Jon McCormack's new book celebrates the whorls, hexagons, and half-moons that appear in the world all around us.

Jon McCormack’s camera is drawn to the place where life and its constraints – gravity, fluid dynamics, climate, light and ...

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A database, collecting and classifying tile-like patterns in biology, aims to be a resource and research catalyst. The human eye is drawn to the rhythmic beauty of tiled patterns, which occur ...

Mother Nature is the ultimate designer. After all, since life first emerged on Earth, she’s had 3.8 billion years of evolutionary R&D to get it right. Biomimicry is the art and science of learning ...