What a year: The 2013 best of penccil
& collect
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44 Portraits by Dimitri Kasterine by Collaborate: #7175
Danish Design Logotypes by D and D, #5901
Ferragamo by The Artist, #6709
High Renaissance by Felix, #5805
CHINA by Marco Pisani, #4750
No Wheels by Cycle, #5699
Stahl House by Antoine, #6716
Small is Beautiful by Doesburg: #4722
Pinocchio by Attilia Mussino by Brenda, #6668
19th century French house details, facades and blueprints by Architect: #6943
Basquiat Sketches by Paper, #4184
Weegee and Andy Warhol by Felix: #7125
Cineri Gloria Sera Est by Collaborate: #5686
HOUSE IN CADOÇOS by Collaborate, #4909
Mangold by Alvine, #7021
NOT AT IKEA by Art Courier, #5990
Ying Gao by Tomoko, #6749
Design Must Disappear by Brenda, #5838
Streamlining by Albert, #4677
Weird Beauty by Studio Brenta 201, #6808
A Nest by Architect, #6085
Lisette Model by Brenda, #5452
Fifties Type Specimens by Jean-Luc, #6673
Unknown Classics of the 20th Century by Design Team, #4675
Japanese Metabolism by Masahiro, #6980
The Tour De London by Designer, #4700
Paris Metro by Santiago: #7150
VICTOR BRAUNER: PEINDRE, C´EST LA VIE by Art Courier, #5762
La Forma del Gusto by Arts And Crafts, #5536
Takahiro Ogawa by Design Team, #6722
Franz West by Art Courier, #5382
JEAN PROUVÉ by Antoine, #7057
The FONTASTIC series by De Construct: #6993, #6994, #6995, #6997
Italianità by Gianpaolo Martelozzi, #6221
Matthew Hollister by Brenda, #5643
Harley Earl by Albert: #7061
9 Creators: Contemporary ceramics by De Construct: #5855
The amazing Cut & Fold series by Brenda: #7181, #7184, #7183, #7100, #7099, #7094, #7095, #7096, #7097
A New way Of Seeing by Doesburg, #5966
Pixar 25 Years of Animation by Damian, #4967
Carlo Scarpa: Tomba Brion by Mario, #6277
Stripped by Santiago, #6740
A Day in My Creative Life by De Construct, #5383
Mobility by Felix, #7185
CHU ENOKI 榎忠展 RPM-1200 by Collaborate, #7026
Hypnosis by Tomoko: #6985
Paris Photo 2013 by Felix: #7133
UNE ROSE DANS L´ UNIVERS by Alvine, #4553
Drawing Machine by Damian, #5790
Round Trip by Santiago, #5877
Inspirations.
Synthetic Paradise
Generative music combined with abstract graphics. Click the screen to generate new graphics:
https:/...
Marqueterie
A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...
Chromaglass
Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...
Francesco Vezzoli: Antique not Antique
Francesco Vezzoli at MUSEO MUSEION.
Surrealism
Inspired by Surrealism and some of the artists of that time (such as Dali or Ernst), I created basic...
Nature morte/Nature vivante
Until recently, artists, designers and architects were used to working with inert, non-living materi...
HYFY
HYFY is a project to rethink the functions, structures and formal expressions of audio hardware.
The gilded castle
Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...
Upcycled
Furniture design from upcycled materials: Stools from old rubber tyres, oil barrels and washing mach...
The Heavy Palace
The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...
Back in the USSR
Great retro logos from the old USSR, and a Beatles song.
https://soundcloud.com/thebeatlesrevisited...
Faces by 田中 一光 Ikko Tanaka
Inspired by the Bauhaus, by Jazz and by American graphic design, Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was one of ...
chair_ONE
chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...
Cazal
Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...
Arte generativo
Ejemplos de arte generativo que sirvan de inspiración
Reactive Space
Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...
Omnidirectional microphone
Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...
Speaker
A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions.
(C) Mario Gagliardi 2018
Paris
Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Rudolf Belling
Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...
Calatrava : Sculptures
Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.
Streampal
Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...
penccil
Concept, branding, design and coding of penccil, the site for creative people, studios and gallerie...
Pattern generator
A generator for tile and fabric patterns. Drag and drop images and see kaleidoscopic patterns emerge...
CoBrA Magazines
The avant-garde art collective CoBrA (Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam) existed from 1949 to 1951....
PIXelated Cube
experiment idea materialmatters architecture
Fashion 4.0
The fashion industry is on the threshold of a revolution. Global fashion companies ranging from luxu...
CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE
My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
The rise of active wear
In the 1920s, legendary tennis player Jean Rene Lacoste invented the tennis shirt, the signature of ...
Jonathan Ive leaves Apple
On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...
Street Life
Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Abstract Form
Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....
Energy
Every photo has an energy, a direction, and a story. I do not own this story.
Essential Water
In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...
The Venice Pavillon
The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...
Collaborative City Planning
The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...
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...
Structures
Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.
Dreaming of Skyscrapers
Mario Gagliardi 2006.
Blacker Box
Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017
Bones, Stones, Sticks, & Stones
Digital photography and manipulation on paper.
Stories of the Future
A generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated: http://mar...
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...
Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons
In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...
Kunio Makaewa
Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...
Pieter Bruegel
During his lifetime, Pieter Bruegel the Elder was already among the period’s most sought-after art...
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...
Future City : Dr. Noki
As part of FUTURE CITY at MAK Vienna, curated by Mario Gagliardi, we made a photoshoot to illustrate...
Dawson
Yukon Territory, Canada
Territorium: Ars - Techne-Krafts-Cosmovisión
Colección de imágenes que soportan investigación a nivel de postgrado: Maestría
Estudios Territ...
Fashion, Food, Transport
FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...
Architecture
Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.
Writing & Design
Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...
Writing & Design
Birdee, Tweet! Writer and Illustrator.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Highways: Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Horizon Homes: Living a Concrete Dream. Writer and Designer, Ted Wells.
Writing & Design
Artists Abroad: A Woman´s Journey to Discover the Artists. Writer and Illustrator.
Writing & Design
Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Nofearatutu. Writer and Illustrator, Ted Wells.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...
Hoi An
Ancient Town in Vietnam and South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century
2...
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curve wood
Title is affranchir la ligne, a public art commission for the lobby of a sports complex, plays with...
briller par son absence
burn wood
Bus station
Photos captured as a part of incomplete project looking to be completed.
Twenty Twentyone
Impressions from Vienna in the latter half of 2021. Images by Mario Gagliardi.
Parallel Universe
Sometimes, you can catch one of these scenes when things seem less real, as if another version of re...
Surface N° 2
Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...
String Theory: Architecture of Connections
This speculative project starts with the idea that space is not defined by volume, but by connectio...
Coloured stones
The coloured stones is use Traditional Chinese Taihu Stone
Printed textures
3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...
The painted house
These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...
Candy Morandi
Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...
Casa Sperimentale
One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...
SCARABOOK
SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...
My calendar
I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...
71 views of the magic mountain
In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...
on paper books and e-books
these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...
Haribo Centennial
Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...
Last and First Men
The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...
el cairel II
turistic housing complex buit in reinforced concret
The Demonstrations series.
A new series of paintings, oil on canvas, that deal with movement, the power and energy of the crowd...
Curtains
A series of watercolour paintings.
No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil
A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...
Ebb and Flow
This student design project smartly uses paper to give shape to the intertidal coastline of Taiwan, ...
Pulp architecture
The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...
Dovecote-Granary
Tiago Do Vale took on the admirable task of restoring two maize granaries as examples for disappeari...
Culinary Tradition
Four examples of contemporary food packaging designs inspired by traditional Chinese patterns and gr...
TRIAL
Old-school postal packaging usually gets little attention from graphic designers. Not so in this fun...
Archip-elles
Swiss graphic designers We Play created this pop-art inspired, fun poster series for the Archipelles...
Kids House
For Inwayi Kids House in Ningbo City, China, designer Nono Xia of graphic design studio Ninemix cam...
Origami envelopes
Origami Envelopes have a special place in Japanese gift-giving culture. The four envelopes here rep...
Les Concerts du mercredi
The idea of Swiss based graphic design practice We Play Design for these posters for Les Concerts du...
Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming
Although this is for an exhibition of Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima at Shanghai Minsh...
Yokohama Museum of Art Calendar
Graphic designers Aizawa office from Yokohama designed this wall calendar. With its unassuming but a...
Core Agora
These shop pavillions in an area of a hotel complex in Greece, designed by Not a Number Architects, ...
Sonata
Sonata, a multi-housing project in Merida, Mexico, was designed by Mexican practice Arkham. Partly e...
K11 Musea
Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...
Lotus Zen House
The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...
Laurel Hills Residence
A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...
House 33
House No 33 by Uemori Masaaki and Uemori Kokutou: A fantastic example on how contemporary architectu...
Pulp Fiction
A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.
Spring 2020 - Project 2 - MassArt
A school project in which we had to redesign a small triangle shape park near Harvard Square in Camb...
Architectural sculptures
Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...
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