Glazed Bond
This direction draws General Translation as an Ishtar Gate elevation in the Babylonian revival of Art Deco.
Signature. Flemish bond with glazed lapis headers as the T proof, the source as a gold brick, and a Bayer-dither glaze sheen at the arris of every glazed surface, all set on a crenellated gate elevation.
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The brief
Two battered towers with stepped, turquoise-capped parapets flank a corbelled arch that holds the claim; every section below is one more course of the elevation, its content set as glazed panels into running-bond brick, with gold rosette bands on lapis crossing the towers between courses. The T proof is laid as Flemish bond with glazed headers: a lapis header brick (the flag chip) beside every cream stretcher (the translation), the source string as the one gold brick. Languages are three courses of rosette medallions with the endonym at each center. The four product surfaces sit as tablets in a lapis inner court under its own two-step crenellation. The story is a three-tier ziggurat. Pricing is a gate in miniature: two towers carrying the plans as gold plaques, the rate ledger as the lapis opening. Every glazed surface catches light as ordered Bayer dither from one shared set of tiles; no gradient anywhere. Geometry only.