In the last few years, brane tilings have proven to be an efficient and
convenient way of studying supersymmetric gauge theories living on D3-branes or
M2-branes. In these pages we present a quick and simple introduction to the
subject, hoping this could tickle the reader's curiosity to learn more on this
extremely fascinating subject.Comment: 3 pages, 2 figures, based on a presentation given by G.T. at the 2010
Cargese Summer School (June 21-July 3), to appear in the proceeding