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A platform for creative people

Founder: MGD Digital

An overview of penccil.com, the visual culture sharing platform developed by Mario Gagliardi Design in 2012.

How it started In 2012, MGD designed penccil.com as a web platform for collaborative creativity.

What does penccil do? penccil.com creates online galleries from user-submitted images and provides in-browser collaboration tools.

from toolset to social network From its initial concept of a creative collaboration platform, penccil has grown into a social network for creative people.

Projects Design collective Pinwu - Zhang Lei, Christoph John and Jovana Bogdanovic - are collaborating in Yuhang, China, to re-interpret traditional Chinese crafts.

Penique productions is a collective of artists from Barcelona. They specialize in changing interiors by means of inflatable balloons, thereby creating unique spatial experiences.

Pascal Broccolichi is a sound designer who explores the boundaries of acoustic design, turning spaces into new acoustic experiences.

Soderlund Davidson is a British-Swedish couple designing together. Here a cake stand / candle holder series made in their own workshop.

Simon Porte Jacquemus is an up-and-coming 24-year-old French designer who started his own fashion label in Paris at the age of 19.

Merve Kahraman is a furniture designer from Istanbul who made a stir in Turkey with a profound sense of humor in her creations.

Photographer Huang Qingjun portraits families all over China together with all their worldly possessions.

Leonor Brilha is a young Portuguese mural painter telling both traditional and personal stories with large-scale murals in Lisbon.

Paying Forward: penccil members showcasing their own work and introduce the work of friends and people whose work they admire.

Huang Quingjun

Soderlund Davidson: installation, theater workshop, boutique.

Simon tells stories of his generation with high fashion set in locations of his childhood, such as a modernist seaside resort town in France which for him is both nostalgic and alienating.