Inspirations.  

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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

MG Font

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

Stories of the Future

A generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated: http://mar...

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...

MAJI

MAJI Website design

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...

Writing & Design

Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...

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 & Exhibition

Art That Matters. Writer and Designer.

Design

Auguste Rodin Eye Chart. Poster. Letterpress.

Writing & Design

Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.

Writing & Design

Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

S tables

modul for table

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...

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...

Semantic Space Invaders

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

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 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...

Flow

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

The Joys of Ice Skating

That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be s...

Breathe

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