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Cool! From a 1904 Dutch cocoa package design, I've now learned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
by helloworld 9y ago
Cool! From a 1904 Dutch cocoa package design, I've now learned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect
- jacquesm 9y agoThe only reason I know about it is because I'm Dutch and my grandmother would serve me cocoa from powder in tin with that image on it.
- helloworld 9y agoThe visual memories of childhood can be powerful. For some reason -- I know it's a stretch! -- this reminds me of the Froebel blocks that Frank Lloyd Wright played with as a kid: Wright, who died in 1959, often spoke and wrote eloquently about the influence of the blocks in his understanding of design. In his 1957 book, ''A Testament,'' he wrote: ''I sat at the little kindergarten table top and played with the cube, the sphere and the triangle. I soon became susceptible to constructive pattern evolving in everything I saw. I learned to see this way, and when I did, I did not care to draw casual incidentals of nature. I wanted to design.'' Some architecture observers have noted the similarities between the block structures Froebel designed and the eminent architect's buildings. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-takes-form-again.html http://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/13/style/the-froebel-gift-tak...