M.C. Escher's Word-Puzzle Wrapping Paper for De Bijenkorf
Proceedings of Bridges 2025: Mathematics and the Arts
Pages 411–414
Short Papers
Abstract
In 1933, M.C. Escher designed gift-wrapping paper for the De Bijenkorf department store. He described it as a “word puzzle”; it is a puzzle to solve how it was produced from a small woodblock.