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A platform for creative people

by MGD Digital

An overview of penccil.com, the visual culture sharing platform developed by Mario Gagliardi Design in 2012.

How it started In 2012, MGD designed penccil.com as a web platform for collaborative creativity.

What does penccil do? penccil.com creates online galleries from user-submitted images and provides in-browser collaboration tools.

from toolset to social network From its initial concept of a creative collaboration platform, penccil has grown into a social network for creative people.

Projects Design collective Pinwu - Zhang Lei, Christoph John and Jovana Bogdanovic - are collaborating in Yuhang, China, to re-interpret traditional Chinese crafts.

Penique productions is a collective of artists from Barcelona. They specialize in changing interiors by means of inflatable balloons, thereby creating unique spatial experiences.

Pascal Broccolichi is a sound designer who explores the boundaries of acoustic design, turning spaces into new acoustic experiences.

Soderlund Davidson is a British-Swedish couple designing together. Here a cake stand / candle holder series made in their own workshop.

Simon Porte Jacquemus is an up-and-coming 24-year-old French designer who started his own fashion label in Paris at the age of 19.

Merve Kahraman is a furniture designer from Istanbul who made a stir in Turkey with a profound sense of humor in her creations.

Photographer Huang Qingjun portraits families all over China together with all their worldly possessions.

Leonor Brilha is a young Portuguese mural painter telling both traditional and personal stories with large-scale murals in Lisbon.

Paying Forward: penccil members showcasing their own work and introduce the work of friends and people whose work they admire.

Huang Quingjun

Soderlund Davidson: installation, theater workshop, boutique.

Simon tells stories of his generation with high fashion set in locations of his childhood, such as a modernist seaside resort town in France which for him is both nostalgic and alienating.