Biomimicry

Tiny Town: A Cabinet of Curiosities at the Rhode Island School of Design

Exploring a carefully curated and labeled collection of natural specimens at the Providence design school is like using an analog search engine that yields incredible real-life results.READ»

• Karin Fong's The In-Between Spaces blog

Using Nature as Divine Design Inspiration

Nature never fails to produce something new and interesting. Connecting it with your craft yields inspired solutions.READ»

• Joe Duffy's DPOV blog

Biomimicry, the Zoo, and San Diego Too

Building Businesses Using Nature as a MentorREAD»

How to Grow a Cleantech Cluster

The green revolution is not evenly dispersed.  The companies that are revolutionizing how we drive, produce electricity, and build often stick together in specific locales forming cleantech clusters.   As old industries ...READ»

Fabric That Works Just Like a Pine Cone

A textile developed in Britain has pores that open when it's wet, and sheaves that close up when it's dry.READ»

Nature's 10 Simple Rules for Business Survival

In the emerging fields of biomechanics and biomimicry, scientists are decoding rules that can help form businesses as hardy and long lasting as a forest. After all, nature is far harsher than the market: If you are not sustainable, ...READ»

• Green Business: Carbon Copy

Biomimicry: Color-Changing Cuttlefish Inspire Green TV Screens

Cuttlefish are camouflage experts that can change skin color in under a second to hide from predators, or prey on others. They're inspiring more than just awe from scientists. Now researchers at MIT are working on electronic ...READ»

Asking Nature for Business Solutions

Engineers and designers are always searching for innovative solutions to the problems they face.  Are there more efficient, less polluting ways to make things?  How can cars be stronger, lighter and more fuel efficient, all at the ...READ»

Biomimicry Innovation Poll Closing Soon

Our informal poll on biomimicry & innovation closes this Friday.  Last week I participated in a PDMA SecondLife panel discussion on green innovation.  The event was very well attended with so many people asking to attend that ...READ»

Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Designs

The inventor of Velcro ripped cockleburs from his dog's fur. Da Vinci and the Wright brothers studied birds in flight. And now a rising number of designers are looking to nature for inspiration. Companies as diverse as Boeing, Ford, General Electric, Herman Miller, HP, IBM, Kraft, Nike, and Patagonia are welcoming biologists to the design lab. Here's a sampling of Mother Nature at work.READ»

• 2008 Masters of Design
• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature
• The Vision of John Maeda
• The Port of Los Angeles is the Gateway to Ingenuity

Biomimicry: Gain Competitive Business Advantage By Tapping into Nature's Reservoir of Design Knowledge

Imagine a system that has been conducting research and design not for tens, hundreds or even thousands, but billions of years. What if you took these time-tested principles, and applied them to other systems? From a systems ...READ»