By focusing on their distinctive shapes, you can play around with the spaces in and around the flamingos, known as 'negative shapes' or spaces – we’ll use this technique as a way of forming ...

Positive shapes are the shapes of actual objects. Negative shapes are the areas between these objects. The way positive and negative shapes act together creates the atmosphere of a composition.

Sfoglini and "The Sporkful" podcast creator teamed up to make two new pasta shapes. The shapes, quattrotini and vesuvio, are served in Italy but hadn't yet hit the US until January. I tried both ...

But recently, during an annual health check, I got to see my heart for the first time. Seeing the shape of my pumping organ and listening to my heartbeat brought me to tears. After the exam ...

How few corners can a shape have and still tile the plane?” mathematician Gábor Domokos asked me over pizza. His deceptively simple question was about the geometry of tilings, also called ...

A positive shape has a negative shape that surrounds it. Adding light and shade on a flat, two-dimensional shape can give the illusion of a three-dimensional form. Aino-Maija Metsola’s textile ...