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Bio-Design

"Whenever we talk about biodesign we should simply bear in mind just how
amazingly superior a spider’s web is to any load-bearing structure man has made
– and then derive from this insight that we should look to the superiority of
nature for the solutions. If we want to tackle a new task in the studio, then
it’s best to go outside first and look at what millenia-old answers there may
already be to the problem." Luigi Colani

For over five decades now Colani has been the unabashed agent provocateur of the
design world. He thinks in terms of grand utopias, creating ingenious drafts for
designs that preempt much of what is not yet technically feasible. While the
design world has spent decades endeavoring like the Renaissance to quantify
design tasks in terms of rules and laws, Colani acts like the Mannerists who
succeeded the Renaissance and breaks all the rules to paint an unpredictable and
moving picture of how the future could be designed. It is precisely because of
these qualitites that at present Colani’s working ideas are being rediscovered
and reinterpreted world-wide – driven by a younger generation of designers such
as Ross Lovegrove and Karim Rashid, who likewise believe that anatomy,
technology and 3D shapes must form the basis if design is to be duly holistic
and biomorphic.




Ross Lovegrove , London :
"Colani’s place is secured as perhaps the most influential form visionary of the
twentieth century in the field of industrial design. He has created dreams that
push the limits of our perception of space and technological possibility to the
edge of the Earth’s stratosphere, and as the world of industrial design sought
safety and acceptance through restraint he just kept blowing minds with the
fusion of art and organic design. He remains ever relevant, connecting man to
machine in the most profoundly utopian of ways.

Seeing his work at the age of fifteen made all possible for me because I
realized that instinct is far more powerful than logic as the starting point for
all new possibilities in our evolving world. Now, thirty years later, the
incredible heart and soul of this man, who has created by hand and eye such an
immense body of work, continues to inspire me as a friend and fellow
techno-anthropomorphic believer lost in space but always supporting the
potential of man."

 





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