This is something the industrial designer Ross Lovegrove has been exploring for a while, here's the obligatory TED link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ross

This is something the industrial designer Ross Lovegrove has been exploring for a while, here's the obligatory TED link: http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ross_lovegrove_shares_organic_designs.html http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ross_lovegrove_shares_org... He talks about early modernist design being dictated by the machining processes of the time, lathes and extrusion etc. producing the characteristic geometric work. Tangentially linked to the OP...