Inspirations.  

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...

Painted by Time

Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...

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.

penccil: This was 2017

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

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

Kenzo Tange

Kenzo Tange was born September 4, 1913 in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the University of Toky...

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

Akiko Masunaga

マスナガデザイン部／Art director／Designer／Ｏ型／乙女座

Management 7

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

Grids

Twelve essential business analysis grids for design management.

Scum Pixel

'Scum' refers to a foamy layer or mass that forms on the surface of liquid when it is boiled or ferm...

In Infinity

Yayoi Kusama’s unique imagery spring from the recurring hallucinations that have haunted her since...

Struth: Nature & Politics

Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...

Spatial Clusters

"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...

Obsolete Distinction

In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...

HOKUSAI X MANGA

Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...

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...

Bird´s Nest

I am often struck by the nests that crows build using clothes hangers. Hangers are not only durable ...

Toshio Onda

Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...

Eimi Kuroda 黒田 エイミ

Eimi Kuroda (黒田 エイミ), born May 12, 1988 is a Japanese fashion model from Saitama Prefectu...

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...

The Bride Stripped Bare

Fashion designer Ryohei Kawanishi studied at Central St Martins and at Parsons.

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...

私たちは Continuous Design

"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...

Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...