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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 ...

chair_ONE

chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...

Cazal

Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

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

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...

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

Stories of the Future

A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.

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...

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...

Territorium: Ars - Techne-Krafts-Cosmovisión

Colección de imágenes que soportan investigación a nivel de postgrado: Maestría Estudios Territ...

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

Writing & Design

Birdee, Tweet! Writer and Illustrator.

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

Auguste Rodin Eye Chart. Poster. Letterpress.

Writing & Design

Nofearatutu. Writer and Illustrator, Ted Wells.

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...

An organic structure for bikes

A sports bike for urban and mountain environments. The aluminium frame provides for increased stabil...

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...

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One Hundred Thousand Games

One Hundred Thousand Games is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...

Emotibots

Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...

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 ...

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,...

City Garden II ´Spaces´

Family garden for 5: spacy rooms

Charles Tassin

Interior designer Charles Tassin has developed a very personal approach to decoration. Merging the s...

penccil: This was 2017

The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...

Cutting the edges

Arctic Paper launches new swatch books for the brands Arctic, Amber and G-Print, as well as the two ...

The pattern of You

Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...

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...

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University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

Maurice Binder

Maurice Binder was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including th...

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...

Mapping Reality

During a walk through Berlin Moabit I sketched my perception of the surrounding streets. The result ...

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Geigy, Swiss and European Graphic Design

Selection of outstanding graphic design from Europe