Cement-tile artisans use colorful pigments to form hundreds of designs. The product can cost 10 times as much as subway tiles.

Harper also acknowledges tile choice ultimately comes down to aesthetic preferences, and points out that subway tile is as popular as it is because of its simplicity and clean look.

Never tiled before? Same here - but that didn’t stop us. With help from Rachel Andersen, I tackled a vertical subway tile ...

A square foot of zellige tiles can cost $50. Compare that to ceramic subway tiles, which might only cost about $0.15 per square foot.

Tile by Tile, A Mural Is Saved At the end of a subway line in downtown Pittsburgh, the artist Romare Bearden filled a wall with ceramic scenery.

Transit officials have decided to alter subway tiles at a Manhattan station that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag.

Michelle Gabel/The Post-StandardBob Shenfeld, a Syracuse ceramist, is restoring New York City subway tiless in his new studio on West Fayette Street. These tiles are going back in the station at ...