One of the world’s largest glass mosaic murals is mounted on the west-facing wall of Villa Harvey Mandel, a St. Vincent de Paul Village affordable housing complex, in San Diego, California, USA. Continue reading Villa Harvey Mandel
Relieve explores the possibilities of sculpting the face of tiles to create a three-dimensional aspect that maximises the impact of light. Continue reading Surface Sculpture
Pieza Blanda explores the possibilities of modular factory-finished mosaic elements which can be easily laid on site to create complex geometric patterns. Continue reading Factory Finish
Porous pavements have been exercising the imagination of designers and planners for decades. The concept is now been taken forward be Alicer. Continue reading Porous Pavements
Interca brings the demountable ceramic tile floor one stage further. The system uses a rubber mat, with extremely accurate “grout” lines as a substrate. Continue reading Glueless Grids
Iconos investigates both the possibility of tile as a medium for signage, and then takes the resultant designs forward as a decorative device. Continue reading Ceramic Sign Language
Loop is just one of the many innovative tile forms that have emerged from ceramic student projects and manufacturers R&D departments in recent years. Continue reading Surprise Sprocket
“I specialised in ceramics, finding that there was an immediacy with clay I couldn’t find in other materials. I expect it is something to do with my Indian background.” Lubna Chowdhary Continue reading Hand-made Heirlooms
At the Tile UK Awards 2000, Katy’s Line won the award for Best Wall Tile for Arché, a stunning series of porcelain tiles featuring Etruscan and Egyptian relief motifs picked out in gold. Continue reading Etruscan Exhibit
At Cersaie 2005 Italian mosaic company Aquae Musivae displayed a mosaic-covered vintage Fiat 500. Continue reading Instant Italy
Kaza Concrete’s Florentin tile is based on the kind of medieval architectural ornamentation used in monastery cloisters. Continue reading Tetragonal Florets
Provenza’s W-Age was the first tile I had seen to offer a cross-section of the trunk to display the very heart of the tree. Continue reading Concentric Rings
Viva’s Prét a Porter range of 200 by 400mm white bodied single fired wall tiles was inspired by the discipline of bespoke tailoring. Continue reading Fashion Statement
Edilcuoghi’s Moire design played with the characteristic converging and diverging waves of lines created in the paper printing process when a previously printed image is re-scanned. Continue reading Two-tone Moire
In 2014 Israeli manufacturer Decotal came up with a tile collection that combined concrete and metal. The range’s use of engineered polymer concrete (EPC) was claimed as a first for the tile industry. Continue reading Decotal Diorama
The technology exists to make semi-transparent, photoluminescent, tiles that can be artificially backlit or lit be the sun’s rays. Continue reading Bathed In Light
Designed by Teruo Yasuda, Inax’s Dent Cube is a three-dimensional ‘mosaic’ wall tile range that combine glass and porcelain at different depths to create a truly unique effect. Continue reading Dent Cube by INAX
What is being billed as the largest glass mosaic mural in the world has been installed Caracas, Venezuela by Mateo Manaure. Continue reading Maestro Mateo Manaure
Kenneth Clark was a superb colourist, part artist, part alchemist; a clear-sighted designer, and virtually single-handedly reinvented the form and function of tiles for modern times. Continue reading Kenneth Clark: An Appreciation
Lea Ceramiche presented its latest collections – Pixel and Nest, design by HOK Product Design and Type-32 Slimtech, design by Diego Grandi – in a thought-provoking installation called Urban and Domestic Landscapes at Milan Design Week 2014. Continue reading Pixel and Nest
