Do It Yourself

We find ourselves in the brief pocket of the history of mankind in which DIY is a choice, compared to thousands of years of a DIY-by-default past and thousands more of a DIY-by-default future, not to mention the vast majority of people on the globe at this very moment for which the term is redundant. Like modern mass fabrication technology has produced the term DIY, modern peer fabrication technology might make it disappear again. How about knitting your own car tonight, or modding your furniture in the microwave?

FIRST PORTABLE B&D DRILL, 1916   ➝  ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN DESIGN / PAUL ATKINSON


COURTESY OF BLACK & DECKER

DRILL FOR THE CONSUMER MARKET, 2010   ➝  CO-WORKING / MICHELLE THORNE


PHOTO: MIKE NEILSON

THE ARTS & CRAFTS MOVEMENT


COURTESY OF THE DAILY BUNGALOW @ FLICKR

IKEA PARODY


AUTHOR UNKNOWN

BUILDERS MARKET   ➝  DESIGN LITERACY: ORGANIZING SELF-ORGANIZATION / DICK RIJKEN


PHOTO: THOMAS VAN DE WEERT

DIY BECOMES DIY CULTURE: THE MAKER’S BILL OF RIGHTS


ILLUSTRATION: JAMES PROVOST ➝ WWW.JAMESPROVOST.COM

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