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Design, Design & Technology, Tile Companies

Emulating Escher

M. C. Escher lives anew in the magic creations of Lisa Schmidt. In her Seattle studio, opened in 2021, sits Good Press Ceramics, a place where the freedom of clay is explored and enjoyed. With huge amounts of freedom from finish, texture, shade, and shape, ceramics offer endless opportunities to learn new skills, hone techniques, and play with new ideas. For Schmidt, ceramics add uncertainty … Continue reading Emulating Escher

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Design, Design & Technology, Weird & Wonderful

A few things that would make fun tiles

Square tiles are all well and good. So are metros, hexagons, fishscales, picket and arabesque tiles, star and cross combos, triangles, diamonds, and circle tiles. But when you’re a tile addict, everything looks like tiles, everything can be tiles. You see a cake and you think it’s a tile, you see a pair of socks and know a tile that matches them perfectly, or you … Continue reading A few things that would make fun tiles

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