Dutch Benedictine architect and monk Dom Hans van der Laan (1904–1991) developed his body of work on the base of a system of proportions he had … [Read more...]
Ryan Carl, Grid Forms Study 02 (2020)
After Circle Study 07, the second work by designer Ryan Carl that we feature here on Socks is a sequence of geometric operations on grid forms … [Read more...]
Hartmut Böhm’s Sistematic Principles and Magnetic Fields
Hartmut Böhm is a German artist whose work spans four decades and who joined avant-garde artistic movements such as Neue Tendenzen, a German approach … [Read more...]
“Visual Induction”: Works by Franco Grignani
Franco Grignani was a hugely influential graphic designer and artistic director who also experimented with photography and painting. Born in Pieve … [Read more...]
120 Variations on the Platonic Solids: ‘Perspectiva Corporum Regularium‘ by Wenzel Jamnitzer
The 1586 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, (Perspective of the Regular Solids) is a study of the five Platonic solids modified, stellated and … [Read more...]
Simmetry and Alignments: The Temple of Horus in Edfu
One of the best preserved temples in Egypt is devoted to the falcon god Horus and was built between 237 and 57 BCE during the Ptolemaic Period. … [Read more...]
Richard Giblett’s Architectural Algorithms
Richard Giblett (B.1966, Hong Kong), an artist living and working in Melbourne, creates bi and three-dimensional works as explorations of urban … [Read more...]