penccil: Create Your World

Create Your World

An interactive creation app featuring 3D sculpture generation, object painting, camera mapping, 3D avatars, and 3D galleries, designed in 2008.
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Inspirations.

The shape of clouds

"Outside, the land stretches, empty, to the horizon; the sky opens, with speeding clouds. In the sha...

One Hundred Thousand Games

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

Thames & Hudson

As conventional book sales decrease, book publishers have to come up with innovative strategies for ...

Emoji Superhighway

With AR technology, virtual information will soon be projected on car windshields. What would happen...

A obstacle driving computer game with visual art. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to push obsta...

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

Semantic Space Invaders

Semantic Space Invaders is a computer game in which the gameplay is happening entirely in your perce...

Cellular Letters

An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...

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...

Flags are symbols of identification. Designed at the time of the formation of a country, they transp...

The pattern of You

Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...

Philip Henry Gosse was a British 20th century naturalist and illustrator. Attempting to fit Charles ...

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...

An evolutionary algorithm for bike design

A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test...

Attraction - Repulsion

An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...

Streetwear Catwalk

In street fashion, ways of walking, gestures and postures are as much part of fashion as the outfit....

Neverending Graphics

Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...

Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...

Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...

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...

Structured Reflection

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

Intelligent Personal Assistants

If artificial intelligence would be personalized, what face could these personal assistants have? Th...

Mapping movement to music

This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...

The algorithm of fashion

Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...

Glyph: from Greek γλυφή, "carving," and γλύφειν, "to hollow out, engrave, carve". It is ...

Give following instructions: Cut a strip off a piece of paper and give it one twist. Glue the ends t...

Stages in the user interface design development for penccil.com, 2012-2014. Through a period of two ...

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...

Plates decorated with stylized prints of stereotypical food items: a hot dog, a steak, a slice of pi...

Place cards for business meetings: Graphics of common business metaphors are placed in front of meet...

Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.

Contingency, Complexity, Symmetry

Patterns are all around us in architecture, graphics, or art. The Arabesque is a type of ornament wh...

Graphics generated on the basis of selected passages in Mozart´s Piano Sonatas, 2012.

Colors and emotions

If the news would be the colors and emotions of the day: https://penccil.com/unformation/news.html

Gravity Typography

Simulated gravity and physical movement are applied to typed letters. Type some letters, hit enter,...

Fonts by Mario Gagliardi Design, 2009-2010

Luxury redefined

The history of Whoo 后, a luxury cosmetics line designed by Mario Gagliardi for LG Household and He...

Geometric Pentimento

A pentimento is a trace of a previous work in a painting, showing where an artist corrected parts of...

Design studies for audio devices. Different audio modules - receiver, amplifier etc - are conceived ...

Study for a large scale interior projection. Mario Gagliardi 2002.

Design studies for domestic IoT (Internet of Things) Hubs for an electronics manufacturer. Full IoT ...

Atmospheric airplane interior

Airplane interior studies. The sourrounding skyscape is projected onto the airplane ceiling to bring...

Parametric speaker

A parametric design inspired by organic forms. The speakers are spatially distributed in all directi...

Early Designs: Three Chairs, and a lamp. Mario Gagliardi 1992.

Typographic construction generator

This typographic generator creates letters by connecting points within the constraints of letter out...

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Always wanted to escape and fly through a fairy cloudscape? Now you can! This experiment uses WebG...

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-...

Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...

Synthetic Paradise

Generative music combined with abstract graphics. Click the screen to generate new graphics: https:/...

Generative Alphabet

Numbers and Letterforms created by an algorithm. © Mario Gagliardi Design 2019.

Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...

Omnidirectional microphone

Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...

A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018

Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...

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...

4 second universe

Watch fractal spaces being created every 4 seconds: https://www.mariogagliardi.com/universe.html

Create sketches with gravity: https://www.mariogagliardi.com/gravity.html

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...

Generative Botany

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

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...

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

An extravagant yet versatile and surprisingly readable font for headlines and quotes. (C) Mario Gagl...

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...

In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...

MAJI Website design

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...

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...

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...

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...

Aura: Clouds of Knowledge

Aura is an augmented reality concept for historical sites, galleries and museums. Once a user is aro...

Emotional Personal Assistant

Intelligent Personal Assistants such as Siri or Cortana are the link between AI-powered systems and ...

A vitual holodeck where experimental objects are constantly being built and unbuilt. Move your mouse...

Mechanical Suprematist

Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...