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A field of black dots on paper in only two sizes, set out so that rows of cubes stand up from the sheet: the tops are bare paper, the left sides are screened with small dots and the right sides with dots so large they almost touch. One cube in the lower right is printed in clay.
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Tumbling Blocks

No. 20 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeA field of black dots on paper in only two sizes, set out so that rows of cubes stand up from the sheet: the tops are bare paper, the left sides are screened with small dots and the right sides with dots so large they almost touch. One cube in the lower right is printed in clay.

What it meansThe tumbling-blocks pattern of floors and quilts, made with a single ink: the shading comes entirely from how big the dots are, the way a printer makes grey.

Where it worksA crisp graphic print for a study, a kitchen or an office; pairs with Out of Line.

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2:3 · 7200 × 10800 px4×6 · 8×12 · 12×18 · 16×24 · 20×30 · 24×36 in
3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
4:5 · 7200 × 9000 px4×5 · 8×10 · 16×20 · 24×30 in
11:14 · 3300 × 4200 px11×14 in
A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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A regular grid of small clay dots covers a bone ground; inside the shape of a large crescent the dots swell to nearly touching, and the edge of the moon is nothing but the place where they change size.Halftone CrescentNo. 1
A staggered grid of black dots swells slowly from invisible at the top to almost solid at the bottom.Halftone FallNo. 2
Black dots stand in exact rows on a warm grey ground, and one clay-red dot near the lower right has slipped from its place.Out of LineNo. 3
About nine hundred gold dots, each turned 137.5 degrees from the last, fan out from the centre into a large disc on black.SunflowerNo. 4
Rings of evenly spaced cream dots grow outward from a small orange centre and run off all four edges of a navy ground, each ring turned slightly from the one inside it and its dots a little fuller.RingsNo. 5
A curving line of eleven teal dots on bone swells from a speck in the upper left to a broad circle at the lower right.CrescendoNo. 6
Dots step from dense navy at the top through a sand-flecked dusk to a ring of growing sand dots around a bare cream sun on the horizon. Below it a navy sea carries a path of sand dots, broken into short ripples, that widens as it comes forward.Pointillist SunsetNo. 7
Hundreds of tiny grey stars cover a deep blue-black ground, thickening into a faint lane that runs up from the lower left. Five groups of brighter cream stars of different sizes are joined by fine lines that stop just short of each star.Invented StarsNo. 8

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