Biomimicry can occur in both form and process. The beak of the kingfisher bird inspired the redesigned Japanese bullet train. While the abalone shell and its alternating layers of hard and soft ...

Through most of the industrial age, we have been getting by on our own wits and inventions for new product designs. But now few savvy manufacturers are beginning look back at nature's laboratory to ...

Concrete is the most consumed material on our planet, second only to water; and consumption has dramatically increased over the last few decades with the proliferation of the human population. Today, ...

The annual competition from the Biomimicry Insititute is spreading its wings: The Biomimicry Global Design Challenge (BGDC) is expanding to include the Living Product Prize. Entrants vying for the ...

Jay Harman believes that cutting edge technology actually began at the beginning of time. Jay Harman believes that cutting edge technology actually began at the beginning of time. That, not ...

HOK and the Biomimicry Guild have forged a first-of-its-kind alliance linking the natural and built environment. This exclusive relationship between one of the world’s largest architectural design ...

As the name implies, biomimicry is the discipline of designing products by mimicking phenomena that already exist in biology and nature. The best-known example of this approach is Velcro, which was ...

Biomimicry, the practice of learning from and mimicking nature to solve human design challenges, became a recognized science in the late 20th century, but studying and imitating the natural world has ...

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The most recent update of the Da Vinci index, released in the third quarter of 2011, shows an eleven-fold increase in the incidence of biomimicry in the research pipeline since 2000, the baseline year ...