Design Technology  Websites for all Years

Websites for Biomimetic Design Inspiration

Below are some websites that offer a great source of inspiration and links to other research areas which mat be of great help to you in your investigate and design sections of your project. Some of these websites are dedicated to Biomimetic Design, Product Design and some to general design related subjects.
 
Year 10 Biomimic It Websites

http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/what-is-biomimicry.html        What is it?
http://www.ergonomics4schools.com/index.htm                                     Ergonomics and the study of Human factors in Design
http://science.howstuffworks.com/evolution/biomimicry.htm                       Biomimicry explained
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/about-us/biomimicry-a-tool-for-innovation.html A design tool?
http://www.biothinking.com/pd.htm                                                              Design Product examples and great info
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/case-studies/case-studies/                      Case Studies of nature and design
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/resources/                                               Biomimicry Institute resources
http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/resources/other-links.html                      other links from the Biomimicry institute
http://www.cbid.gatech.edu/                                                                             BID Biologically Inspired Design
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/04/biomimetics/tom-mueller-text       National geographic Biomimetics
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23933/                                  More Biomimicry examples
http://www.arkive.org/                                                                                  Excellent photos of Nature
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html                                                            Great Images of Nature
http://www.biologybrowser.org/                                                                    Great Images of Nature V2
http://www.treehugger.com/design_architecture/                                           Environmental design
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6296/hans-sandgren-jakobsen-butler-and-rocking-stools.html  Bio design example
http://www.biomimicry.info/examples                                                                   Detailed Biomimicry Applications
http://gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/reducing-noise-micro-honeycomb                  Biomimicry Honeycomb applications
http://greenidealab.com/category/green-ideas/biomimicry
http://www.technologystudent.com/index.htm   Good Starting Point for everything DT and information on all topics and stages of your project
http://design-technology.info/home.htm  Another good Starting Point for everything DT and research information on all topics, stages of the project

Design Images and Graphics

http://www.webshots.com/ Images
www.creativecommons.com  Images

Year 9 Memphis Style Websites

http://www.designmuseum.org/     Design Museum in London with the Memphis Resource pack
http://www.designboom.com/eng/       Website for all things Design search inhere for Memphis
http://www.memphis-milano.it/  Italian Website for Memphis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group
http://www.design-technology.org/memphis1.htm

Design Images and Graphics

http://www.webshots.com/ Images
www.creativecommons.com  Images

Year 8 Move It Websites

http://www.finewoodentoys.com/rolling_toys.html
http://www.englishtoys.com/shopping/productdetails/y/74/383
http://www.bluecowtoys.com/shop/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search/Moving_Toys

Year 7 Seat It Websites

 http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=Footstools&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18
Footstools images from Google
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/5797/missoni-home-at-milan-design-week-09.html examples
Example images of footstools
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&redirs=0&search=Footstool&fulltext=Search&ns0=1