The success of nuevo retro auto designs has inspired other commercial artists to go back to the future.
Variations of that seminal Kamali design have inspired generations of puffy down coats.
For some owners, Toyota's longstanding reputation for safety and good design had inspired loyal devotion and a certain environmental satisfaction that they said would be hard to abandon.
This approach to design, called immanent design, has inspired a platform for the user-driven development and use of electronic documents and forms in cooperative and organizational domains.
It's hard to imagine what the look on Orville and Wilbur's faces would be if only they could see what their design has inspired.
We describe the design of natural photosynthesis and how its design principles have inspired artificial photosynthesis.
For example, the collection of image-rich and evocative data from an individual using cultural probes may inspire the creative imagination to produce new technologies, but this approach allegedly ignores the fact that the individual could never afford to buy the technology whose design they have inspired.
In eastern Canada the Labrador whaler, a lapstrake, double-ended rowing and sailing boat used in the Labrador fisheries, became popular, and its design appears to have inspired the design of the Tancook whaler, a schooner-rigged centreboard fishing boat notable for its excellent handling qualities.
It's also instructive to recall photographs of Gee's Bend from the 1930's, when pine log cabins, chinked with clay, were lined with newspapers to block out the wind -- the newspapers making ad-hoc collages of geometric designs, which may have inspired quiltmakers.
Metalloenzymes, such as this, which house stable catalytic complexes within intricately designed pockets accessible by solvent channels, have inspired design of resin-bound complexes.
