That child’s drawing of a house, tree, or person may represent more than an element of the refrigerator-as-art-gallery.

The Japanese practice of drawing patterns in sand, known as “karesansui” or “dry landscape” gardening, is often associated with Zen Buddhism. These gardens are designed to embody a sense ...

Researchers have developed an automatic drawing machine that uses pens and pencils to draw metamaterials—artificially engineered composite materials that derive their properties from patterned ...