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Inspirations.

REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...

Cooking with myth

IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...

Emotional drones

タマ tama : ball, sphere; also jewel, spirit, soul タマタマ tamatama : by chance Balloon drone...

Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch

"Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 July 10, 11 a...

Unfolding sound spaces

Conventional audio speakers require the listener to sit in a certain spot to get the best audio expe...

Shape-shifting robotic structures

Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...

Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...

Cellular Automata: A design language for industrial silk

Handmade Mudmee silk is part of the cultural heritage of Thailand and Laos with a tradition reaching...

Flow simulations on car designs. Surfaces in red show the highest resistance. (C) MGD 2010.

The Joys of Ice Skating

That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be s...

Cutting the edges

Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...

The pattern of You

Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...

Intentionally on the very edge of usability, this project takes ubiquitous objects - in this case co...

Functional Pasta

Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...

Maurice Binder was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including th...

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...

Neverending Graphics

Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...

Le Drugstore Brand Identity

Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...

Visualization of the process of coffee making. The aim was not to use words.

FASHION ADVERTISING

Geigy, Swiss and European Graphic Design

Selection of outstanding graphic design from Europe

A book by Jonathan Monk.

A book by Mika Tajima. Negative Entropy is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of in...

A book by Sam Levitt. TEMPLATE is a book whose information emerges under programmatic erasure. Or p...

Book : Baldessari

A book by John Baldessari.

Book : Armleder

A book by John Armleder.

Book : Mullican

A book by Matt Mullican.

A book by Lawrence Weiner.

Book : Cattelan

A book by Maurizio Cattelan.

A book by Matthew Brannon.

A design study for sculptural loudspeakers made from laminate membranes suspended by an external lat...

Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces

Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...

Structured Reflection

These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...

Mapping movement to music

This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...

A UX study for a smart watch with a digital interface from 2004. (C) Mario Gagliardi

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

What Is A Simulation?

What is a simulation? It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...

The algorithm of fashion

Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...

Groupe Garcia Ingénierie

Corporate identity. Marseille, France, 2015.

マスナガデザイン部／Art director／Designer／Ｏ型／乙女座

7 thoughts on management: Paradox, Management, Hierarchy, Bureaucracy, Trust, Vision, Motivation. (C...

"Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...

Viktor Hertz was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1983. In 2009, he started to do graphic design as a hob...

"What I try to do is use technology to create representations of imagery found in nature. Technology...

Liqen was born in 1980, in Vigo, a port and industrial city of Galicia, in Spain. Since very little,...

Xavier Antin: Printing at Home

A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...

Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...

Intuitive Phone

Design futures concepts for a smartphone and a portable music player (2004) by Mario Gagliardi. This...

Computer Vision

Four design concepts by Mario Gagliardi on the possibilities of personal computers, designed and pub...

Plates decorated with stylized prints of stereotypical food items: a hot dog, a steak, a slice of pi...

Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.

“I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...

AG Frozoni: We need to aim at essential things

“We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant effects, every useless flowering, t...

Andrea Guccini: 4A+1

Andrea Guccini, born in Bologna in 1993, studied at the IED in Milan. He is living and working betw...

Julien Notter and Sébastien Vigne

Basé à Lausanne, Notter + Vigne est un atelier graphique fondé en 2002 par les designers Julien N...

Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik

Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...

Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...

Julian Opie studied at Goldsmiths´ College (1979-82) under Michael Craig-Martin, for whom he briefl...

Make War, Not Love

Digitally printed charmeuse silk series 'Touchingly Unfeeling' by Jonathan Zawada. Jonathan Zawada...

The Many Sides of the Moon

Variations on light refraction patterns through a prism, in a set-up reminding on the iconic cover o...

Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...

Sadamitsu Neil Fujita

Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...

L´Imparfaite by VLF

VLF studio is Thomas Cristiani and Antoine Roux in Paris.

Posters for the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Bureau Mirko Borsche is a graphic desi...

Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker

Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Hasui Kawase 川瀬巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

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Paper sculpture

Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...

Printed textures

3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...

The painted house

These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...

Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...

SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...

I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...

71 views of the magic mountain

In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...

on paper books and e-books

these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...

This student design project smartly uses paper to give shape to the intertidal coastline of Taiwan, ...

Culinary Tradition

Four examples of contemporary food packaging designs inspired by traditional Chinese patterns and gr...

Old-school postal packaging usually gets little attention from graphic designers. Not so in this fun...

Swiss graphic designers We Play created this pop-art inspired, fun poster series for the Archipelles...

For Inwayi Kids House in Ningbo City, China, designer Nono Xia of graphic design studio Ninemix cam...

Origami envelopes

Origami Envelopes have a special place in Japanese gift-giving culture. The four envelopes here rep...

Les Concerts du mercredi

The idea of Swiss based graphic design practice We Play Design for these posters for Les Concerts du...

Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming

Although this is for an exhibition of Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima at Shanghai Minsh...

Yokohama Museum of Art Calendar

Graphic designers Aizawa office from Yokohama designed this wall calendar. With its unassuming but a...

A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.

Synthetic Paradise

Generative music combined with abstract graphics. Click the screen to generate new graphics: https:/...

Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...

HYFY is a project to rethink the functions, structures and formal expressions of audio hardware.

Back in the USSR

Great retro logos from the old USSR, and a Beatles song. https://soundcloud.com/thebeatlesrevisited...

Faces by 田中一光 Ikko Tanaka

Inspired by the Bauhaus, by Jazz and by American graphic design, Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was one of ...

Omnidirectional microphone

Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...

A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018

Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...

Concept, branding, design and coding of penccil, the site for creative people, studios and gallerie...

Pattern generator

A generator for tile and fabric patterns. Drag and drop images and see kaleidoscopic patterns emerge...

Essential Water

In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...

This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...

Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017

Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...

Writing & Design

Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside. Writer and Designer.

Writing & Design

Bohemian Highways: Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast. Writer and Designer.

Writing & Design

Horizon Homes: Living a Concrete Dream. Writer and Designer, Ted Wells.

Writing & Design

Artists Abroad: A Woman´s Journey to Discover the Artists. Writer and Illustrator.

Writing & Design

Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...

Low cost urban transport

Combining contemporary technology with a focus on low cost and reliability, this neighborhood transp...

With the advance of digitalisation, items which once had a central position in households have disap...

Hybrid urban scooter

A low-cost hybrid urban scooter for developing countries running either on electric battery or on bi...

Omnidirectional Speaker

Sculptural ominidirectional speakers, projecting sound recorded from an omnidirectional microphone i...