A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural
materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental
design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven
individual creativity. Data From Nature begins with the chance
encounter between an ammonite and a digital scanner and goes on to
relate the author's growing immersion in the micro-scale beauty of
minerals and--thanks to new digital means of production--their
applications in wide areas of design. These include an
award-winning range of silk scarves for Liberty of London (also
sold in Saks Fifth Avenue); "frocks from rocks"; a striking
architectural facade in London, and the transformation of his own
house and garden using the latest digital techniques. Along the way
we learn about how minerals form in the Earth; ways they have been
admired and imagined from ancient civilizations to the dawn of
Modernity; and discover how the inlaid surfaces of Renaissance
cabinets of curiosity could inspire creative coloring and design
apps intended to equip children and adults alike to participate
creatively in the Digital Revolution. And as if all this weren't
enough, the book ends as improbably as it started with a short
biography of a "lost" (for which read "fictional")
seventeenth-century artist, Carlo Alcite, whose "works" reveal
powers of invention and draftsmanship worthy of a baroque master.
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