Tramai Ceramics creates animal-shaped palettes whose faces act as a cover for your wet paint.
Tramai Ceramics creates animal-shaped palettes whose faces act as a cover for your wet paint.
Artist Bird Can Fox, aka Liz Davies, has a simple formula for creating her illustrated ceramics. “Ceramics + illustration x color + pattern,” she declares. Her creature characters follow this idea, being both functional and charming in their surface decoration.…
There are many ways to tell a story—ways that don’t involve pen and paper. Illustrator Daphne Christoforou follows an ancient tradition of adorning handcrafted pottery with narrative imagery. Her tall, bulbous vases and planter bowls showcase circular tales of dreams…
Illustrator Lena Guberman has recently created a series of ceramic sculptures called Wrapped that speak to the innocence and imagination of youth. The character design is charming, but what struck me about the project was the clever interaction between figurine and…
Painted ceramics have a long place in our history. The rise of vase decoration was seen in ancient Greece, which used the surface as a way of depicting everyday life. Today, illustrators loosely follow in this tradition and create their…
Drips are in. Sweet, sticky drip cakes are one of Pinterest’s 2017 wedding trends, and the same goes for ceramics. The latest drip pots by the London-based Kinska use her signature minimalist palette and tiny faces that are overrun by dribbles…
Like so many people on the internet, I’ve fallen in love with the work of Elisa Lefebvre. The colorful illustrated ceramics feature a watercolor-esque application of glaze. So despite their strong, often stout forms, the pieces have a feeling of levity…
Inspired by wildflowers, roootree (aka Kaori) illustrates their colorful beauty onto porcelain plates, cups, and saucers. My favorite pattern—a mixture of tall grasses and bright buds—seems undoubtedly inspired by this meadow of wildflowers. Kaori has translated the endless rows of…
Leah Goren is an illustrator known for her awe-inspiring sketchbook. That spontaneous, painterly-style works on more than just paper, though. She’s transferred her visible, energetic brush strokes to hand-built illustrated ceramic plates and vessels. They too feel like something out of her…