An evolutionary algorithm for bike design
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A learning algorithm randomly creates simplified body designs for bikes. As they race along the test track, the best performing bike shapes get selected. Race your own to see which bike design ist best adapted to the track at
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  Inspirations.  
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.
The EU Game
A French board game from the nineteen-fifties including hazards and a pan-european currency.
Luxury redefined
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Device 6
A surreal thriller in which the written word is your map, as well as your narrator. DEVICE 6 by Simo...
Machinarium
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Parallax
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Modular Audio
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Display
Study for a large scale interior projection. Mario Gagliardi 2002.
Intuitive IOT
Design studies for domestic IoT (Internet of Things) Hubs for an electronics manufacturer. Full IoT ...
Atmospheric airplane interior
Airplane interior studies. The sourrounding skyscape is projected onto the airplane ceiling to bring...
Parametric speaker
A parametric design inspired by organic forms. The speakers are spatially distributed in all directi...
Three Chairs
Early Designs: Three Chairs, and a lamp. Mario Gagliardi 1992.
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New Designs
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Printed textures
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Candy Morandi
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Chromaglass
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Omnidirectional microphone
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Speaker
A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions. (C) Mario Gagliardi 2018
Streampal
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Essential Water
In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...
Generative Botany
An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...
Blacker Box
Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017
Podchain
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Time
How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...
Low cost urban transport
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AI assistant
With the advance of digitalisation, items which once had a central position in households have disap...
Hybrid urban scooter
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Omnidirectional Speaker
Sculptural ominidirectional speakers, projecting sound recorded from an omnidirectional microphone i...
An organic structure for bikes
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Stories of You
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Cooking with myth
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Emotional drones
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Aura: Clouds of Knowledge
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Art Driver
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Unfolding sound spaces
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Shape-shifting robotic structures
Simulations for a research on shape-shifting robotic structures. Shape memory alloy sticks are linke...
Emotibots
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Semantic Space Invaders
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The pattern of You
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Mugs
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Functional Pasta
Pasta based on the geometry of a Möbius strip, a geometric surface with the distinction of having o...
Algorithm
things, people,think as algorithms...........
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
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Structured Reflection
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Intelligent Personal Assistants
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Mapping movement to music
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The algorithm of fashion
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Font design for a video game
Create Your World
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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 ...