In this talk, we present a new combinatorial context for q-series
identities. By simply rewriting many partition theoretic identities,
we can make them more amenable to tilings of an infinitely long
board. The advantage of this approach is that beautiful yet complex
bijections relating two different collections of partitions are
replaced by simple constructions involving the same collection of
tilings. Classical results of Euler, Sylvester, Lebesgue, Rogers,
and Ramanujan will be discussed.