A truly collaborative project that was a real learning experience for everyone involved, the repetitive tile project began as an abstract study of natural forms and an ode to the master Architect Louis Sullivan. Sullivan, former mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, designed beautiful ornamental terra cotta tiles that decorated his buildings' exteriors and interiors.

As a side project, Architect Duncan Nicholson assigned the conceptual design work as a collaborative learning exercise for intern Merlin Andrews. Using mathematical formulas, including fractal geometry, to inform a 2d design, it was then modified by Kris Conner to develop repetitive tile pattern.