Living Ink
http://www.penccil.com/evolutionarypainter.php (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2012
Inspirations.
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
Identity
Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...
Membrane
A design study for sculptural loudspeakers made from laminate membranes suspended by an external lat...
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...
Structured Reflection
These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...
Mapping movement to music
This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...
Watch UX
A UX study for a smart watch with a digital interface from 2004. (C) Mario Gagliardi
The algorithm of fashion
Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...
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 ...
Pillars
Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...
Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks
We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...
Spatial Clusters
"Refined nature consists of evolved technology such as robotics, artificial intelligence, cybernetic...
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...
F zero zero d
Plates decorated with stylized prints of stereotypical food items: a hot dog, a steak, a slice of pi...
Place cards
Place cards for business meetings: Graphics of common business metaphors are placed in front of meet...
Futures
Animated GIFs illustrating speculative future scenarios. Mario Gagliardi 2004.
Korean containers
A formal exploration of ceramic food containers inspired by Korean traditional forms. (C) Mario Gagl...
101 x 101
AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...
picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself
picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself is a curatorial poetry collabor...
DIY Ceremonies
A series of modular elements for ceremonial vessels which can be combined into various compositions,...
Cladding
Parametric design variations for a concrete facade cladding system manufactured by 3D printing. (C) ...
Fractal facades
Architectural detail studies generated by fractal algorithms.
Event Horizon
Sci-Fi Environments generated by fractal algorithms. Mario Gagliardi Design 2015.
Genceri
Generative architecture studies inspired by the "Carceri" (prisons) by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. M...
Printed Stone Fields
This project has started from a search for a 3d-objects optimal packing algorithm over a surface, bu...
Sisyphus
"Motion Control" is an industry term for computer-controlled movement in applications like robotics ...
Daniel Widrig
Daniel Widrig founded his studio in London in 2009. After graduating from the Architectural Associat...
Low Tech can be smart and fun
A curated collection and workshop on handmade and sustainable objects, made in northern Thailand and...
Contingency, Complexity, Symmetry
Patterns are all around us in architecture, graphics, or art. The Arabesque is a type of ornament wh...
Resonance
Graphics generated on the basis of selected passages in Mozart´s Piano Sonatas, 2012.
Studio FIELD: Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn
Studio FIELD is Marcus Wendt and Vera-Maria Glahn, both of which studied at the School of Arts and D...
Ultra Subjective Space
The influence of western culture was not felt in Japan until after the late Edo period and the time ...
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,...
Type
Fonts by Mario Gagliardi Design, 2009-2010
Edward Zajec: Creative Participation
"I turned to the use of computers in 1968. At that time I was experimenting with redundancy in my pa...
Manfred Mohr
Artificiata II (2012-2013) and Parallel Resonance series (2009-2011) by Manfred Mohr. Manfred Mohr i...
Herbert W. Franke
Herbert W. Franke is a physicist, science fiction writer, artist and author of theoretical books and...
Robert Hodgin
Robert Hodgkin is artist living in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1998 with a degree in Sculpture from th...
Luxury redefined
The history of Whoo 后, a luxury cosmetics line designed by Mario Gagliardi for LG Household and He...
Vague Affinities
Generative art by Giuseppe Randazzo. Guiseppe lives and works in Torino.
Geometric Pentimento
A pentimento is a trace of a previous work in a painting, showing where an artist corrected parts of...
Absurd
Absurd objects are objects to question perception and expectation. These are objects which look like...
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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-...
The painted house
These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and gr...
Candy Morandi
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
Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...
HYFY
HYFY is a project to rethink the functions, structures and formal expressions of audio hardware.
Arte generativo
Ejemplos de arte generativo que sirvan de inspiración
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
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
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...
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...
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...
VAW
In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week.
We suggested a fundamental...
MAJI
MAJI Website design
Podchain
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...
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...
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