Inspirations.  

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 ...

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...

TYPOGRAPHY

RESEARCH

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...

The algorithm of fashion

Each of these scarf patterns is unique. The production workflow involves an algorithm which creates ...

Font design for a video game

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...

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...

Áron Jancsó

“I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...

101 x 101

AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...

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...

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...

Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin

Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...

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...

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

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...

Numerical Digits 1 — 9

1 — 9 for 36 Days of Type — instagram.com/maandesign

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.

Din ディン Futura フーツラ

Fonts as glasses: Type glasses, Tokyo.

La Lettre Artistique et Moderne

Specimens from "La Lettre Artistique et Moderne" by Editions Monrocq Frères, Paris. Discovered by P...

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...

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...

I like it. What is it?

Anthony Burrill was born in Littleborough, Lancashire. After studying Graphic Design at Leeds Polyte...

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...

Futurist Aristocracy

Axis No.3, England 1935; De Stijl No.1, Netherlands 1917; Futurist Aristocracy, USA No.1, 1923; Futu...

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Blast

Selected pages form Blast No.2, London 1915.

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Le Tour de Babel, Les Reverberes

Selected pages from Les Reverberes No.2, Paris 1938, and Le Tour de Babel, France 1925.

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano

Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...

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...

Fonts by Benjamin Varin

Font design by French graphic designer Benjamin Varin. Benjamin Varin studied at the Ecole Nationale...

Patterns

Hansje van Halem graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2003 and works as an independent gra...

Crafting Letters

Kevin Cantrell studied Graphic Design at Brigham Young University. Clients include Macklemore & Ryan...

Ultra Subjective Space

The influence of western culture was not felt in Japan until after the late Edo period and the time ...

El Lissitzky and Hans Arp: The Isms

Die Kunstismen (Les Ismes de l´art, The Isms of Art), designed and published by El Lissitzky and Ha...

Kasper Pyndt

Kasper Pyndt: I am a Danish designer with a strong interest in type and print. I obtained my BA from...

More Tong

More Tong is illustrator, typographer, graphic designer and city cyclist based in Shanghai, China. M...

Colors and emotions

If the news would be the colors and emotions of the day: https://penccil.com/unformation/news.html

Gravity Typography

Simulated gravity and physical movement are applied to typed letters. Type some letters, hit enter,...

Richard Niessen

Richard Niessen (Edam-Volendam, 1972) graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 1996. Richard wo...

Card Alphabet

Typography on beautiful playing cards.

Wim Crouwel

Born in the Netherlands in 1928, Wim Crouwel trained at the Art Academy Minerva (1946–49) and afte...

Type

Fonts by Mario Gagliardi Design, 2009-2010

Superscript² Typography

Fondé à Lyon en 2006 par Pierre Delmas Bouly et Patrick Lallemand, Superscript² est un studio de ...

Edward Zajec: Creative Participation

"I turned to the use of computers in 1968. At that time I was experimenting with redundancy in my pa...

Manfred Mohr

Artificiata II (2012-2013) and Parallel Resonance series (2009-2011) by Manfred Mohr. Manfred Mohr i...

Herbert W. Franke

Herbert W. Franke is a physicist, science fiction writer, artist and author of theoretical books and...

Rasmus Koch

Work by Rasmus Koch Studio, Copenhagen. Rasmus Koch was educated at the Danish Design School. After ...

Robert Hodgin

Robert Hodgkin is artist living in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1998 with a degree in Sculpture from th...

Jaemin Lee

Graphic designer Jaemin Lee lives and works in in Seoul, Korea. He graduated with a BFA in visual co...

Massimo Vignelli 1931-2014

Massimo Vignelli was one of the most profound and canonical graphic designers of the 20th century. ...

Lettering

Graphic artist Istvan Szugyiczky studied at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. His clients include ...

Johann David Steingruber: Architektonisches Alphabet

Johann David Steingruber was an architectural designer and builder in the service of margrave Karl W...