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    These fans, made from brightly colored reed strips, display two distinct patterns on the front and the back. 
       
        
      
   
       The top of this very lightweight and sturdy basket opens by means of its flexible structure created from bent reed strips. 
       
        
      
   
       The foldable headrest is a traditional Thai design made from one single piece of wood, carved to create two interlocking parts. 
       
        
      
   
       These maracas work by way of dried seeds encased in a dried fruit shell. They are attached to wooden handles and painted in fun colors. 
       
        
      
   
       Southeast Asian dishes often come with a side of freshly washed herbs (cilantro, mint). These traditional woven cups allow the herbs to dry and dissipate water to the bottom. 
       
        
      
   
       Woven covers in intricate designs protect plates of food from flies and bugs while allowing for air circulation. 
       
        
      
   
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           SCARABOOK        
 
        
          
    
        
           SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...        
 
       
    
       
           Haribo Centennial        
 
        
          
    
        
           Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...        
 
       
    
       
           Spring 2020 - Project 2 - MassArt        
 
        
          
    
        
           A school project in which we had to redesign a small triangle shape park near Harvard Square in Camb...        
 
       
    
       
           Pierre Bonnard: The Memory of Colors        
 
        
          
    
        
           In autumn and winter 2019/20 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien presented »Pierre Bonnard - The Color...        
 
       
    
       
           Objects of Desire        
 
        
          
    
        
           »Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today«
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum
Surrealis...        
 
       
    
       
           Chromaglass        
 
        
          
    
        
           Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...        
 
       
    
       
           Nature morte/Nature vivante        
 
        
          
    
        
           Until recently, artists, designers and architects were used to working with inert, non-living materi...        
 
       
    
       
           Upcycled        
 
        
          
    
        
           Furniture design from upcycled materials: Stools from old rubber tyres, oil barrels and washing mach...        
 
       
    
       
           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 ...        
 
       
    
       
           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        
 
       
    
       
           Rudolf Belling        
 
        
          
    
        
           Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...        
 
       
    
       
           Streampal        
 
        
          
    
        
           Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...        
 
       
    
       
           The e-scooter Boom        
 
        
          
    
        
           The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...        
 
       
    
       
           Jonathan Ive leaves Apple        
 
        
          
    
        
           On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...        
 
       
    
       
           Abstract Form        
 
        
          
    
        
           Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           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.        
 
       
    
       
           The flower of a word        
 
        
          
    
        
           Type a word, hit enter, click "make GIF", then download your animated word flower at
https://marioga...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Stories of You        
 
        
          
    
        
           REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...        
 
       
    
       
           Cooking with myth        
 
        
          
    
        
           IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...        
 
       
    
       
           Emotional drones        
 
        
          
    
        
           タマ tama : ball, sphere; also jewel, spirit, soul
タマタマ tamatama : by chance
Balloon drone...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           life in color        
 
        
          
    
        
           the world in fun colors        
 
       
    
       
           Unfolding sound spaces        
 
        
          
    
        
           Conventional audio speakers require the listener to sit in a certain spot to get the best audio expe...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           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 ...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           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 ...        
 
       
    
       
           NuSA        
 
        
          
    
        
           Flags are symbols of identification. Designed at the time of the formation of a country, they transp...        
 
       
    
       
           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        
 
       
    
       
           An evolutionary algorithm for bike design        
 
        
          
    
        
           A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces        
 
        
          
    
        
           Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...        
 
       
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 my first design        
 
        
  
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 New Designs        
 
        
  
 Mario Gagliardi New Designs 2024        
      
        
       
 
 Citta design development        
 
        
  
 Images from the design development for the cabinet system "Citta" 
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Tessuto        
 
        
  
 Brass bowl "Tessuto"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa        
      
        
       
 
 Sole        
 
        
  
 Dining chair "Sole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Chicco and Onde        
 
        
  
 Pillows "Chicco" and "Onde"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Isole        
 
        
  
 Couch tables "Isole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Goccia        
 
        
  
 Side table "Goccia"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Nuvole        
 
        
  
 Shelf "Nuvole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Quadrifoglio        
 
        
  
 Side tables "Quadrifoglio"
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Paravento        
 
        
  
 Paravent "Paravento"
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Luna        
 
        
  
 Lamp "Luna"
Design: Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Khalifa        
 
        
  
 Storage unit/couch table "Khalifa" in 70/30 brass.
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Fumetto        
 
        
  
 Highback chair "Fumetto"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario & Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Libreria        
 
        
  
 Multifunctional lounge chair and lounge set "Libreria"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Cavaliere        
 
        
  
 Stool "Cavaliere"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Dadi        
 
        
  
 Brass object "Dadi".
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Villici        
 
        
  
 Wooden toy figurines "Villici"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Fabrics        
 
        
  
 Development of a silk, cotton and linen upholstery fabric line for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Ryoku        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair "Ryoku"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Catenina        
 
        
  
 Side table "Catenina"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Aurora        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair "Aurora"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Estelle        
 
        
  
 Dining chair "Estelle"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Cambia        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair "Cambia" with exchangeable seating pillows
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Circoli and Paisley        
 
        
  
 Throws "Circoli" and "Paisley". Handcrafted in Kashmir with local Cashmere wool.
Design: Mario Gagli...        
      
        
       
 
 UFO        
 
        
  
 Couch table "UFO"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Mezzaluna        
 
        
  
 Dining chairs "Mezzaluna Hi" and "Mezzaluna Lo"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Metamorfosi        
 
        
  
 Dining table series "Metamorfosi"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Amatera        
 
        
  
 Bench "Amatera"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Apero        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair "Apero" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Aitutaki        
 
        
  
 Armchair "Aitutaki" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Whiskey Bay Press Merc        
 
        
  
 Merch        
      
        
       
 
 Bookcover mockup        
 
        
  
 book cover design idea        
      
        
       
 
 Room        
 
        
  
 How light, color and space define emotions.        
      
        
       
 
 Shop Them - DR NOKI T-shirts are here!        
 
        
  
 penccil is happy to announce its launching of penccil shop <t https://penccil.com/shop with fashion ...        
      
        
       
 
 Alpina        
 
        
  
 Chair "Alpina" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Pianeti        
 
        
  
 Rug set "Pianeti", designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa. Handcrafted in 100% New Zealand M...        
      
        
       
 
 Flow        
 
        
  
 Dining Table "Flow" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Gran Turismo        
 
        
  
 Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.        
      
        
       
 
 Fairy Clouds        
 
        
  
 Always wanted to escape and fly through a fairy cloudscape? Now you can! 
This experiment uses WebG...        
      
        
       
 
 Digital Vases        
 
        
  
 A generator for digital vase forms. Move the cursor around the screen to choose colors, then click r...        
      
        
       
 
 Printed textures        
 
        
  
 3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...        
      
        
       
 
      
      
    
      
      
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