Creative Changemakers & Future City
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Inspirations.
Alessandro Mendini 1931-2019
For Alchimia, design is a cyle: everything that will have to happen has already happened, and the im...
VAW
In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week.
We suggested a fundamental...
MAJI
MAJI Website design
Typography
Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.
Digital Biology
Interior studies for public indoor spaces merging digital and biological environments. Wall modules ...
Podchain
Podchain is an integrated design concept for on-demand autonomous transport. To optimize kinetic ene...
Fashion, Food, Transport
FUTURE CITY premiered at Vienna Art Week 2018 on November 20, 2018, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in...
WRECK--Regeneration Experiment of Wasted Daily-use Ceramics from Chaozhou, China
WRECK, the destruction of decorum, the ruin of culture. BENTU went deep into daily-use ceramics indu...
Time
How do you express time without numbers or watch hands?
Clocks abstract time into a measurable, un...
Low cost urban transport
Combining contemporary technology with a focus on low cost and reliability, this neighborhood transp...
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...
Stories of You
REVOIR is an interactive mirror, activated by emotion detection to create stories through visual lan...
Cooking with myth
IOTAO is a series of IoT - enabled domestic cooking devices for the Chinese market which reinterpret...
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 ...
S tables
modul for table
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 ...
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...
Emotibots
Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...
Semantic Space Invaders
Semantic Space Invaders is a computer game in which the gameplay is happening entirely in your perce...
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 ...
Cellular Letters
An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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...
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...
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...
Glowscape
Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...
Intuitive Feedback for Human-Machine Interfaces
Tangible human-machine interfaces such as remote controls are based on a linear logic with designate...
Structured Reflection
These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...
Mapping movement to music
This concept for a portable digital sound control device predicted a wrap-around display and intuiti...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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Whiskey Bay Press Merc
Merch
Bookcover mockup
book cover design idea
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.
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...
Printed textures
3D printing has become a viable production method enabling the rapid production of small and medium-...
Candy Morandi
Giorgio Morandi's ceramic vessels have been the inspiration for this project. Morandi´s objects are...
SCARABOOK
SCARABOOK is the combination of Scarabottolo and the English word book (but perhaps we ought to say ...
Haribo Centennial
Haribo, the company behind the bear-shaped fruit-flavored jelly candy from Germany, is 100 years old...
Spring 2020 - Project 2 - MassArt
A school project in which we had to redesign a small triangle shape park near Harvard Square in Camb...
Objects of Desire
»Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today«
28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum
Surrealis...
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.
Chromaglass
Chromaglass is a cocktail glass displaying its ingredients through colors. An inner insulating conta...
Nature morte/Nature vivante
Until recently, artists, designers and architects were used to working with inert, non-living materi...
Upcycled
Furniture design from upcycled materials: Stools from old rubber tyres, oil barrels and washing mach...
chair_ONE
chair_ONE is the best known design by Konstantin Grcic, a German furniture designer whose work is eq...
Cazal
Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...
Reactive Space
Inspired by Plato´s allegory of the cave, this is an architectural study for spaces reacting to its...
Omnidirectional microphone
Design for an omnidirectional microphone, recording sound from all spatial directions. Recorded soun...
Speaker
A sculptural speaker rendered with GLSL signed distance functions.
(C) Mario Gagliardi 2018
Rudolf Belling
Rudolf Belling was sculptor, designer, architect and stage designer. In 1908, he founded a studio fo...
Streampal
Streampal is a lifestream robot for Youtubers, Instagrammers and others who want to record passages ...
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
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Jonathan Ive leaves Apple
On June 28, Apple´s chief designer Jonathan Ive (born 1967) announced that he would leave Apple lat...
Abstract Form
Click 4 times on the canvas and watch how an abstract form is generated: https://www.mariogagliardi....
Essential Water
In many regions of the planet, water is increasingly becoming rare. Our understanding of water, refl...
The Venice Pavillon
The Venice Pavillon interprets the history of Venice as a point of contact between West and East. Sh...
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...
The Persona Project
Social media are powerful because humans use the same parts of the brain to interact with machines a...
Blacker Box
Blacker Box is a design expression for an Intelligent Speaker. (C) Mario Gagliardi Design 2017
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.
The flower of a word
Type a word, hit enter, click "make GIF", then download your animated word flower at
https://marioga...
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