Local Breaking News 2009

The harmonograph was a popular 19th-century parlor pastime that created art similar to a Spirograph, but with a much wider range of variables.

Boing Boing 2009

Lines connected circles and stars on the chart like a pattern sketched by a Spirograph.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

In the living room are three large prints by Mr. Garten—digital renderings of sections of his large sculptures that look a little like Spirograph drawings, in aqua, orange and yellow.

Where Art and Architecture Collide Nancy Keates 2012

It has a fascinating mix of techniques, from dirt-brown washes worthy of Arshile Gorky in the 1940s, to black-and-white lashings that could be by Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline in the '50s; from spray-painty blurs out of graffiti culture to scraped rainbows of paint that come straight out of the high postmodernism of Gerhard Richter, plus black polka dots on pink and passages of Spirograph swirls.

New 'Vantage Point' show at American Indian museum shows off symbolic power Blake Gopnik 2010

Spirograph season is upon us, so remember to get your Spiro-inoculation shot this year?

Classic Ad for Spirograph. How the Gang Caught Spiromania? - The Retroist 2010

Lines connected circles and stars on the chart like a pattern sketched by a Spirograph.

Chocolate & Vicodin Jennette Fulda 2011

I remember spending hours on the Spirograph – is that what it was called?

Sunday Scribblings: Toys 2009

I mean, their hair looks like it was designed on a Spirograph in the dark, then carelessly flopped on to them from atop a rickety step ladder, while their fans are all exactly the kind of mimsy mugginses who "Instagram" pictures of wheelie bins to stick on their Tumblr, because, you know, it's properly, like, photography, yeah?

This week's new singles 2012