penccil: The flower of a word

The flower of a word

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Inspirations.

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 ...

Manufactured Landscapes

We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...

Color constructions

The work of Krijn de Koning interrupts the environment by adding sculptural, architectural and colou...

Telepathic Light

Light installations for Cosa Mentale: Imaginaries of Telepathy of the 20th-Century Art in Centre Pom...

Function Follows Form

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

Animated Self-Portrait

A fun .gif avatar experiment

CHROMAesthesiae

CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...

Visual

a collection on the making of images.

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Chromointerference

"Color is not simply the color of things or the color of form, but an evolving situation, a reality ...

Low Tech can be smart and fun

A curated collection and workshop on handmade and sustainable objects, made in northern Thailand and...

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.

The Fans

The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one ...

A Feast Of Colours

Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...

Rana Begum: Work on Paper

Rana Begum studied at University of Hertfordshire, Chelsea College of Art and Design and at Slade Sc...

Mathieu Missiaen

Photographer Mathieu Missiaen is interested in the ways in which people will identify the reality of...

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,...

Type

Fonts by Mario Gagliardi Design, 2009-2010

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Master of Color

"I can’t work rationally; I’m too much a colour man (Farbenmensch) for that." said Ernst Ludwig...

CMD ALT M: Emilio Gomariz

New work by Spanish digital artist Emilio Gomariz. http://emiliogomariz.net

Emil Nolde

Emil Nolde, one of the most prominent German Expressionists, found his style influenced by Scandinav...

Phenomena

Taisuke Koyama studied Biology and is a self-taught photographer. He has published six books includi...

Illusions

an eye-popping collection of animated follies and optical illusions.

Geometric Pentimento

A pentimento is a trace of a previous work in a painting, showing where an artist corrected parts of...

Superheroes

Illustrations by Robin Davey. Robin Davey is a freelance illustrator, animator, designer, and direct...

Animatics

Our animated selections for summer 2013.

Color

Paintings by Wout Werensteijn.

Liquid graphics

Artwork by Ruslan Khasanov. Born 1987, Ruslan studied at the Ural State Academy of Architecture and ...

Further Abstract

Further Abstract is the title of a series of GIF animations by Alma Alloro. A triangle, a square an...

Istanbul

Fascinating animated images by Istanbul-based visual artist Erdal Inci. Erdal is currently available...

GIF ART

Nearly forgotten as a graphic format, discovered again as art form: GIF art by Yoshi Sodeoka. www.so...

Animated architecture

Animated pixel constructions by Malgosia Woznica a.k.a. V5mt.

Living Color

photos by Alberto Seveso and Martin Klimas. Added images by Pery Burge. www.burdu976.com www.martin-...

Pixel sculptures

Gif animations and development sketches by Mathew Lucas, young designer with an emphasis on typograp...

One GIF at a time

GIFs and JPGs by Zoe Burnett. A citizen of the Internet, making the world a better place, one GIF at...

A creature of habit

and other works of graphic design, static and animated, by Skip Dolphin Hursh. www.skiphursh.com

mathematics, the pattern, and the abstract

fascinating patterns, delivered as animated GIFs and programmed in Mathematica. Made by archery (ww...

Colors

The colors of Little India, Singapore. (C) Mario Gagliardi

Animated

GIFs! Collected and animated for your viewing pleasure.

Typographic construction generator

This typographic generator creates letters by connecting points within the constraints of letter out...

Missing pieces

Artwork by Mike Guppy

The penccils are alive

with the sound of animation

Subtle Moments

by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg

Color

and its dependencies

also:

Room

How light, color and space define emotions.

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...

Pierre Bonnard: The Memory of Colors

In autumn and winter 2019/20 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien presented »Pierre Bonnard - The Color...

Synthetic Paradise

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

Generative Alphabet

Numbers and Letterforms created by an algorithm. © Mario Gagliardi Design 2019.

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

Abstract Form

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

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...

Creative Changemakers & Future City

MG Font

An extravagant yet versatile and surprisingly readable font for headlines and quotes. (C) Mario Gagl...

Stories of the Future

A random generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated.

Oilspill, Carpet, Camouflage

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

VAW

In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week. We suggested a fundamental...

MAJI

MAJI Website design

Time

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

Aura: Clouds of Knowledge

Aura is an augmented reality concept for historical sites, galleries and museums. Once a user is aro...

Emotional Personal Assistant

Intelligent Personal Assistants such as Siri or Cortana are the link between AI-powered systems and ...

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...

One Hundred Thousand Games

One Hundred Thousand Games is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...

Thames & Hudson

As conventional book sales decrease, book publishers have to come up with innovative strategies for ...

life in color

the world in fun colors

Emoji Superhighway

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

Art Driver

A obstacle driving computer game with visual art. Use the arrow keys on your keyboard to push obsta...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...