I don't know what it's called, but as soon as I have room in my lineup of projects I want to make the one that's simple boxes with an alternate color block in the middle. I have a bunch of gorgeous batik strips that I think will be lovely for that purpose.
Like the top quilt in this blog:
http://www.sewinspiredblog.com/2011/...ocks-post.html
(Never read this blog, just found this with Google image search)