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3D printed light bulbs enable many exciting new form factors.
Light pipes inside the bulbs can direct light and create internal patterns.
Complex shapes can be designed and used with energy efficient LED light sources.
Inspirations.
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
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.
Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...
Telepathic Light
Light installations for Cosa Mentale: Imaginaries of Telepathy of the 20th-Century Art in Centre Pom...
Mass, space, plane and line
"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...
Superheroes
Paola Mathe, born in Petionville, Haiti, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in econom...
Serge Mouille
Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...
Angelo Mangiarotti
Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milano in 1921. He graduated in Architecture in 1948 at Politecnico d...
Alessio Bassan
Alessio Bassan: born in 1962, I live and work in Thiene, Italy. Self-taught Designer, from almost im...
Louis Weisdorf: Multi-Lite and Turbo
Louis Weisdorf (born 1939) graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts´ School of Architec...
Bjørn van den Berg
Bjørn van den Berg (b. 1988) graduated from the Master program in Product Design at Oslo and Akersh...
Sadamitsu Neil Fujita
Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...
Stan Galli
Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...
Spacecraft
Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...
Mirrors
Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...
The Way Of The Light
Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...
Radebaugh and Bohn
Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...
Silent Geography
Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...
John James Audubon and the Golden Eagle
R Kikuo Johnson grew up on the island of Maui. He began a career in cartooning and illustration wit...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Afflicted Objects
"When I was 22 years old I found myself pacing the hallucinogenic black & white sidewalks of Rio de ...
Fisherman
Pendant lamp 'Fisherman' by TAF, a Stockholm based design and architecture studio founded by Gabriel...
Ramona Rosales Portraits
Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.
Low Tech
Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...
Luciferase
A series of table lights in Epoxy resin, colored pigment, sand, silicone, steel and LEDs. Nacho Carb...
New York by Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...
La Estirada
La Estirada by Jordi Canudas: Light experiments based on the idea of capturing light while traveling...
Things As They Are
Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...
Two Glass
Two Create was founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Lucy and Tobie Snowdowne. The couple met whi...
Tensegrity
If there is some sort of thread that travels through the life of Raimond Puts (1937 - 2012) then it ...
Pryor Console
The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...
Le Moigne
Swiss designer Nicholas Le Moigne studied at ECAL/University of art and design Lausanne, where he is...
Postcards from Miami
Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi
The Art of Ralph McQarrie
Ralph Angus McQuarrie studied at the Art Center School in Pasadena. He first worked for a dentistry ...
Printed Lamps
3D printed Hanging lamps by Studio Meraldi and Rubini. Matteo Meraldi and Marco Rubini met in 2009 a...
Icons of American Design: George Nelson
"Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of ...
Deutschland
Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...
Supercenter disruptions
Mass: an installation project about creating visual disruptions in places of mass. Mass is a site sp...
Sisyphus
"Motion Control" is an industry term for computer-controlled movement in applications like robotics ...
Paolo Cirio: Overexposed
This artwork is composed of a series of nine unauthorized photos of high-ranking U.S. intelligence o...
Matteo Zorzenoni
Matteo Zorzenoni's projects have been exhibited at Maxxi Museum in Rome, Biennale d’Arte and Desig...
Architectural Fun Ride
Borrowing language from roller coasters, the “Architectural Fun Ride” is a block-long, program-l...
Fresh White
Four major arcana here: Fresh White is at a turning point, and a very positive one. The Sun and the ...
Amir Zaki: Southern California
Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...
Lighting
Okura Toshihito was born in Toyama Prefecture in Japan. He studied at Kuwasawa Design School and was...
Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...
LIGHT and SHADOW
YOY (ヨイ) は、空間デザイナーの小野直紀とプロダクトデザイナーの山本侑...
FLOAT
A lamp that is floating in the air. Inside the lampshade there are 2 motors to move the lamp, which ...
François Azambourg: Lighting
Born in Angoulême in 1963, François Azambourg studied at the Institut Lemonnier at Caen and at th...
Désormeaux/Carrette
Désormeaux/Carrette was established in 2014 by French designers Nathanaël Désormeaux and Damien C...
Shannon Goff
Shannon Goff works with sculpture, ceramics, and drawing. Goff received a BFA from University of Mic...
Light installations
Studio Drift was founded in 2006 by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn. Lonneke Gordijn studied at Desi...
Something bright
Labo is a collection of lamps made from borosilicate glass, inspired by instruments from chemistry l...
Stars in your eyes
Tim Lahan is an artist and illustrator living and working in New York. He’s the author of The Nosy...
PHOTOGENESIS
Material: translucent porcelain
Data sheet : 100-240V, 42 led, 10W,
The light source is exchange...
Paul Rand
A selection of work by eminent American graphic designer Paul Rand.
Islamic Art Now
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middl...
Jordi López Aguiló
Jordi López Aguiló, born in Valencia 1983, worked with JDS Architects Copenhagen, Ibos et Vitart P...
Constructing the sixties
"My personal practice focuses on America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of stag...
Pili Wu: Plastic Classic
Pili Wu (b. 1986) is a graduate of the Industrial Design Department of Shih-Chien University (Taiwan...
Frederik Delbart: Functional
Frederik Delbart Design Studio is located in Brussels and Hasselt (Belgium). Frederik Delbart thinks...
Light is a Vector
Lighting designer Arnout Meijer was born in Rotterdam in 1988. He studied design at Design Academy E...
Ghia Gilda
Chrysler’s executive Virgil Exner commissioned the Gilda showcar in 1955. It was designed by desig...
Richard Estes´ New York
"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...
Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva: Nature vs. Nurture
Collages by Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva, a Bulgarian born, Detroit based artist.
Libor Sosták
Libor Sosták, born 1987 in Vsetin, studied Product Design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague....
Exit Eden
Doug Fogelson studied photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College...
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New Designs
Mario Gagliardi New Designs 2024
Luna
Lamp "Luna"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Printed textures
3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...
Candy Morandi
Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...
Laurel Hills Residence
A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...
Los Angeles
Traveling with Google Maps
Chromaglass
Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...
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 ...
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Essential Water
In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...
Blacker Box
Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017
Podchain
Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
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...
Intelligent Personal Assistants
If artificial intelligence would be personalized, what face could these personal assistants have? Th...
Mapping movement to music
This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...
Jeff Zimmerman
Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...
American Food
Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...
The algorithm of fashion
Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...
Strip
Give following instructions: Cut a strip off a piece of paper and give it one twist. Glue the ends t...
Heartbeat, Heartseat
Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...
This City
This City is an audio-visual piece performed as musical alter-ego Mark Eats. It explores what happen...
The Glass House
"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...
