Visual artist Anna Kesäniemi flits between mediums. Collage, textile design, paint, and sculpture each offer new opportunities for Kesäniemi’s playful eye. Her roots in graphic design and illustration inject her work with stories and imagination, adding life and layers of detail in colours both bold and unexpected. Her recent focus on ceramics embraces this same style. Tiles and shapes serve as canvases where texture and … Continue reading Anna Kesäniemi
Working with clay for over 20 years, Michigan-based Gretchen Kramp creates three dimensional handmade tiles decorated with cosy creatures and home comforts. Each gently irregular piece measures between the tiny 2 x 2″ and more stately 8 x 8″, with diverse subjects, themes, and styles for a variety of tastes. Toast, cereal, and fried eggs serve up scenes for breakfast lovers whilst Mothman, Mermaids, and … Continue reading Gretchen Kramp
Finishing our second week of tile-world companies and creatives we have Guumba Pottery – a Seoul-based ceramic studio that creates captivating handcrafted homeware. Exploring the interplay of organic material and an artist’s touch, each piece is decorated in Guumba Pottery’s reinterpretation of traditional Korean folk paintings, aesthetics, and patterns. Every bowl, vase, cup, and tile form a canvas, depicting charming creatures and striking motifs in … Continue reading Guumba Pottery
Working in a multitude of mediums, Austria-based artist Elisabeth Perez explores the overlooked, transforming the ordinary and unloved with bold and beautiful abstract shapes in vibrant, pigmented colours. From trucks to market tarps, abandoned buildings to street walls, these geometric shapes are given unconventional homes. Taking inspiration from stones found on her adventures, Perez studies the angles, shadows, and details to create the sections that’ll … Continue reading Elisabeth Perez
From tiles made of snail poop to those that to look like body parts, the tile world is full of wacky wonders. Here are five more to enjoy. 1) Królik Filling a void in the decadent, intricately detailed wall covering sphere, Polish tile company Królik‘s offerings feature 3D designs made to create striking, unique, and wonderfully colourful interiors full of whimsy and wonder. 2) Poop to … Continue reading Five more wacky wonders from the tile world
Vibrant pieces full of childlike wonder, the tiled art of Isabelle Malo inspire optimism and nostalgia with their colour and charm. In trivets and tiles, Malo’s ceramic art prints transfer the rich texture of canvas to a flat glossy surface, adding permanence to the vivid pigments and artistic strokes. The joyful soul of each whimsical scene, patchwork cat, and lively flower bed burst through, creating … Continue reading The vivid nostalgia of Isabelle Malo
Since our fruity tile post last April I’ve been on the hunt for more. So join me in enjoying this collection of deliciously zesty fruity tiles. 1) Fruity Fun from Erick Millan Making excellent use of the curvaceous shape of fishscale tiles, designer Erick Millan creates vibrant fruity cross sections. Featuring watermelons, cantaloupes, lemons, and kiwis, intense shades of red, green, and yellow offer an … Continue reading Five deliciously zesty fruity tiles
From comics to cheese, modern clay to unfired tiles, today’s curiosities are full of magic! 1) Mosaic Tiles Achilles Colored Duo A bold, bizarre, and craftily curious, this unexpected mosaic design from Mosafil showcases a variety of characters, artworks, and comic-strip snippets for an unusual Pop Art bonanza with a retro flair. 2) Firenze Made from NeoClay, a new, innovative ceramic material, Solus Ceramics’ Firenze … Continue reading Cyberspace Curiosities XXI
Using tiles as her canvas, Anastasia Ropalo adds brilliantly detailed florals and geometrics to ceramic and wood, forming unique surfaces for highly decorative furnishings. Each stem, bud, petal, curve, and diamond is lined with tiny dots to create an elegant sense of movement and subtle texture. Both flowy, continuous William Morris-esque designs and playful patchworks form Ropalo’s extensive portfolio. These hand painted tiles are then … Continue reading Anastasia Ropalo
It has been so much fun finding all the tiles to fill our animal-themed posts. If you’ve missed them we’ve got dog tiles, cat tiles, insect tiles, fish tiles, and sealife tiles, and today we’re taking to the skies with a whole bunch of bird tiles! 1) Reptile Tiles In the trippy, humorous style of Medieval art, Reptile Tiles’ Medieval Animal Tiles collection features a … Continue reading Six little bird tiles ready to take flight
Add a touch of drama and finesse to your interiors with a show of stripes. We’ve got five interiors to inspire you and the tiles you need to recreate the look at home. 1) Baby Mint Embrace the balance of blue green with this stunning colour and add a little stripey flair for fun. Get the look with Tiffany Dots from Otto Tiles & Design, … Continue reading Get the Look: Stripes
The 70s are back in a huge way so lean into it with these seven tile collections that go big on nostalgia. 1) Ike This patchwork collection from Codicer95 offers up funky florals in warm and cold colourways to create a feature with flower power vibes. 2) Bauhome Earthy oranges, browns, and greens decorate these retro designs from Equipe. Nine motifs for mixing and matching … Continue reading Seven 70s inspired tiles
It has been nearly two years since we shared our first roundup of fantastically tiled cafés so we thought it about time we do another. Heading all the way around the world to find tiled spaces that make the coffee drinking experience one to remember, here are five more. 1. Coffix in Athens, Greece The tiles may not be wacky here, but the classic plain … Continue reading Five fabulously tiled cafe interiors
Earlier this year we looked at Skate or Design, a company that transforms snapped skate boards into one-of-a-kind wall coverings. And today we have something a little similar. Art of Board is a lifestyle brand that takes the skate aesthetic and produces a variety of chic decors. Material made from broken boards, unique interior spaces, skate-inspired chair designs, textile and wallpaper creations, clothes made from … Continue reading Skater Tiles from Art of Board
Encouraging community with their Buy Back Program and creating unique products from inevitable waste, skater craftsmen in the USA are filling a fine niche. Deckstool, founded by brothers Jason and Adam Podlaski, takes used and broken skateboards and gives them a whole new life. With their Broken Skateboard Buy Back Program the company ensures a steady supply of materials whilst partnering with skate shops and … Continue reading Skate or Design
A studio born of friendship, Ramona Paloma crafts delight and whimsy fresh from clay. Despite having lived virtually parallel lives for many years, it wasn’t until 1998 when studio founders Tracy and Soozee first met and bonded over a shared love of art. Beginning with jewellery, a surprising forray into tiled pet-feeding-tables for a charity auction led them towards the welcoming, charming arms of ceramics. … Continue reading Ramona Paloma Tile Studio
Seeing so many tiles day in day out can lead to a mind full of fabulous images, but it can be hard to remember every range, pattern, and design that’s tickled our fancy over the years. That said, there are some pieces in particular that have stayed with us, becoming firm favourites that we will never forget, so we thought we’d share a few of … Continue reading Five Italian Favourites
Last year we shared two of designer and creative Giovanni Barbieri‘s incredible ranges – Squar and Murano – both itricately curated collections with a smooth focus on texture and experimentation with effects such as relief and inlaid glass. And today we have another of his beautiful creations to share – Kle. Continued experimentation with tile led Barbieri to relax common conceptions of accepted shapes and … Continue reading Kle curves and connects
It’s important to us here at Diary of a Tile Addict to make space for every and anyone who creates, enjoys, and adds to the tile world. To fulfil that we spend quite some time searching for smaller tile companies that can get buried below large manufacturers and well-known names. Our monthly round-ups of companies to keep an eye on adds to this exposure, but … Continue reading The Brilliance of Black Dog
Last month we covered the curious Squar tiles from Giovanni Barbieri, ‘presented’ at Dezeen’s Virtual Design Festival earlier this year. But that wasn’t all the Italian designer had to offer as two additional tile ranges made their mark, one of which we will share with you today. The Murano Collection is a fantastic mix of handmade terracotta, natural stone, and translucent polished relief inlay Murano … Continue reading Marvellous Murano
