ceramics

Bowls molded from produce, colored to match

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]

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Floppy disk ceramic tiles

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?

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Tim See’s steampunky ceramic art

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

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