Design studyTableware
One tile,
a whole table.
00The project
- Type
- Logo exercise, no client brief
- Design
- A studio designer
- Year
- 2023
Lotus Pottery is a 2023 logo exercise from the studio: an imagined tableware brand, with one cobalt blue and one square tile. Four lotus petals turn toward the centre and a sprig of leaves reaches into each corner. Set the tiles side by side and the corners close into a second flower — everything else in the brand is that tile.
- Tile mark
- Lockup
- Repeat pattern
- Banner & poster
01The tile
Four petals
turned toward the centre.
The mark is a square tile: four lotus petals frame a square heart, and a sprig of two leaves reaches in from each corner along the diagonal. Everything is cut out of the blue, so the tile works as a solid block or, reversed, as blue line work on white. The lockup sets the name in widely spaced serif capitals, with the tile between LOTUS and POTTERY.
02The pattern
Set them edge to edge,
and a second flower opens.
The pattern needed no new drawing. Set the tiles edge to edge and the leaves in four corners meet as a small four-petal flower, the quarter-circles close into its centre dot, and the stems join into a diagonal lattice. One tile, two flowers, alternating across the whole surface.