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Nature of Form is a Book for Design Exploration

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Nature of Form for Designers
The World's First Book on collection of organic elements from Nature into Forms, Textures, and Colors to inspire your design by Nature.
Do you ever find yourself brimming with adept solutions? Like, wonder where you could use that material?  How they could've used a different font or color or stroke? How could the perspective be so out of proportion?
But also found yourself in a designer's block when you really needed to get work done?  (We did, too.)
Luckily, the design process helps a great deal, but let's address the Lego under our feet, the formidable task of generating aesthetics. Toss in a few curves? chamfers and fillets? Maybe angular trims? Get a cup of Nature? Take a stroll amongst the greens, wait for an inspiration to strike at the speed of light? (We tried all of them, the Lego really hurts)
Now, Who are We?
A group of multidisciplinary designers who share the same old hitch of generating "unconventional" aesthetics. One of us is always finding inspiration surfing the net, one is always in isolation with nature, and one is binge reading books. Even after all that, we were not able to produce unconventional outcome as our sources of inspiration were quite gray, repetitive and based on already existing material.
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Why this Product?
Although inspiration knows no concept of time, place or context, we can certainly increase our exposure, to stimulate our artistic side. While you can always take a stroll, or spend hours on the internet it would conclude a more unproductive bustle than a consequential one. Hence, the book, "Nature of Form"  which constitutes abstractions of natural elements into Forms, Textures and Colors.
Finding Inspiration is like skimming stones. You start off at a place, skim across multiple checkpoints till you anchor down to a solid place. An example of the flow of inspiration could be, Furniture for an island resort---flora & fauna---tribal diversity---ancient crafts---building boats---shapes of the boats---curves of the boat. Purely comprised of authentic sources from Nature, the book 'Nature of Form' is an extremely relevant checkpoint for you.
Moreover, we are aware of the use of attributes for searching inspirations. Like "Sporty" or "Energetic" or "Delicate", etc. That is why we tagged each abstract form with at least 3 attributes!
It simply makes your process of inspiration hunt easier.
What is the Product exactly and how do I use it?
The book 'Nature of Form' is the brainchild of three designers Bhagvanji Sonagra, Bhavin Dabhi, and Sushmita Chava, soon to be launched on Kickstarter. It is a collection of Forms, Colors, and Textures extracted from various elements in nature. It covers 150 elements divided into categories like Fruits, Vegetables, Insects, etc. From these elements, 1454 entities have been derived (432 Forms,  231 Patterns, 791 Colors). The extraction of forms, patterns, and colors was a tedious one but the result was a beautiful book, that has the competence to become any designer's most valuable asset.
Let's consider a Natural element, say 'Starfish'. The respective page will contain 3 form extractions of Starfish, top 4 dominant colors found in the Starfish species, and 1-3 textures from the species. As such we have around 10 categories like Flowers, Vegetables, Birds, etc. Each of the categories has around 9-20 elements.

The Book is subjective to the context of its use. To say, if you're

A textile designer, you may find the naturally coupled color theme and the symmetrical forms of the Starfish to tessellate and create a spread.
A product designer, you may use the forms and textures of the Starfish in creating a grip texture on your products.
A graphic designer, you may find the color schemes and the textures useful in producing good illustrations and compositions.
an automotive designer, you may use the attributes to find the power curves for your next automobile sketch.
A UI UX designer, you can use the color themes to contextually generate a more realistic web experience.
An Engineer/a Modeler, you can feed your creative end by converting the 3D textures into meshwork and derive stress and strength parameters.

The aforementioned users are from our limited source of knowledge. The uniqueness of this product lies in the fact that it is one, but many at the same time. The reader can manifest his/ her/ their own meaning into it.
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biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
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How we made!
Since its genesis, we have devoted around 3780 hours into making it what you can see today as a finished(pilot) product.

In the full length of 325 days, there were around  2.5 lac strokes drawn.

Around 2,200 selective forms were digitized out of the many that were manually drawn. 

The conclusion/upshot of all that rigorous exercise is being able to achieve 432 forms, 231 Patterns and 791 colors.

We further comprehended the all the forms between 9 attributes, by linking a minimum of  3 and a maximum of 5 attributes to each form

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biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
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biomimicry book brand designbook ILLUSTRATION InDesign Kickstarter Nature product design sketching
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Nature of Form is a Book for Design Exploration
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