Nature Inspired Creative Design is a new research network, part of the AHRB/EPSRC funded “Designing for the 21st Century” program. Cercia is creating a cluster of scientists, artists, designers, and industrialists that focusses on taking ideas, methods, paradigms and algorithms from nature and introducing them into the design process. Nature inspired approaches have the potential to create better designs, as well as better design processes and tools. More at www.nature-inspired.org