When it comes to design, the golden ratio is mostly bullshit. Though designers sometimes use it, there’s just no proof people prefer that precise spatial ratio in their buildings, interfaces, or art.

The golden ratio is obtained by looking for a particular rectangle. Let us imagine a rectangle of length b and width a. Inside this rectangle, we draw a square (an x a). We are left with a rectangle ...

The Golden Ratio, a hallmark of Swiss design and the foundation of everything from Helvetica to Le Corbusier’s meticulous architecture, may have been imported from Africa. Design remains a largely ...

Leonardo da Vinci may have created beautiful paintings, but he wouldn’t have been much of a web designer. That’s the implication of a study into how the design of a website affects how easy it is to ...

When artist and architect Rafael Araujo needs inspiration to create a new illustration, all he has to do is look out the window of his studio in Caracas, Venezuela. He can instantly spot what he ...

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Following on from our previous article which explains what the Golden Ratio is and how it relates to Fibonacci numbers and sequences. This guide provides more insight into how you can actually draw ...

The Golden Ratio, described by Leonardo da Vinci and Luca Pacioli as the Divine Proportion, is an infinite number often found in nature, art and mathematics. It's a pattern in pinecones, seashells, ...

“I am a Mechanical Engineering undergrad at UC Berkeley and I got this tattoo about a month ago. It’s the golden ratio in the shape of a rectangle, with the ratio of the sides of the rectangle ...

Designers, creatives and artists may be interested in a new golden ratio ruler set created by designer Ming Lo and now available as the Phi Ruler via Kickstarter. Building on the design of the ...