Design by nature : using universal forms and principles in design / Maggie Macnab.

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Foreword -- Introduction -- Memory: Remembering What We Know: -- Aesthetics: enjoy the ride -- Truth and beauty: -- Beauty is as beauty does -- Intuition and creativity -- Synchronicity -- Wabi-sabi and grunge -- Emptiness and simplicity: -- Emptiness as a philosophical and visual design application -- Simplicity -- Putting it into practice -- Efficiency: go with the flow: -- Economics of nature -- Value-driven design -- Design´s purpose -- Problem solving: different strokes with effective results -- Creative ideas used skillfully -- Creatives on the creative process -- Putting it into practice -- Nature´s ethics: everyone´s business: -- Natural guidelines for ethical design: -- 12 design principles from nature -- Abundance and limits: -- Information design: discerning and distilling beautifully -- Intention and invention -- Mutation: -- International design response to a manmade disaster -- Street galleries -- Ethics in education: rethinking how and what we teach: -- School of visual arts/New York City -- Carnegie Mellon University/Pittsburgh -- Upcycled design: applying nature´s principles to personal design: -- Common denominator between aesthetics, efficiency, and ethics -- Matter: Understand And Create: -- Patterns: nature´s dynamics -- Energy visualized: -- What is pattern? -- How natural patterns are relevant to design -- Capturing the energy of your design -- Transforming energy as a design -- Patterns: -- Patterns of movement -- Patterns of regeneration and connectivity -- Patterns that stack and pack -- Sounding board for visuals -- Putting it into practice -- Shapes: nature´s vocabulary: -- Shape-speak: -- Defining extraordinariness with numbers -- Shapes as truths -- Universe of freedoms -- Human translations of shape -- In form yourself by understanding shapes: --Circle -- Intersecting lines -- Triangle -- Square -- Spiral -- Putting it into practice -- Elements: nature´s sensuality: -- Color your world: -- Light creates color -- Color form