Inspirations.  

Emotibots

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

Painted by Time

Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...

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

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

Grabbed

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

Mugs

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...

Wayne Sorce: Urban Color

"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

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

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

The wall

photography and theoretical project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank

Swiernalis

Polish alternative musician Swiernalis

penccil gifs

gifs from penccil projects.

Membrane

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

Glowscape

Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...

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...

Watch UX

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

Chromatic seating

3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

American Food

Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...

What Is A Simulation?

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

Michael Schoner

Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...

The algorithm of fashion

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

The art of improvising art

The recently abandoned administrative headquarters of Austrian Post, an imposing turn of the century...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

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

“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”

Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...

Total Automation

In The Promise of Total Automation, artists examine technology in its complexity. They point out our...

Franz De Lacroix

Model: Franz De Lacroix / Average is Boring Photographer: Paulina Wyszynska

Sky Walk

The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...

Akiko Masunaga

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

Inspiration

Things which inspire me https://soundcloud.com/myrne/architect https://vimeo.com/173541384

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

Obsolete Distinction

In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...

L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...

Design & Politics

Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...

Julius Shulman: Visual Drama

"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...

Memories of Ruins: Rebecca Bathory

Finding beauty in darkness, poetry and meaning in the forgotten and surreal, imaginary worlds amongs...

Toshio Onda

Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...

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...

F zero zero d

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

Rayan Ayash

Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.

Futures

Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.

Palmyra, End of March, 2016

Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...

Luigi Colani

Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Blast

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...

Man. Kiki. Lee.

The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...

Air Luxe

Lavish food offerings and smiling stewardesses in fashionable outfits in economy class, upper deck p...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Uncanny Bodies

There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...

Trees in Winter

A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.

Manufactured Landscapes

We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...

Color constructions

The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

Observatoires

Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...

Palatial Eliasson

Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including in...

Nauru

Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...

SCHNAPPVIECHER

The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

"I’m an outsider"

Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Spacecraft

Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...

Mirrors

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...

Roland Rainer

Roland Rainer, born 1910 in Klagenfurt, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. His dissertat...