Whats you favourite ceramic?  

.. or one strong colored glaze over simple forms
e.g. Jars ceramistes
http://www.jarsceramistes.com/collections/index.html

.. vintage patterned scandinavian
e.g. Porsgrund
http://bloesem.blogs.com/wr_vintageceramics/

.. or patterned, new design
e.g. Dylan Martorell for Domestic france
http://www.domestic.fr/index.php?serie=10

(overly ?) sophisticated ..
http://www.blasknada.com/medl/index.php?l=2.65&lang=eng

.. timeless simple beauty
e.g. Timo Sarpaneva, Suomi for Rosenthal
e.g. Jasper Morrison, Moon for Rosenthal (see pic)

.. as art
e.g. Piet Stockmans installation
http://www.pietstockmans.be/

.. intersection between domestic object & art
e.g. Heather Knight urchin bowls
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5226330

Hi James, good luck with the...
Hi James, good luck with the assignment ! Personally, I simply love ceramics. Hope I added some diversity to inspire you. If you need more examples, give a yell.. :o)

Tjok Dessauvage
http://www.carlakoch.nl/kunstenaars/tjokdessauvage.html

.. with inlay in porcelain
e.g. Mieke Everaet

.. kitchen (1)
Garlic container by Atelier Orange (by Koen !)

kitchen (2)
egg rack (via greenergrassdesign)
http://www.greenergrassdesign.com/

El Verde
Another one of life's delicious mistakes. I was walking through an antique mart of a bunch of different booths and came across this set of El Verde dinnerware from the 1960's. A nearly service for 8 with a lot of rare servicing pieces....bought the lot for $100.00.
It's ironware, not ceramic, but what'd'ya think?

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Metlox
Most Metlox I do not like, but there is one pattern I have heard referred to variously as Poppy (which I think may be wrong) and color stack (which may be right).
I have a partial set like the following. Half is is redish pink. Half is pale seaweed green. All pieces can be mixed together and look great. It is beautifully made. Substantial. Feels wonderful in the hand. And while it looks rather simple and mundane in form, it has subtleties of design that vastly more expensive daily dishware lack. It has small and large coffee cups with their own saucers. The larger cups can double for chowder/soup cups. And the brilliant design detail of these large cups is that they are not perfectly round. The side with the finger handle is much more straight up and down than is the side opposite the finger handle. I don't grasp the physics of it, but it makes this large cup (comparable in size to the big ones you find in contempo coffee houses) effortless to hold and tip. Further the side walls of the bowl are not nearly as straight up and down as the big cups made today.
Koen, you would love the thought that apparently went into these cups, though you could no doubt make them better, if you set your mind to do so. They look utterly unpretentious, utterly conventional infact, but there are design subtleties of shape, thickness, and surface that betray one smart designer behind them. They represent all that was ever good about California ceramics...except they chip a little too easily. Hint. Hint. 🙂