The Shark's Paintbrush: Biomimicry and How Nature Is Inspiring Innovation

The world's most elegant engineer is without a doubt Mother Nature. She's efficient, creative, and has time on her hands to put her innovations to the test, and Harman thinks we can learn a lot from watching her work...Harman points out that many of these developments would not only save money, but also prove an enormous boon to the survival of Mother Nature. His vision of a biomimetic 'new global economy' is timely, crucial, and thrillingly eye-opening.

A useful update on recent developments in biomimicry and an intriguing case for innovative green technology that goes beyond sustainability.

The Shark's Paintbrush reveals how nature is inspiring design to be more efficient, effective, resilient, and beautiful...Jay Harman's immersion in and curiosity about the natural world have made him one of the best biomimetic designers. The Shark's Paintbrush is a masterly field guide for all designers and entrepreneurs who aspire to help the world of the made work like, and live harmoniously with, the world of the born.

Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the soul of a student. He moves with grace from a world of waving sea kelp to the world of sustainable design, bringing nature's wisdom into the board rooms of global companies, to the design tables of the engineers and designers who make our world. This is more than a business book, more than a memoir, more than a new way to solve global challenges. It's a book about a new way to think.

The Shark's Paintbrush makes for fascinating and joyful reading-much needed in these dark times.