Our community can find patterns wherever they go. @ ramiro_valdez found these lush green spikes and layers in Spain, whilst @litespeed18 found these lichen at Everest...
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The glass wing butterfly uses the best form of camouflage to hide from predators – transparent wings. Micro-patterns of curved bumps that allow light to pass straight...
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Nature is resilient in the face of an ever modernising world. Carl Richard Söderström uses ceramics to imagine plants and organisms taking over an abandoned landscapes....
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As Anna traversed the Californian desert, she captured the meeting of flowing forms and cracked plates – both visualisations of the way the earth moves and warps beneath...
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Our events are living and breathing extensions of our deeper philosophies that we love sharing with our online community of fellow pattern explorers. It’s always such an...
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During this time of great change and uncertainty many of us have felt even more soothed, uplifted and grounded by the Natural world. Nature has taken on a deeper...
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Looking up to the heavens tomorrow, 27 July 2018, you might witness a Blood Moon, which is believed to be the longest total lunar eclipse of the century. This occurs...
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The Al Naslaa Rock Formation features petroglyphs depicting Ibex and Horses that are over 4000 years old. Even more remarkable, is the shape that the ancient engravings...
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Some structures and patterns re-occur throughout the natural and manmade world. What can we learn from them? How do they define the spaces we inhabit and the way we...
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The foundation of what we do at PATERNITY begins with noticing connections between the unexpected. This formed the basis of our award winning archive and design studio,...
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Increasingly, people in the creative arts are finding ways to interpret deep science and unseen phenomena. Similarly, scientists are surprised to find serendipity and...
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When we think of modernism and minimalism we envision clean, often sterile designs. Artist Sean Scully's signature simple blocks do conform to the pared back aesthetic...
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As humans, we are naturally pattern-seeking creatures – we are genetically conditioned to recognise and find meaning in pattern. The more we look, the more we see the...
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At the end of the year, we consider the cyclical nature of life and find inspiration in everything that surrounds us. After the natural death and quietness of winter, we...
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Discover how our increasing understanding of nature’s systems and interconnectivity is shaping the direction of PATTERNITY. Our co-founders Anna and Grace discuss the...
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Our co-founders Anna and Grace returned to the Quadrangle Trust for a weekend of nature exploration with our friends The Bio-Leadership Project. Together they've been...
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Lengths of sedge, a grass-like plant, are dyed and dried and then woven into mats in Vietnam, a process that is over 200 years old. Sedge plants have been used as a...
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Nature is changing quickly around us. For 2017 World Environment Day partnered with the i Naturalist global network to tally and keep track of our precious wildlife, by...
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Analysis from over 3000 years of marine biology reveals that parrotfish play a vital role in reef eco-systems by removing the algae that damage the reefs. Using fossil...
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