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2019 begins with a bang!

Drostle Public Arts celebrates the new year with a new award to add to the shelf. The Fifth Annual FCI Installation Awards for the category ‘Commercial Tile and Stone’ has named Drostle Public Arts winner for our installation at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto, California. The award was given for our recent…

A Trail Through The Redwood Forest: Children’s hospital artwork mosaic floor design

Stanford Hospitals commissioned this project as the second phase of the major artwork commission for their new Stanford Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. We created phase one for the ground floor entrance lobby, a series of mosaics on the theme of ‘A Walk Along The California Seashore‘. Here Gary describes the process of creating this children’s hospital artwork…

In the making: Designing the Iowa River of Life Mosaic – integrating architecture, history and aspiration.

The National Tile Contractors Association (of America) awarded the ‘River of Life Mosaic’ Best Mosaic Installation at it’s annual award ceremony in Las Vegas 2011. The mosaic was commissioned for the University of Iowa’s new sports centre in Iowa City. In this article I look at the process of designing the Iowa River of Life Mosaic….