Design & Nature Reimagined
I connect people to nature through art, information design, and storytelling. I write a weekly newsletter about nature, design, and hope.
Design & Nature Reimagined: Winter Beauty
ISSUE #56 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY Winter is always a bit hard for me because it gets dark so early, so today I want to focus solely on the beauty of nature in winter and the way different artists find to highlight it. If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. Keith Ladzinski is a National Geographic Photographer whose close up of ice crystals shows how much beauty is in things that we can't even see with our naked eye. Olga Prinku does embroidery with dried...
Design & Nature Reimagined: What we see
ISSUE #55 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY This last week was filled with a lot of love from friends and family, which was wonderful. On Friday I woke up feeling very thankful for everyone in my life, which I guess is timely since it's almost Thanksgiving. Today I have some small stories about what we see, or don't see, in some cases. If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. design Every year millions of birds die from flying into windows, because they simply can't...
Design & Nature Reimagined: Finding connection instead of despair
ISSUE #54 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY This week's newsletter is different because this week has been different. I've been traveling pretty heavily the past few weeks, first to San Francisco for a tech conference called GitHub Universe and then to Berlin for a creative technology conference called Beyond Tellerand, where I got to see some of the cutest robots ever. I find conferences and community a huge source of support and connection, so it felt especially good to be here during...
Design & Nature Reimagined: Evolution in Industrial Design
ISSUE #53 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY I was listening to a podcast with Denny Royal on biomimicry and heard about an industrial design method called the "Soft Kill Option". It's actually a method that's been used for decades, but not something that I'd ever heard about, so I decided to do a bit of a dive and learn more. If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. design, nature, reimagine In industrial design an option called the soft kill option method exists to...
Design & Nature Reimagined: Issue 52
ISSUE #52 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY This week I wanted to highlight nature and design writing from some publications I like and interesting tidbits that I found in my research this week! If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. design Grist, one of my favorite tech and climate newsletters reports that Barcelona has figured out how to harness and distribute the energy generated when a subway train comes to a stop, sending that energy out to EV chargers...
Design & Nature Reimagined: How color works
ISSUE #51 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY Sometimes when I'm finding things to write about, I stumble on something that I didn't know existed. Recently it was structural color. Structural color is created by the reflection and scattering of light. This is different than color created by pigments or dyes, where color is created by the pigment or dye absorbing all of the light except for a specific wavelength of light. The one color that's not absorbed is then the color that you see....
Design & Nature Reimagined: The Science of Autumn
ISSUE #50 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY In just a few more days fall will officially be here. I love fall, especially the transition into it, where we go from long, hot days to cozy, cool days with a golden light. In the fall the leaves here sometimes look like they're actually glowing. It's really magical! So, in anticipation of the Fall Equinox on Sunday the 22nd, I'm going to be talking about the science and wonder of autumn. If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe...
Design & Nature Reimagined: The power of stories
ISSUE #49 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY The journal Nature had an article this week that highlighted that changing people's minds about climate change works best with personal stories. When people hear stories about how climate or nature has impacted them, people listen and take it to heart. Telling stories was the basis for this newsletter. I wanted to find ways to connect people with nature and bring hope through small stories about our natural world. This is what our reality is...
Design & Nature Reimagined: A cheese on the verge of extinction
ISSUE #48 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY This week I spent some time camping in a van, my first time ever! We went to Forks (cue Twilight jokes), and spent some time in the Hoh Rainforest and La Push. I'll be posting some of the photos on my Instagram if you'd like to see what the Pacific Northwest has to offer nature-wise. (Spoiler alert: it's gorgeous) If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. design For years now I've followed the transformation of Paris from a...
Design & Nature Reimagined: Carbon Conscious Airports and Weak Jalapeños
ISSUE #47 DESIGN & NATURE REIMAGINED MARISA MORBY This week I finally got back out in to the garden and went on my morning walks, getting as much from this summer as I possibly can. I went paddleboarding on Friday and saw a White-tailed Kite with its two babies, a Great Blue Heron, and two Turkey Vultures! Hope you had a lovely week, too. If this email was forwarded to you, you can subscribe here. design Very on topic for Portland this week is the redesign of our airport. People in Portland...
I connect people to nature through art, information design, and storytelling. I write a weekly newsletter about nature, design, and hope.