Loopy Tiles

The “Loopy” tiles are inspired by a visit to Gaudi’s house in Barcelona, where I found hexagon-shaped tiles on the floor. All the tiles are of identical design, but may be rotated to “mate” with their neighbours, making interesting patterns.

In exploring the mathematical and artistic potential of this idea I came up with the “Loopy” design for tiles – a single tile design is used to make patterns such as these:

I have 3D printed 1-inch tiles (square, hexagonal, other shapes to come) with various geometric designs … children of all ages love to assemble them into patterns such as those you can see above.

I would like to see the designs realised on a larger scale for walls, ceilings and floors – I would work with a tile maker to achieve this.

I would like to collaborate with other artists to create more interesting designs. I have designed tiles with ropes instead of plain bands, but we can go much further – snakes, railway trains bridging roads (and vice versa) … any ideas?

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