Maggie Macnab Maggie Macnab has been recognized as an innovative design communicator and logo designer for over three decades. She has written two books on design theory, Design by Nature (New Riders, 2011) and Decoding Design (F+W, 2008), and most recently hosted Designing Effective Logos, a logo-design training video series. Maggie is a design educator at various universities and colleges, and gives workshops on designing with nature in mind. She is committed to beautiful, functional design and creative problem solving based in nature’s richly practical process.
Galileo knew it. Every ancient culture that left traces of knowledge in their art knew it. Basic shapes compose the fundamental geometry of the universe. We can take credit for a lot of things, but human beings did not invent geometric shapes. We discovered them through the observation of nature. Understanding basic shapes and their functions have taught us to mark time and space in a variety... Read More
There are only a handful of fundamental patterns that create all of the natural diversity around us. Nature’s patterns perform three basic tasks that get the work of the universe done by moving, storing and connecting energy.
Nature communicates within an interconnected and intricate system of checks and balances to weave patterns and processes together for perfect and purposeful... Read More
No designer creates wow work 100% of the time. There’s no question that creating good design takes significant exertion, but generating the wow factor in your work can also be fairly effortless. Many designers follow their intuition during the creative process and incorporate universal symbols and metaphors simply because it “feels right.” Intuition — accessible to all people and most... Read More
