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Unconventional Mosaic Art: Atom Animation
Nanophysicists at IBM set a record that will be hard to beat when they used atoms to make the world's smallest stop-motion film. Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers used tiny magnets to move atoms one by one along a copper surface.
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Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition 2013 Winners
For twenty years the Confindustria Ceramica (the Italian Association of Ceramics) and the Italian Trade Commission have searched for innovative spaces designed with ceramic italian tiles through the Ceramics of Italy Tile Competition. The winners range from homes to hotels to medical centers and encompass a variety of styles. Although at first they seem quite different, all the designs are united by their beauty, creativity, and sustainability. 1) 2013 / Residential Winner MRSA Architects & Planners Schaefer/Graf Residence Contractor: Kraftex Floor Corporation 2) 2013 / Residential Honorable Mention DEN Architecture Bilezikjian...
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Mosaics By Robot, Everyone
From: www.huffingtonpost.com By: Mallika Rao Yesterday’s Wired profile tells the futuristic story of Artaic, a company hoping for “world mosaic domination,” by way of a robot that builds cheaper, faster mosaics than even factories in China and India. For anyone following the creep of robots into the so-called creative industries — music, architecture and now, apparently, mosaic work — the obvious question to follow is what a world cloaked in robot murals will look like. Puzzlingly, the story doesn’t go there. No clear images of these brave new creations accompany the article. As disgruntled readers are noting, the pictures are instead...
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Our robots don’t make art. Our artists do!
Artaic responds to some recently received press on Wired.com and HuffingtonPost.com which was met with some backlash, primarily from the mosaic arts community. We wanted to continue the conversation about contemporary mosaic art and how it's created.
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Top Tile Trends for 2013
With Coverings, the largest tile and stone trade show wrapping up this week, its time to talk tile. Here’s our top 5 list of tile trends to look for in 2013: 1. Large Format Tile Last year it was large tile: think subway bricks, 8″x8″ squares and even as large as 16″x32″ rectangles. This year we’re super sizing the subway tile and heading towards 36”x72”. They’re clean and contemporary, look great on floors and backsplash areas. Plus they’re much easier to clean than the standard tile. 2. Large scale patterns on tile Large scale patterns on tile are sharp and stylish, as seen below in this Refin Ceramiche...
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World’s Most Wired Mosaic Maker
From: www.wired.com By: Tim Maly The first thing you hear is the robot. The rhythmic beat of whirrs punctuated by brief silences reaches down the unmarked concrete halls of the Boston Design Center, letting you know you’re headed in the right direction. As you approach the entrance to Artaic’s offices, you pass by an open side door and the robot is right there — an industrial arm suspended off a steel frame, its tip zipping back and forth between a gridded sheet and rows of colored tiles. It grabs a piece and drops it on the grid, then grabs another and does the same and another and another. Whirr. Pick. Whirr. Drop. Whirr. Pick. Whirr. Drop. Eventually, Ted...
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Therme Wein by 4a Architekten
4a Architekten of Stuttgart designed a 4 season color concept for this Vienna spa. The spa contains all the necessary spaces to cleanse the mind, body and soul. The water park and diving area feature blue and white tiles, while the foyer and 'thermal bath 2' are topped off with a mixture of reds, yellows and oranges with a few bright greens to mix it up. 'Thermal bath 1' tones it down a notch with a more relaxed autumnal mixture of the same colors.
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Shattered Glass Animal Sculptures by Marta Klonowska
The photos speak for themselves on this one. Using broken shards of colored glass, Marta Klonowska transformed what some people may call trash into beautifully unique sculptures. These sculptures reflect animals seen in baroque and romantic paintings by Peter Paul Rubens and Francisco de Goya. Her work appeared at the European Glass Context 2012, an exhibition known for focusing on artists that create contemporary glass and ceramic...
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NEWH Networking Event at Empire Restaurant
Last Wednesday the New England chapter of NEWH hosted a networking event at Empire Restaurant located at Fan Pier in Boston’s Seaport. Artaic had the pleasure of sponsoring of the event along with Legrand Lighting Controls. It was a successful event for the emerging New England chapter, with almost 100 hospitality professionals in attendance. There were two lucky winners that night: one received an Empire gift certificate from the fish bowl drawing, and our the other lucky winner guessed the number of Artaic tiles in Empire’s custom mosaic floor pattern and received a complimentary drink from our Founder & CEO Ted Acworth. Thanks to everyone who came...
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Michael Kalish: Muhammad Ali reALIze
Michael Kalish pays tribute to the most popular boxer in the world; Muhammad Ali through the work of an unconventional sculpture. This 22-foot-high sculpture combines 1,300 punching bags, 2,500 pounds of aluminum piping and 6 1/2 miles of steel cable to create the image of Muhammad Ali’s face. It was finished and on display at the Nokia Plaza L.A. in 2011 after taking 3 years to complete. Kalish is known for this type of artwork and was approached by Muhammad and his wife after seeing his license plate sculpture on television. “I love turning ordinary objects into extraordinary works of art,” said Kalish. “This is an opportunity of a lifetime and I’m...
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