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The painted house

These experimental structures have been created by combining design processes of architecture and graphic design.
(C) Mario Gagliardi 2021.

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Inspirations.

The gilded castle

Besides castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, Peles is the most remarkable turn-of-the-century castle i...

The Heavy Palace

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest was built in the nineteen-eighties after a design by Anca ...

Back in the USSR

Great retro logos from the old USSR, and a Beatles song. https://soundcloud.com/thebeatlesrevisited...

Faces by 田中一光 Ikko Tanaka

Inspired by the Bauhaus, by Jazz and by American graphic design, Ikko Tanaka (1930-2002) was one of ...

Arte generativo

Ejemplos de arte generativo que sirvan de inspiración

Reactive Space

Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...

Calatrava : Sculptures

Sculptures by architect Santiago Calatrava.

penccil

Concept, branding, design and coding of penccil, the site for creative people, studios and gallerie...

Pattern generator

A generator for tile and fabric patterns. Drag and drop images and see kaleidoscopic patterns emerge...

4 second universe

Watch fractal spaces being created every 4 seconds: https://www.mariogagliardi.com/universe.html

Gravity Sketch

Create sketches with gravity: https://www.mariogagliardi.com/gravity.html

PIXelated Cube

experiment idea materialmatters architecture

CAMOUFLAGE ARCHITECTURE

My thesis gallery about camouflage and architecture

Abstract Form

Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....

The Venice Pavillon

The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...

Collaborative City Planning

The result of the Zero Carbon project: a collaborative scale model of the prototype site, close to t...

Generative Botany

An early app for generative graphics, realized in 2000 in the (now deprecated) Adobe Flash. To use t...

Cognition

This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...

Structures

Architectural studies, Mario Gagliardi 2002-2004.

Dreaming of Skyscrapers

Mario Gagliardi 2006.

I See Violence in Your Eyes (I-VIII)

Pigment, graphite, charcoal, & mixed media on paper.

Trajectories of the Lost, Fallen, Forgotten, and Most Unclean

Ink, graphite, pigment, & mixed media on paper.

Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage

Pattern generators for interesting surface patterns and backgrounds. Click "Start" to start, "Change...

Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019

For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...

Terror Architecture -18th Century Prisons

In the late 1770s, there was a particular interest in the development of not only scientific and rhe...

Kunio Makaewa

Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...

Digital Biology

Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...

Territorium: Ars - Techne-Krafts-Cosmovisión

Colección de imágenes que soportan investigación a nivel de postgrado: Maestría Estudios Territ...

Fashion, Food, Transport

FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...

Architecture

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 & Design

Artists Abroad: A Woman´s Journey to Discover the Artists. Writer and Illustrator.

Writing & Design

Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...

Writing & Design

SQT..or Not. Book. Writer and Illustrator, Ted Wells.

Carlo Scarpa

jardin des sculptures. C Scarpa

Time

How do you express time without numbers or watch hands? Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...

The loft bar

Concept project of loft bar.

Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch

"Exiled from Truth: Nine Allegories by Dmitry Borshch" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 July 10, 11 a...

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...

Emoji Superhighway

With AR technology, virtual information will soon be projected on car windshields. What would happen...

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 Joys of Ice Skating

That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be 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 ...

NuSA

Flags are symbols of identification. Designed at the time of the formation of a country, they transp...

The pattern of You

Each name results in a unique pattern. The pattern and colors created are unique to each name, and t...

serpentine 2017

exhibition, schauspiel köln, cologne. steelobjects, ceramic reliefs.

BS1

temporary accessible sculpture.

Maurice Binder

Maurice Binder was a film title designer best known for his work on 14 James Bond films including th...

Attraction - Repulsion

An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...

Neverending Graphics

Graphics and animations are generated on the fly, resulting in perpetual variations. Move your mouse...

Le Drugstore Brand Identity

Design&Practice designed the brand identity for the newly opened restaurant "Le Drugstore," with int...

Coffee maker

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

BKM/Barozzi/Veiga

The extension of the Villa Planta, which will accommodate the Bündner Kunstmuseum, is an exercise o...

Modernist Architecture by Frank Lloyd Wright

Geigy, Swiss and European Graphic Design

Selection of outstanding graphic design from Europe

ARCHITETTURA ANALOG(IC)A massimo gasperini

MASSIMO GASPERINI_(Pisa, 1971) architect and researcher in the Representation Sciences, former lectu...

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...

Library

A library in the center of Moscow, study project.

Living Ink

Living Ink is a creative tool for the users of penccil. With Living Ink, users can create graphics i...

Book : Monk

A book by Jonathan Monk.

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Field of Notion

Field of Notion delves into the dichotomies of light and shadows, life and death, creating a series ...

Have a good one to day!

Alpina

Chair "Alpina" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Pianeti

Rug set "Pianeti", designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa. Handcrafted in 100% New Zealand M...

Flow

Dining Table "Flow" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Gran Turismo

Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.

Surface N° 2

Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...

String Theory: Architecture of Connections

This speculative project starts with the idea that space is not defined by volume, but by connectio...

The Frenchness of Russian Art: Montaigne and Death

"The Frenchness of Russian Art: Montaigne and Death" 105 NY-110, Melville, NY 11747 September 13, 1...

Fairy Clouds

Always wanted to escape and fly through a fairy cloudscape? Now you can! This experiment uses WebG...

Digital Vases

A generator for digital vase forms. Move the cursor around the screen to choose colors, then click r...

Casa Sperimentale

One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...

SCARABOOK

SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...

My calendar

I start to make it in 2000, the year in which the future has passed, at the request of Adriano Mei G...

71 views of the magic mountain

In the days of the first lockdown I started making these drawings, remotely inspired by Hokusai´s "...

on paper books and e-books

these drawings were made thinking about what is happening to the books through various titles of cla...

Last and First Men

The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...

el cairel II

turistic housing complex buit in reinforced concret

No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil

A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...

Ebb and Flow

This student design project smartly uses paper to give shape to the intertidal coastline of Taiwan, ...

Pulp architecture

The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...

Dovecote-Granary

Tiago Do Vale took on the admirable task of restoring two maize granaries as examples for disappeari...

Culinary Tradition

Four examples of contemporary food packaging designs inspired by traditional Chinese patterns and gr...

TRIAL

Old-school postal packaging usually gets little attention from graphic designers. Not so in this fun...

Archip-elles

Swiss graphic designers We Play created this pop-art inspired, fun poster series for the Archipelles...

Kids House

For Inwayi Kids House in Ningbo City, China, designer Nono Xia of graphic design studio Ninemix cam...

Origami envelopes

Origami Envelopes have a special place in Japanese gift-giving culture. The four envelopes here rep...

Les Concerts du mercredi

The idea of Swiss based graphic design practice We Play Design for these posters for Les Concerts du...

Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming

Although this is for an exhibition of Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima at Shanghai Minsh...

Yokohama Museum of Art Calendar

Graphic designers Aizawa office from Yokohama designed this wall calendar. With its unassuming but a...

Core Agora

These shop pavillions in an area of a hotel complex in Greece, designed by Not a Number Architects, ...

Sonata

Sonata, a multi-housing project in Merida, Mexico, was designed by Mexican practice Arkham. Partly e...

K11 Musea

Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...

Lotus Zen House

The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...

Laurel Hills Residence

A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...

House 33

House No 33 by Uemori Masaaki and Uemori Kokutou: A fantastic example on how contemporary architectu...

Pulp Fiction

A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.

Architectural sculptures

Architectural sculptures by K. Kegelmann as part of "Future City" curated by Mario Gagliardi at the ...

Synthetic Paradise

Generative music combined with abstract graphics. Click the screen to generate new graphics: https:/...

Generative Alphabet