Science tells us the object you see here cannot exist in the real world. It’s an illusion. An Escherian ruse. Ulrich Schwanitz says, “Pfft.” Now, normally, when people say they’ve designed a 3-D ...

This is just awesome: Australian artist Brian McKay and architest Ahmad Abas were commissioned to create a new monument for Perth. The result? A sculpture in the real world of one of the most famous ...

Hungarian designer Martzi Hegedus created the font Frustro, a font face that will make the impossible possible. Frustro is based on the Penrose triangle. The Penrose triangle, also known as the ...

Here's what the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvard did. In 1934, he got himself a pen and paper and drew four cubes, like this. He called this final version "Impossible Triangle of Opus 1 No. 293aa." I ...

Frustro is a typeface designed by Martzi Hegedűs as an ode to the Penrose triangle Frustro is a typeface designed by Martzi Hegedűs as an ode to the Penrose triangle is a former senior reviewer who ...

In an impossible figure, seemingly real objects—or parts of objects—form geometric relations that physically cannot happen. Dutch artist M. C. Escher, for instance, depicted reversible staircases and ...