Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972)

In 1963 the N.V. Verenigde Blikfabriek (United Tin Can Producers) in Doesburg and Krommenie, The Netherlands commissioned M. C. Escher to design a candy tin.

He designed an icosahedron with sea shell and starfish - a polychrome photolithographic process print on pressed metal with hinged top.

"The design is based on Sketch #42 (Shells and Starfish). The design of the tin can is equivalent to a tessellation of the sphere. The can has the form of a regular icosahedron with 20 triangular faces. Each vertex is covered by a starfish which shows 5-fold symmetry and in the interior of each triangular face three shells are arranged so they have 3-fold rotational symmetry"

D. Schattschneider, Visions of Symmetry, pg 247, 295