penccil
   penccil members include people from design studios including Design Group Italia and Map Project Office, from fashion brands including Rockstar Original and Tiffany & Co, from design retailers such as Waitrose or Welcome Co. Japan, from architecture and engineering firms such as Collins and Turner, Aecom or Laing O’Rourke, from galleries and museums such as Massimo De Carlo and the Centre Pompidou, and from universities including Rhode Island, Sci-Arc, Columbia, Berkeley and Yale.
https://www.penccil.com
  Inspirations.  
    
       
           Time        
 
        
          
    
        
           How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? 
Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Aura: Clouds of Knowledge        
 
        
          
    
        
           Aura is an augmented reality concept for historical sites, galleries and museums. Once a user is aro...        
 
       
    
       
           Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch        
 
        
          
    
        
           "Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch"
105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747
July 10, 11 a...        
 
       
    
       
           Emotional Personal Assistant        
 
        
          
    
        
           Intelligent Personal Assistants such as Siri or Cortana are the link between AI-powered systems and ...        
 
       
    
       
           Holodeck        
 
        
          
    
        
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Immersive sketch        
 
        
          
    
        
           Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Art Driver        
 
        
          
    
        
           A obstacle driving computer game with visual art.  Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to push obsta...        
 
       
    
       
           Emotibots        
 
        
          
    
        
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           The Joys of Ice Skating        
 
        
          
    
        
           That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be s...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           The pattern of You        
 
        
          
    
        
           Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...        
 
       
    
       
           Archeology        
 
        
          
    
        
           Philip Henry Gosse was a British 20th century naturalist and illustrator. Attempting to fit Charles ...        
 
       
    
       
           Maurice Binder        
 
        
          
    
        
           Maurice Binder was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including th...        
 
       
    
       
           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...        
 
       
    
       
           Le Drugstore Brand Identity        
 
        
          
    
        
           Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...        
 
       
    
       
           Coffee maker        
 
        
          
    
        
           Visualization of the process of coffee making. 
The aim was not to use words.        
 
       
    
       
           FASHION ADVERTISING        
 
        
          
    
        
           RESEARCH        
 
       
    
       
           ILLUSTRATION        
 
        
          
    
        
           RESEARCH        
 
       
    
       
           Geigy, Swiss and European Graphic Design        
 
        
          
    
        
           Selection of outstanding graphic design from Europe        
 
       
    
       
           Living Ink        
 
        
          
    
        
           Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Monk        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Jonathan Monk.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Tajima        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Mika Tajima.
Negative Entropy is a series of five abstract Jacquard woven portraits of in...        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Lewitt        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Sam Levitt.
TEMPLATE is a book whose information emerges under programmatic erasure. Or p...        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Baldessari        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by John Baldessari.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Armleder        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by John Armleder.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Mullican        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Matt Mullican.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Weiner        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Lawrence Weiner.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Cattelan        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Maurizio Cattelan.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Brannon        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Matthew Brannon.        
 
       
    
       
           Brand        
 
        
          
    
        
           Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...        
 
       
    
       
           Identity        
 
        
          
    
        
           Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...        
 
       
    
       
           Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces        
 
        
          
    
        
           Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...        
 
       
    
       
           Mapping movement to music        
 
        
          
    
        
           This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...        
 
       
    
       
           The Menu        
 
        
          
    
        
           The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...        
 
       
    
       
           What Is A Simulation?        
 
        
          
    
        
           What is a simulation?
It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...        
 
       
    
       
           The algorithm of fashion        
 
        
          
    
        
           Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...        
 
       
    
       
           Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni        
 
        
          
    
        
           Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...        
 
       
    
       
           Groupe Garcia Ingénierie        
 
        
          
    
        
           Corporate identity. Marseille, France, 2015.        
 
       
    
       
           Akiko Masunaga        
 
        
          
    
        
           マスナガデザイン部/Art director/Designer/O型/乙女座        
 
       
    
       
           Glyph        
 
        
          
    
        
           Glyph: from Greek γλυφή, "carving," and γλύφειν, "to hollow out, engrave, carve". It is ...        
 
       
    
       
           Create Your World        
 
        
          
    
        
           An interactive creation app featuring 3D sculpture generation, object painting, camera mapping, 3D a...        
 
       
    
       
           Inter Face        
 
        
          
    
        
           Stages in the user interface design development for penccil.com, 2012-2014. Through a period of two ...        
 
       
    
       
           Management 7        
 
        
          
    
        
           7 thoughts on management: Paradox, Management, Hierarchy, Bureaucracy, Trust, Vision, Motivation. (C...        
 
       
    
       
           Tom Ngo        
 
        
          
    
        
           "Common sense and conventional practice prohibits the evolution of architecture. Through reproducing...        
 
       
    
       
           Visual Music        
 
        
          
    
        
           Viktor Hertz was born in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1983. In 2009, he started to do graphic design as a hob...        
 
       
    
       
           Ignite        
 
        
          
    
        
           "What I try to do is use technology to create representations of imagery found in nature. Technology...        
 
       
    
       
           Liqen        
 
        
          
    
        
           Liqen was born in 1980, in Vigo, a port and industrial city of Galicia, in Spain. Since very little,...        
 
       
    
       
           Xavier Antin: Printing at Home        
 
        
          
    
        
           A printer manual to disturb and disrupt the printing process.
Xavier Antin, born in 1981, lives and ...        
 
       
    
       
           72 dpi        
 
        
          
    
        
           Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...        
 
       
    
       
           Intuitive Phone        
 
        
          
    
        
           Design futures concepts for a smartphone and a portable music player (2004) by Mario Gagliardi. This...        
 
       
    
       
           Áron Jancsó        
 
        
          
    
        
           “I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...        
 
       
    
       
           AG Frozoni: We need to aim at essential things        
 
        
          
    
        
           “We need to aim at essential things, to remove every redundant effects, every useless flowering, t...        
 
       
    
       
           Andrea Guccini: 4A+1        
 
        
          
    
        
           Andrea Guccini, born in Bologna in 1993, studied at the IED in Milan. He is living and working  betw...        
 
       
    
       
           Julien Notter and Sébastien Vigne        
 
        
          
    
        
           Basé à Lausanne, Notter + Vigne est un atelier graphique fondé en 2002 par les designers Julien N...        
 
       
    
       
           Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik        
 
        
          
    
        
           Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...        
 
       
    
       
           E. Hu        
 
        
          
    
        
           Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...        
 
       
    
       
           Opie        
 
        
          
    
        
           Julian Opie studied at Goldsmiths´ College (1979-82) under Michael Craig-Martin, for whom he briefl...        
 
       
    
       
           Make War, Not Love        
 
        
          
    
        
           Digitally printed charmeuse silk series 'Touchingly Unfeeling' by Jonathan Zawada. 
Jonathan Zawada...        
 
       
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 Eden        
 
        
  
 Paper sculpture        
      
        
       
 
 Surface N° 2        
 
        
  
 Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...        
      
        
       
 
 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...        
      
        
       
 
 The painted house        
 
        
  
 These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...        
      
        
       
 
 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...        
      
        
       
 
 Ebb and Flow        
 
        
  
 This student design project smartly uses paper to give shape to the intertidal coastline of Taiwan, ...        
      
        
       
 
 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...        
      
        
       
 
 Pulp Fiction        
 
        
  
 A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.        
      
        
       
 
 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        
 
        
  
 Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...        
      
        
       
 
 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 ...        
      
        
       
 
 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        
      
        
       
 
 Gravity Sketch        
 
        
  
 Create sketches with gravity: https://www.mariogagliardi.com/gravity.html        
      
        
       
 
 Private Labels are soaring        
 
        
  
 On August 1, AP News reported the closing of stores at the New York and Chicago Magnificent Mile sho...        
      
        
       
 
 Abstract Form        
 
        
  
 Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....        
      
        
       
 
 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...        
      
        
       
 
 MG Font        
 
        
  
 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...        
      
        
       
 
 VAW        
 
        
  
 In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. 
We suggested a fundamental...        
      
        
       
 
 MAJI        
 
        
  
 MAJI Website design        
      
        
       
 
 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.        
      
        
       
 
      
      
    
      
      
        Design is as much a matter of finding problems as it is solving them.
— Bryan Lawson
        
       
     
       
        — Bryan Lawson
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