Happy 2020 (& and new video)
We have been creating short videos to welcome the new year since 2008. This year was no exception. These videos, created on a shoe-string budget, are usually ty...
Category: Puzzles
Fibonacci’s Poem
Fibonacci’s PoemDecember 10, 2019 (!)OneWordIt startsSlow but sureExpanding out numerically, adding moreMarching forward, doing the math, not asking why Knowing...
Happy Thanksgiving
A new design for my favorite holiday of the year. See animated version below. Enjoy Previous designs can be found here and here.
Words in 3 Dimensions
A few weeks ago I started doodling words in 3 dimensions, for no particular reason, and before I knew it I had a bunch of interesting designs. Here is a sample:...
The School Design Game v 1.0
The journey of design is complicated, filled with conundrums —some expected, others not so much. There are many possible strategies to address them ...
Happy New Year (and a new illusory video)
Since 2008 we have been creating short videos to welcome in the New Year. These videos, created on a shoe-string budget, are usually typographical in nature wit...
Creativity and the urban STEM teacher: New publication
I have written previously about the MSUrbanSTEM project and what it has meant to me. Over the past couple of years we have also published about this line of wor...
Ambigrams & Mathematics at the Herberger Young Scholars Academy
The Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy (HYSA) is a school designed for highly gifted students in grades 7-12 affiliated with the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers ...
Fractals, ambigrams and more
Photo & and design © Punya Mishra. The photo of bubbles was taken with cell phone camera (equipped with a macro lens). Fractals are mathematical/geometrica...
Paradoxes, illusions & visual wordplay
Figure 1: Eye-llusion Over the past few months I have been somewhat obsessed with visual illusions, ambiguous images, impossible figures and other such fun stu...