Tiles

Ceramics + Glazes

These tiles are made from ceramics, and took about a year to design and produce. I had become fascinated by the tesselations and patterns found in islamic architecture, specifiaclly the tiles. I designed these completely from scratch, not useing an existing design as a base. My first avenue of exploration were stars, and i tried many variations. Looking at the negative space between them, I started to come up with the rough shape seen above. having sketched the shape, I moved onto the computer, and using Illustateor, ensured that all the angles were correct and that all shapes fitted together. I started producing the 'main' pieces, and then added the centre (blue) bits and the small squares to round it off. there are also 'half' main pieces, that give the tiles an edge, rather than having them tesselate for ever.