Inspirations.  

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...

S tables

modul for table

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 ...

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 ...

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...

We Ar

University of Sunderland MA Glass and Ceramics Show

Coffee maker

Visualization of the process of coffee making. The aim was not to use words.

Mapping Reality

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

TYPOGRAPHY

RESEARCH

Green Architecture…. Is it blessing or curse!!

GREEN ARCHITECTURE….IT IS GOOD FOR THE NATURAL WORLD OR MAYBE IT WILL BE A MESS OF THE TREES AND P...

Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (1920 - 2006) studied in Lausanne and Milano. He was one of the main protagonists o...

Glowscape

Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...

Structured Reflection

These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...

Gaetano Pesce: Abstraction is boring

"Abstraction is boring and limited as a mode of expression. Reducing and reducing designs means that...

Jeff Zimmerman

Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...

Home Patterns

“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...

The Menu

The food menu as we know it today is an invention of the 19th century. Traditionally, during a meal ...

American Food

Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...

Organic Public

Contemporary cities are in need of public spaces which work better for their citizens. This proposal...

Michael Schoner

Michael Schoner develops 3D and 2D designs in different scales varying from architecture and interio...

Design for Disaster

"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...

Memphis Posters

4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.

A Flat Named Desire

An inspirational collection of interior objects.

A Summer For The Modernists

"Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and bec...

Joe Colombo: Total Furnishing Unit

The Total furnishing unit: Bathroom by Joe Colombo, Milano 1971.

Pillars

Consisting of connected bricks whose relative position can be altered by changing underlying paramet...

Inspiration

Things which inspire me https://soundcloud.com/myrne/architect https://vimeo.com/173541384

Brazil Modernism

20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...

Carlo Scarpa: Sketch and Work

There is hardly another architect of the 20th century in whose work the progression from sketch to c...

The Bauhaus Revolution

The Bauhaus was the most influential design school of the 20th century. See more in the new magazin...

Heartbeat, Heartseat

Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...

Swarm fabrication: Kokkugia / Roland Snooks

We have a fascination with the impact of new technologies on architecture and construction. We are f...

This City

This City is an audio-visual piece performed as musical alter-ego Mark Eats. It explores what happen...

ЯРОСЛАВ МИСОНЖНИКОВ: ODNOSVECHNIK

ODNOSVECHNIK is a candle holder in marble and wood. Designer Yaroslav Misonzhnikov, born 1988 in ...

Liqen

Liqen was born in 1980, in Vigo, a port and industrial city of Galicia, in Spain. Since very little,...

20th Century Italian Tables

A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.

Tea Time

TEA AVE es una marca Canadiense de Tés Oolong. Nos pidieron el desarrollo de la imagen gráfica, la...

The future of traveling - Projects

Project results of the workshop on the future of hospitality, tourism and traveling led by Mario Gag...

Jewelry Design Art

Jewelry Art design pattern inspired from nonlinear dynamics. Drawings collection about fluid flows...

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...

Colliding Worlds

Architectural models of small planets appear in unexpected places. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2007

Luigi Colani

Colani studied sculpture and painting at the Academy of Arts, Berlin and aerodynamics at the Sorbonn...

Small Buildings

Photographer Eric Tabuchi, born 1959, lives and works in Paris.

Raymundo Colares

Raymundo Colares (1944 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais - 1986 in Montes Claros, Minas Gerais) was a Bra...

Bracq

Paul Bracq´s career began in the design studio of Philippe Charbonneaux, where he served as Charbon...

Air Luxe

Lavish food offerings and smiling stewardesses in fashionable outfits in economy class, upper deck p...

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...

A+A Cooren

A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...

Function Follows Form

Formlab is a series of photos generated by an ongoing process for inspiration, random objects are co...

Radiofonografo RR126

The Brionvega RR126, designed by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni in 1965, was a remarkable inno...

The Many Sides of the Moon

Variations on light refraction patterns through a prism, in a set-up reminding on the iconic cover o...

Poise

Two Create was founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Lucy and Tobie Snowdowne. The couple met whi...

Wonderland

Anna Lomax is a maker and collector, working within the field of Creative Direction and Set Design f...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Circuit

The Jumper Circuit by Qmod, designed by Dana Callam, is made to pulse small bits of Voltage found in...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...

Aspartame: Adrien Rovero

Born in 1981, Adrien Rovero holds a Master’s in Industrial Design from ECAL Lausanne. He opened hi...