Why we chose this episode
Designers love the phrase learn from nature. This looks at what that borrowing actually costs and who gets credit.
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Who do you credit when you take an idea?
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Who it’s for: Anyone who has nodded along to a biomimicry slide.
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Short, on a commute.
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Find one designed object and guess what it was copied from.
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