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chloekg's review against another edition
4.0
The introductory essay on pages 10 - 17 is essential. It's a historical trajectory to the capacity and necessity of "biodesign," a more holistic approach to the life and death of design objects than the imitation of form implied by the biomimicry popularized in the collapsing half of the 20th century.
The rest is more picture book, but the so small font is sometimes the essence of an entry. Some chapters orient toward "solutions." Others favor provocation. Concepts and prototypes dominate functionality. Aesthetics and imagination dominate science. This is a design collection with a full-blooming diversity of form, a little perversity, a dash of humor, and the "breathless optimism" of dreaming a century for life.
The rest is more picture book, but the so small font is sometimes the essence of an entry. Some chapters orient toward "solutions." Others favor provocation. Concepts and prototypes dominate functionality. Aesthetics and imagination dominate science. This is a design collection with a full-blooming diversity of form, a little perversity, a dash of humor, and the "breathless optimism" of dreaming a century for life.
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