Inspirations.  

Generative Botany

An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...

Cognition

This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...

Creative Changemakers & Future City

Promotional sites for the initiative Creative Changemakers and the event Future City. (C) 2018 MGD M...

The Persona Project

Social media are powerful because humans use the same parts of the brain to interact with machines a...

Blacker Box

Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017

Stories of the Future

A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.

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...

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...

An organic structure for bikes

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

S tables

modul for table

One Hundred Thousand Games

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

Jerszy Seymour Amateurtopia

Berlin born and –based designer Jerszy Seymour studied engineering at South Bank Polytechnic 1987 ...

Emotibots

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

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 ...

Breathe

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

Grabbed

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 ...

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

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 ...

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

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

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...

penccil gifs

gifs from penccil projects.

Glowscape

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

Structured Reflection

These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

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

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...

Home Patterns

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

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

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...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni

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

Memphis Posters

4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

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

A Summer For The Modernists

"Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and bec...

Joe Colombo: Total Furnishing Unit

The Total furnishing unit: Bathroom by Joe Colombo, Milano 1971.

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

This City

This City is an audio-visual piece performed as musical alter-ego Mark Eats. It explores what happen...

ЯРОСЛАВ МИСОНЖНИКОВ: ODNOSVECHNIK

ODNOSVECHNIK is a candle holder in marble and wood. Designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, born 1988 in ...

20th Century Italian Tables

A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.

Tea Time

TEA AVE es una marca Canadiense de Tés Oolong. Nos pidieron el desarrollo de la imagen gráfica, la...

The future of traveling - Projects

Project results of the workshop on the future of hospitality, tourism and traveling led by Mario Gag...

Robert Slezak

A trained locksmith from Bystrice pod Hostýnem, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Robert Sl...

Poul Hundevad and the Guldhøj chair

The large barrow from the Bronze Age with the promising name of Guldhøj (Gold Hill) in Southern Jut...

Jewelry Design Art

Jewelry Art design pattern inspired from nonlinear dynamics. Drawings collection about fluid flows...

BASILE ARTECO "Coquetier" design Paolo Ulian

DESIGN PAOLO ULIAN: egg-holder