Inspirations.  

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...

The wall

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

Swiernalis

Polish alternative musician Swiernalis

Brand

Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...

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

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

American Food

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

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...

Franz De Lacroix

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

Management 7

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

Grids

Twelve essential business analysis grids for design management.

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...

Place cards

Place cards for business meetings: Graphics of common business metaphors are placed in front of meet...

Rayan Ayash

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

Futures

Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.

Korean containers

A formal exploration of ceramic food containers inspired by Korean traditional forms. (C) Mario Gagl...

Palmyra, End of March, 2016

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

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 ...

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.

Observatoires

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

The Many Sides of the Moon

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

"I’m an outsider"

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

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...

Charles Negre

Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.

constructing meaning in 3 steps

Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.

Iraq

Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...

The 2015 best of penccil

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

The Other Side

There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...

Spatial Objects

Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

UN_NATURAL BESTIARY

In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...

Behind the walls

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Lo Zuavo Scomparso

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Parisian Still Lifes

Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Inside is Out - Outside is In

photography by Thomas Skou, Copenhagen.

Aeronauts

Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...

Ramona Rosales Portraits

Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.

Memory & Form

Paul is an Australian-Taiwanese photographer living and working in New York. He studied in Milano an...

Low Tech

Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...

BRANCHES & TREES

Line structures from branches and trees against the sky or as a reflection