An evolutionary algorithm for bike design
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A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test track, the best performing bike shapes get selected. Race your own to see which bike design ist best adapted to the track at
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Inter Face
Stages in the user interface design development for penccil.com, 2012-2014. Through a period of two ...
Morphodynamics - Principle of Nature
Morphodynamics study of nature research for the Universal Sphere Vortex Principle computation part...
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
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Futures
Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.
Korean containers
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DIY Ceremonies
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The EU Game
A French board game from the nineteen-fifties including hazards and a pan-european currency.
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A curated collection and workshop on handmade and sustainable objects, made in northern Thailand and...
Luxury redefined
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Device 6
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Machinarium
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Parallax
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Absurd
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Modular Audio
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Display
Study for a large scale interior projection. Mario Gagliardi 2002.
Intuitive IOT
Design studies for domestic IoT (Internet of Things) Hubs for an electronics manufacturer. Full IoT ...
Atmospheric airplane interior
Airplane interior studies. The sourrounding skyscape is projected onto the airplane ceiling to bring...
Parametric speaker
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Printed textures
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Candy Morandi
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Chromaglass
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HYFY
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Omnidirectional microphone
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Speaker
A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018
Streampal
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Essential Water
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Generative Botany
An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...
Blacker Box
Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017
Podchain
Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...
Time
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Hybrid urban scooter
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Omnidirectional Speaker
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Multifunctional tableware
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An organic structure for bikes
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Stories of You
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Cooking with myth
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Emotional drones
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Aura: Clouds of Knowledge
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Art Driver
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Unfolding sound spaces
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Shape-shifting robotic structures
Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...
Emotibots
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Semantic Space Invaders
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Flow
Flow simulations on car designs. Surfaces in red show the highest resistance. (C) MGD 2010.
The pattern of You
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Mugs
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Functional Pasta
Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...
Algorithm
things, people,think as algorithms...........
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...
Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces
Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...
Structured Reflection
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Mapping movement to music
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Watch UX
A UX study for a smart watch with a digital interface from 2004. (C) Mario Gagliardi
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Font design for a video game