New puzzles: Bioluminescence and Ocean Tapestry

Every holiday season we release new puzzles, this year our new puzzles feature art by Franz Anthony, a scientific illustrator whose work I’ve been following for a long time. Bioluminescence ($60 with 141 coral cut pieces) Ocean Tapestry ($120 with 436 pieces in wave and coral cut) are in the shop now.

I’ve been following the work of Franz Anthony (@franzanth on bluesky) for many years now. Franz is a scientific illustrator I first encountered on Twitter back in the day, thanks to his hilarious and intriguing posts about invertebrates. He also founded #InverteFest, an online event celebrating invertebrates (on bluesky...

Crafting Radiolaria Sculptures – from microscopic life to art

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We’ve created a set of 4 limited edition Radiolarian sculptures that are now available in our shop. These limited edition sculptures are inspired by Radiolaria, microscopic unicellular sea creatures that create skeletons from silica. Their skeletons are among the most beautiful and complex natural microstructures, resembling elaborate filigree or latticework. Artists like us have long been fascinated by Radiolaria dating back to Ernst Haeckel’s drawings in the late 19th century. We studied his drawings alongside scanning electron microscope images to create a series Radiolaria-inspired sculptures exploring their diversity of form.

The video above goes over the process of creating the...

Sources for Keepsake Table Linens

I look forward to it every year, planning a dining room tablescape in anticipation of Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. For the holidays, I prefer classic patterns like tartans or leaf motifs, or something with a little metallic sparkle, but there are no rules as you can scatter festive decor over just about any pattern and make your tablescape chic and unique.

Having a tablecloth or a runner you can decorate with then put away and return to again in seasons to come is a wonderful tradition. I bought a new set of neutral plates recently, these Coupe Dinner Plates in Sand...

Meet the Flummoxagon

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We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexagon frame but there’s a twist, pieces of the same color can’t touch.  

It’s a fiendishly fun mix of Tetris-style block packing and logic-based constraint solving. The game ships with 13 gameboards, featuring puzzles from beginner to advanced, and new boards are added weekly to our website.

You can buy Flummoxagon now in our shop for $45. For the first month, take 20% off with the coupon code FLUMMOX...

Forest Ghosts Printable Art

Fall is here and Halloween is approaching! I created these three printable forest ghost scenes for decorating your spaces. The first print is ‘Forest Ghosts I’ with autumn colors and a vintage vibe, the second print, ‘Forest Ghosts II’ is a bit spookier in black and white, and the third print ‘Curious Ghosts’ is for the kids.

To start decorating for Halloween, download any of these prints, print and frame, then display them on your shelves or mantel. You can download the smaller sizes for free (8×10” and 11×14”). If you want larger sizes, they are for sale for a few...

Weekend Reading 8.31.25

Hello all, happy (almost) fall! We’re still in summer mode around here, although my kids are back at their universities now. The house was full all summer and now it’s empty again. Sigh. It’s cleaner, but a lot quieter.

I did what a lot of empty nesters do, I started moving furniture around. I moved the sofa out of our study and placed my desk under the window so I can work from home when needed. With winter coming, having the electric fireplace nearby will be cozy.

The biggest news is…. I switched law firms. I was offered a new opportunity at...

Closing the Loop: Building Shapes with a Planar Graph

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There’s some fun computational geometry in my latest artwork, and in this article I’ll walk through how I take a scramble of disconnected paths and turn them into closed shapes, using half-edges and a planar graph.

Liberal Arts

For The New York Times: “This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education”, written by Jennifer Frey.

Eyeworks

An illustration for a poster for ‘Eyeworks’, a curated screening series focusing on experimental animation. 

Decentering

For De Volkskrant: Stella Bergsma’s essay on decentering men and putting women into the spotlight.