Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Is this cool or what?

I found this story on the New York Times online yesterday. I'd never looked at T Magazine before. It seems to be a blog within the online newspaper. Anyway, there was this story about pattern magnets designed by a Japanese computer scientist who also teaches at Musashino Art University by the name of Asao Tokolo. I was smitten.





The Tokolo Pattern Magnets can be arranged in an endless number of combinations and every edge will always match every other edge. The mind boggles. Immediately I started thinking about plugging the designs into a weave analysis program and coming up with tons of really beautiful fabric designs.

If I could only figure out where to get a set of these I would be a happy camper. So far, my web searches have yielded a bunch of Japanese language websites. Sigh.

2 comments:

Sue said...

I googled around and found this link: http://www.wargo-nippon.com/brand/?pbid=91&psid=3, but I can't tell if that gives you just 1 magnet for $12, or a box of them.

You know about zazzle.com, right? Where you can get the image you want printed on the surface you want? (But I don't want to advocate stealing some one else's artwork!)

These are cool! Good luck!

iowaweaver said...

Sue - Thank you for the wargo website! I clicked on each of the designs, presented in Volumes, and got pop-ups with a photo of the actual product. It's a set of four magnets. Vol. 1 is sold out. But I think I'm going to order Vol. 2.
Cool!