Dos Helix

Deoxyribonucleic acid really sounds like the last thing that could influence design until you knock it down to the initials DNA. It's the root of life and the code responsible for the past and the future of any living entity. The double helix strand has now transcended the field of science and, over the last generation, moved comfortably into the field of pop culture.

Hollywood has turned DNA into the glow-in-the-dark plot twist of "CSI [Insert City Here]." The design community has latched onto the twisting double helix structure because the public now sees this shape as a spark of life or the signature of an individual. Representing the genus or the seed of life, health and longevity, a family tree, a code, a mystery or an unbroken sequence, these strands have a certain symbolic power that can be agreed upon by science and religion alike.

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