Inspirations.  

The flower of a word

Type a word, hit enter, click "make GIF", then download your animated word flower at https://marioga...

Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage

Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

VAW

In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...

MAJI

MAJI Website design

Typography

Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Podchain

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

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China

WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...

Time

How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...

Low cost urban transport

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

AI assistant

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...

Multifunctional tableware

Inspired by the culture, cuisine and hospitality of the ancient silk road, this ceramics series cons...

An organic structure for bikes

A sports bike for urban and mountain environments. The aluminium frame provides for increased stabil...

Stories of You

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...

Aura: Clouds of Knowledge

Aura is an augmented reality concept for historical sites, galleries and museums. Once a user is aro...

Emotional Personal Assistant

Intelligent Personal Assistants such as Siri or Cortana are the link between AI-powered systems and ...

S tables

modul for table

Holodeck

A vitual holodeck where experimental objects are constantly being built and unbuilt. Move your mouse...

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...

Immersive sketch

Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...

The shape of clouds

"Outside, the land stretches, empty, to the horizon; the sky opens, with speeding clouds. In the sha...

One Hundred Thousand Games

One Hundred Thousand Games is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...

Thames & Hudson

As conventional book sales decrease, book publishers have to come up with innovative strategies for ...

Emoji Superhighway

With AR technology, virtual information will soon be projected on car windshields. What would happen...

Art Driver

A obstacle driving computer game with visual art. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to push obsta...

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

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

Semantic Space Invaders

Semantic Space Invaders is a computer game in which the gameplay is happening entirely in your perce...

Black Box. A Cabinet of Robotic Curiosities

The Vitra Campus has a new exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black ...

Cellular Letters

An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...

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.

Breathe

The determined breaths of a glassblower are seldom included in the finished product of their labour,...

City Garden II ´Spaces´

Family garden for 5: spacy rooms

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

penccil: This was 2017

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

Cutting the edges

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

NuSA

Flags are symbols of identification. Designed at the time of the formation of a country, they transp...

The pattern of You

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

Archeology

Philip Henry Gosse was a British 20th century naturalist and illustrator. Attempting to fit Charles ...

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...

We Ar

University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

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

Attraction - Repulsion

An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...

Streetwear Catwalk

In street fashion, ways of walking, gestures and postures are as much part of fashion as the outfit....

Neverending Graphics

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

Coffee maker

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

Mapping Reality

During a walk through Berlin Moabit I sketched my perception of the surrounding streets. The result ...

TYPOGRAPHY

RESEARCH

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...

Living Ink

Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...

Identity

Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...

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

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

"Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...

Jeff Zimmerman

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

Home Patterns

“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...