That year rapper Pharrell Williams invested a "high six-figure" amount for a 30% equity stake in the company--enough to hire graphic designers to create slick brochures and a new website with color diagrams on Bionic's manufacturing process.
The show is a must-see for any architectural professional or student of architecture, but the studies, notes and axonometric diagrams that record his thoughts and design process may be a little hard going for a general public more accustomed to dramatic sequences of photographic images and drop-dead models of buildings in proper chronological order.
Now, Mr. Johnson is in the process of updating a chart he published in 2010 entitled "A Visual History of Daft Punk Helmets, " which diagrams the subtle evolution of helmets worn by the band.