DNA: A design icon
Denna Jones, curator of the TwoTen Gallery and Contemporary Initiatives at the Wellcome Trust, looks at how DNA's double helix became a design icon.
Why has the double helix become so popular? Simplicity, symmetry and serendipity are key.
The simplicity of the design - a spiral form resembling nothing more complex than a twisted ladder - means the metaphors used to describe DNA are easily understood and even more easily depicted. [BBC]
Beautiful article.
Heres some more DNA trivia, the title of the sci-fi "Gattaca" is composed entirely of the starting letters of nucleotide bases of the DNA - Gaunine, Adenine, Thymine and Cytosine.
Denna Jones, curator of the TwoTen Gallery and Contemporary Initiatives at the Wellcome Trust, looks at how DNA's double helix became a design icon.
Why has the double helix become so popular? Simplicity, symmetry and serendipity are key.
The simplicity of the design - a spiral form resembling nothing more complex than a twisted ladder - means the metaphors used to describe DNA are easily understood and even more easily depicted. [BBC]
Beautiful article.
Heres some more DNA trivia, the title of the sci-fi "Gattaca" is composed entirely of the starting letters of nucleotide bases of the DNA - Gaunine, Adenine, Thymine and Cytosine.
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