ceramics

Smooth-carved vessels, other forms from brick and mortar

This bowl is actually carved from a block of normal bricks joined with mortar. Even though it looks lathe-turned, I can’t imagine that a slab of conventional brick masonry would hold together during turning, even if you could find a lathe that was able to turn it. Maybe it could be done at extremely low speed? Suffice to say I’m very curious about their process, and other examples on this page lead me to suspect it involves a CNC mill and/or a shop full of very dedicated craftspeople. [via Dude Craft]

Continue Reading May 12th, 2010 Sean Michael Ragan16

Bowls molded from produce, colored to match

I think I might not like these simple ceramic bowls from Austrian designers mischer’traxler so much if not for the fact that they are also carefully color-matched to the piece of fruit or veg from which they are cast. [via NOTCOT]

Continue Reading April 23rd, 2010 Sean Michael Ragan

Floppy disk ceramic tiles

Found these ceramic tiles in the shape of floppy disks at the site of Australian design firm ENESS, who made a pretty cool game of augmented-reality Pong played on a whiteboard awhile back, and, I believe, are also responsible for making these. There’s no info about how it was done, however, and the post is titled “5 1/4 inch,” in spite of the fact that these are clearly 3 1/2 inch floppies. Cool idea, though. Anyone have more info?

Continue Reading March 30th, 2010 Sean Michael Ragan2

P&G Art: Ceramics I Adore

About 12 years ago, I found out that one of the owners of P&G Art, a little shop across from the library in Sebastopol, Calif., gave $10 haircuts. Actually it was $10 for the first cut, then $20 thereafter, unless you brought in a friend, in which case you both got cuts for $10. Never […]

Continue Reading March 26th, 2009 Shawnconna2

Tim See’s steampunky ceramic art

Syracuse, NY pottery and ceramics artist Tim See is enamored with the iron pipes, boilers, rivets and bolts, gauges and levers of steam-age technology. He incorporates all of this into his clay creations. They look so real, you almost forget that they don’t work like the devices they’re meant to evoke. Tim See Clay

Continue Reading February 4th, 2009 Gareth Branwyn2