Bringing Graphics, Art and Colour to man-made surafces.

Formal Element on

• Plastics
• Recycled plastics
• Caesar stone
• Silestone
• Corian

EcoPETlite

Recycling PET bottles into lite weight colourful and sculptural lighting solutions.

Ateliero is currently developing a series of products with special textured surfaces that create a range of different surface appearances including matt, gloss and a magnitude of wonderful surface textures.

Ateliero is an exciting collaboration of two creative minds; Joanne Riddle and Ondrej Lewis, as part of their current MA Art and Design studies at the University of Teesside.

Joanne graduated in 1999 with a First Class Honours degree in International Textiles and Surface Pattern. She formed the business Fuzzy Bridge in 2005, as a project to develop her surface innovation work, where she developed her process called Formal Element. (At the moment Patent Pending)

Ondrej is a 2007 graduate of Interior Architecture and design. He is originally from the Czech Republic with a background in the furniture design and making.

Formal Element*

Is the process that can see the use in various product areas, including innovative architectural materials for the building industry, such as flooring, partitioning, wall-coverings, lighting, fashion and interior / exterior design projects.

It is a unique and innovative process that infuses colour into plastic surfaces

• PVC ( Panels)
• Polypropylene
• Acrylic
• HDPE
• PET
• Vinyl (Floors and walls coverings)

as well as engineered stone

• Silestone
• Caesarstone
• Corian

The colour is impregnated into the surface of the chosen substrate. The result is not a surface print, but an infusion of colour into the material that is waterproof, scratchproof**, lightfast and very permanent! Together with texture and pattern it can be used to replicate hand-painted, digitally generated or textured finishes.Mixing matt and gloss effects enhance the imprinted textures that create fabulous finishes that transform dull plastic items into inspiring works of art!

Formal Element is the future!
Formal Element is for you!

* A patented process for generating a surface appearance onto plastics.

** Up to certain level, most hard wearing surfaces are stones