Inspirations.  

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...

Multifunctional tableware

Inspired by the culture, cuisine and hospitality of the ancient silk road, this ceramics series cons...

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...

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 ...

Flow

Flow simulations on car designs. Surfaces in red show the highest resistance. (C) MGD 2010.

Breathe

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

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 ...

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...

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...

Watch UX

A UX study for a smart watch with a digital interface from 2004. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

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

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...

The Menu

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

Organic Public

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

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.

Jean Lurçat

Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...

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...

Inspiration

Things which inspire me https://soundcloud.com/myrne/architect https://vimeo.com/173541384

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...

Struth: Nature & Politics

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

In Orbit

"When I look at these complex layers of translucent lines and spheres, I am reminded of models of th...

This City

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

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange

Eric Giraudet de Boudemange (1983) graduated in 2007 from the National School of Fine Arts in Paris ...

ЯРОСЛАВ МИСОНЖНИКОВ: ODNOSVECHNIK

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

Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier

Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...

Francois Morellet 1926 - 2016

Since he first began making work in the 1950s, Morellet has been engaged in creating work which has ...

Design & Politics

Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...

20th Century Italian Tables

A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.

Xavier Antin: Printing at Home

A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process. Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...

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...

Jewelry Design Art

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

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/D" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron and Murano Glass Vase, Limited Edition of 6, numbered and signed by th...

BASILE ARTECO "Ferro/A" design Enzo Mari

DESIGN ENZO MARI: Forged iron fruit-bowl Limited Edition of 4, numbered and signed by the Author Enz...

BASILE ARTECO "Monoblocco/L" design Donata Paruccini

DESIGN DONATA PARUCCINI: pen holder

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...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Jean-Jaques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...

Rayan Ayash

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

Amor Vacui

Domink von Moos, born 1990, studied architecture at ETH Zurich.

Luigi Colani

Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

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...