Furniture Design: Fifties to early seventies
Inspirations.
Gran Turismo
Lounge chair Gran Turismo, Design Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
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...
Marqueterie
A contemporary marqueterie effect for a combined side table/console with hidden drawers. © Mario Ga...
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 ...
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...
Creative Changemakers & Future City
Promotional sites for the initiative Creative Changemakers and the event Future City. (C) 2018 MGD M...
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
Stories of the Future
A generator for news headlines of the future. Every 9 seconds, a new story is generated: http://mar...
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...
VAW
In late 2018, we proposed a strategic repositioning of Vienna Art Week.
We suggested a fundamental...
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...
S tables
modul for table
One Hundred Thousand Games
One Hundred Thousand Games is an online game with unlimited levels. It takes the genre of first-per...
Jerszy Seymour Amateurtopia
Berlin born and –based designer Jerszy Seymour studied engineering at South Bank Polytechnic 1987 ...
Emotibots
Emotibots are shape-shifting social home robots interacting with humans. Robots will in the future i...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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...
Glowscape
Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...
Structured Reflection
These 3D-printed vases feature finely faceted surface structures which create intriguing light refle...
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.
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Citta design development
Images from the design development for the cabinet system "Citta"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Tessuto
Brass bowl "Tessuto"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa
Sole
Dining chair "Sole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Chicco and Onde
Pillows "Chicco" and "Onde"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Isole
Couch tables "Isole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Goccia
Side table "Goccia"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Dynamo
Rug "Dynamo" in New Zealand wool
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario & Casa
Nuvole
Shelf "Nuvole"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Quadrifoglio
Side tables "Quadrifoglio"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Paravento
Paravent "Paravento"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Luna
Lamp "Luna"
Design: Mario Gagliardi
Khalifa
Storage unit/couch table "Khalifa" in 70/30 brass.
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Fumetto
Highback chair "Fumetto"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario & Casa.
Cavaliere
Stool "Cavaliere"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Dadi
Brass object "Dadi".
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Villici
Wooden toy figurines "Villici"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Fabrics
Development of a silk, cotton and linen upholstery fabric line for Mario and Casa.
Ryoku
Lounge chair "Ryoku"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Shambala
Rug "Shambala"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Satyayuga
Rug "Satyayuga"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Cristallo
Rug "Cristallo"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Scienza
Rug "Scienza"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Stradale
Rug "Stradale"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Catenina
Side table "Catenina"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Guazzo
Rug "Guazzo" in New Zealand wool.
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Aurora
Lounge chair "Aurora"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Estelle
Dining chair "Estelle"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Tofukuji
Rug "Tofukuji" in New Zealand wool
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Cambia
Lounge chair "Cambia" with exchangeable seating pillows
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
UFO
Couch table "UFO"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Mezzaluna
Dining chairs "Mezzaluna Hi" and "Mezzaluna Lo"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Metamorfosi
Dining table series "Metamorfosi"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Amatera
Bench "Amatera"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Celebre
Rug "Celebre"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Prospettive
Rug "Prospettive"
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Trompe l´oeil
Rugs "Trompe l´oeil".
Design: Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Apero
Lounge chair "Apero" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
Aitutaki
Armchair "Aitutaki" designed by Mario Gagliardi for Mario and Casa.
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...
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