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Inspirations.
Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass
The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...
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...
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 ...
Lucha Libre
A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...
Versuchsaufbau A
Die Grundidee des Versuchsaufbaus–A beruht auf dem System der astronomischen Sonnenuhr. Sonnenuhre...
Ramona Rosales Portraits
Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.
Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin
Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...
Low Tech
Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...
New York by Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...
Things As They Are
Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...
Pryor Console
The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...
New Patterns
my new patterns
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 ...
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...
Brutalist impressions
made with grab to curate.
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...
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 ...
Numerical Digits 1 — 9
1 — 9 for 36 Days of Type
— instagram.com/maandesign
Amir Zaki: Southern California
Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...
Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...
Shannon Goff
Shannon Goff works with sculpture, ceramics, and drawing. Goff received a BFA from University of Mic...
Stars in your eyes
Tim Lahan is an artist and illustrator living and working in New York. He’s the author of The Nosy...
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...
Constructing the sixties
"My personal practice focuses on America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of stag...
Din ディン Futura フーツラ
Fonts as glasses: Type glasses, Tokyo.
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.
Exit Eden
Doug Fogelson studied photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College...
1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a maste...
Trylon and Perisphere
Images from the New York World´s Fair 1939.
The Tallest Buildings in the World
The tallest buildings in the world in 1901 New York City and other images from the United States aro...
La Lettre Artistique et Moderne
Specimens from "La Lettre Artistique et Moderne" by Editions Monrocq Frères, Paris.
Discovered by P...
You belong here
It is New Orleans’ distinct history that makes it an illuminating source of philosophical inquiry ...
Sturtevant Double Trouble
Elaine Sturtevant understands the power of images. The American artist who worked most of her life i...
Herb Aach: Color Theory
Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...
Karl Martens
Karel Martens is a Dutch designer and teacher. After training at the school of art in Arnhem, he has...
The Same But Different
Graphic designer Jan Avendano lives and works in Toronto. She is available for coffee hangouts, col...
LIVE / WORK
So what’s this exhibition all about, anyway? Well, these are infertile female harvester worker ant...
Now whip it / into shape / shape it up / get straight / go forward / move ahead
Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 ...
Corbin Mahieu
Corbin Mahieu is a Ghent based graphic designer. He studied graphic design at Saint-Lucas, Ghent and...
Takeshi Okada
Graphic designer Takeshi Okada, born in Hokkaido / Sapporo, skillfully combines Japanese and Western...
Vicky Moon: Mid-century Modern
Vicky Moon is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA with a B.F.A. in Photograph...
site specific
Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations. His work has been exh...
Joel Sternfeld: On This Site
Joel Sternfeld was born 1944 in New York. He earned a BA in Art from Dartmouth College in 1965. He b...
An Entangled World: The Art of Judith Scott
Judith Scott (May 1, 1943 – March 15, 2005) was a pioneering American sculptor and textile artist....
I like it. What is it?
Anthony Burrill was born in Littleborough, Lancashire. After studying Graphic Design at Leeds Polyte...
Modular Constructivism: Norman Carlberg and Erwin Hauer
Norman Carlberg (born 1928) studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illino...
Jason Munn
Jason Munn (1975) grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin, but now calls Oakland, California home. He began mak...
Where Do I End And The World Begins: Hubert & Fischer
Founded by Philipp Hubert and Sebastian Fischer, Hubert & Fischer is a design studio with offices in...
Michael DeLucia: Sculptures
Michael DeLucia was born 1978 in Rochester, NY. He studied at Rhode Island School of Design and at R...
Donald Judd: Sculptures
Donald Judd began as a painter, his paintings developing in the early 1960s into low-reliefs, then i...
Donald Judd: Graphics
Donald Judd began as a painter. His paintings developed in the early 1960s into low-reliefs, then in...
Hello Kitty Culture
The iconic Hello Kitty turned forty in 2014. Sanrio and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)...
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Laurel Hills Residence
A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...
Los Angeles
Traveling with Google Maps
Generative Alphabet
Numbers and Letterforms created by an algorithm. © Mario Gagliardi Design 2019.
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Cognition
This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...
MG Font
An extravagant yet versatile and surprisingly readable font for headlines and quotes.
(C) Mario Gagl...
Typography
Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.
Writing & Design
Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...
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 & Exhibition
Art That Matters. Writer and Designer.
Design
Auguste Rodin Eye Chart. Poster. Letterpress.
Writing & Design
Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.
Writing & Design
Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...
Cellular Letters
An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...
Grabbed
Attraction - Repulsion
An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...
BKM/Barozzi/Veiga
The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...
TYPOGRAPHY
RESEARCH
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
penccil gifs
gifs from penccil projects.
Chromatic seating
3 colorful seats by 3 Italian designers: Giancarlo Zema graduated from the Faculty of Architecture o...
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 ...
What Is A Simulation?
What is a simulation?
It is a private game we devise when the aliveness of a situation is too comple...
Michael Schoner
Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...
Font design for a video game
Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni
Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...
Sky Walk
The Dolní Morava tower Sky Walk by Zdenek Franek is a conceptual building, and it offers visitors ...
Akiko Masunaga
マスナガデザイン部／Art director／Designer／Ｏ型／乙女座
Glyph
Glyph: from Greek γλυφή, "carving," and γλύφειν, "to hollow out, engrave, carve". It is ...
Inspiration
Things which inspire me
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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...
The Oily Actor
“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
Áron Jancsó
“I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...
Palmyra, End of March, 2016
Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...
Luigi Colani
Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...
Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...
