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However, their symbolic meaning for a nation state is also regularly taken by populists to further their own interests.
Inevitably, all countries have profoundly changed since their flag was designed. What if a flag would instead be a more realistic, constantly updated symbol, representing the current development of a country, its growing complexity, its interweaving strands of history?
Check out our prototypes for flags in progress:
USA: http://www.penccil.com/unformation/flag.html UK: http://www.penccil.com/unformation/flag1.html Denmark: http://www.penccil.com/unformation/flag2.html
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Inspirations.
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Imagine Fashion
In a quest for expression and identity, artists make imaginative worlds visible and preserve fleeting moments of beauty.

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Designers & Makers
There is a focus again on making things with creativity and quality. A new generation of makers, artisans and designers look at new ways of working and making.

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The Bauhaus Revolution
The Bauhaus: it's People, Politics, Art, Design and Architecture.

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Superwall
SUPERWALL is the wall for the latest and greatest in visual art. Our focus is on the visceral, the sublime, the surprising, the profound, and the accidentally found.

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DESIGN DIY
The design process has to become circular. DESIGN DIY is changing the way we create our living and working spaces and makes us rethink production, consumption, and the way we live ...

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House Now
Does contemporary architecture make us feel at home?

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New Design Materials
Balloons or recycled fiber for fashion, wood chip resins made into lightweight foam for chairs, recycled plastic extruded by a robot: New materials and what can be done with them -...

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Generative Art
Art, videos and music created with algorithms. Post your demos, videos, music pieces and images of generative art. Or use the generative design tools here in penccil to create amaz...

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BRUTALISM
BRUTALISM is a magazine of remarkable architecture. Brutalist architecture combines early modernist ideas with post-war rationality. Usually built in concrete, brutalist structures...

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The Elements in Design
Artists, designers and architects work with the elements of nature.

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 ...
life in color
the world in fun colors
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...
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...
Living Ink
Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...
Identity
Corporate Identity development for Qatar Foundation, 2007. Public facing spaces: interiors, exterior...
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...
Thai Silk and Rattan
In Thailand, Mario Gagliardi directed a collaboration with silk weavers from Buri Ram and rattan fur...
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...
Strip
Give following instructions: Cut a strip off a piece of paper and give it one twist. Glue the ends t...
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...
Mimicry and Makeshift
Two future visions for urbanism and ownership:
Mimicry city - where everything wants to be owned. As...
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.
Manufactured Landscapes
We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...
Color constructions
The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...
Telepathic Light
Light installations for Cosa Mentale: Imaginaries of Telepathy of the 20th-Century Art in Centre Pom...
101 x 101
AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...
Function Follows Form
Formlab is a series of photos generated by an ongoing process for inspiration, random objects are co...
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...
CHROMAesthesiae
CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...
Travel Stories
Images from Taichung, Taiwan; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Berlin, Germany; Frankfu...
Seen or remembered
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Ben...
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...
Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromointerference
"Color is not simply the color of things or the color of form, but an evolving situation, a reality ...
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.
The Fans
The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one ...
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...
A Feast Of Colours
Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...
Rana Begum: Work on Paper
Rana Begum studied at University of Hertfordshire, Chelsea College of Art and Design and at Slade Sc...
Mathieu Missiaen
Photographer Mathieu Missiaen is interested in the ways in which people will identify the reality of...
Ultra Subjective Space
The influence of western culture was not felt in Japan until after the late Edo period and the time ...