Inspirations.  

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.

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 ...

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...

Le Drugstore Brand Identity

Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...

Living Ink

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

Brand

Brand and product development project for a series of Korean premium specialty food products. (C) Ma...

Membrane

A design study for sculptural loudspeakers made from laminate membranes suspended by an external lat...

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 ...

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...

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...

DIY Ceremonies

A series of modular elements for ceremonial vessels which can be combined into various compositions,...

Cine-Teatro Garrett

In designing the proposal for the new identity and branding system for Cine-Teatro Garrett, one of t...

Low Tech can be smart and fun

A curated collection and workshop on handmade and sustainable objects, made in northern Thailand and...

Paul Rand

A selection of work by eminent American graphic designer Paul Rand.

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.

Din ディン Futura フーツラ

Fonts as glasses: Type glasses, Tokyo.

佐藤 卓 Taku Satoh

佐藤 卓　Taku Satoh 東京生まれ。東京都練馬区立関町北小学校、東京都練馬...

American Spirits

Noah Love studied at Orange Coast College and Academy of Art University San Francisco. He is art dir...

Antoine Audiau et Manuel Warosz

Antoine Audiau and Manuel Warosz started collaborating in 1993 as graphic designers. They worked on ...

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

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...

Absurd

Absurd objects are objects to question perception and expectation. These are objects which look like...

Modular Audio

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

Display

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

Intuitive IOT

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...

All about Fashion

photography, branding and packaging for Fashion by Lotta Nieminen. www.lottanieminen.com

Ace Hotel

Branding, signage, press kits, products, print ephemera and zine for Ace Hotels by Official Mfg. Co....

Culinary Branding

Restaurant design is only one part of a successful culinary identity. Beautiful identities for resta...

Typographic construction generator

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

Retro Brands

Old Logotypes from Germany.