creative commons

Creative Commons addresses problems and possibilities of the classic copyright in the digital era. All phases and steps in a design process that are not the physical making nor software can be covered in an open fashion by Creative Commons licences. All parts that can be regarded content – from the first sketch on a napkin until the final CAD file – can be released under four conditions to be recombined in six different licences.

creative commons contents in Open Design Now:

THINGIVERSE / ZACH SMITH

Thingiverse How the Internet, Sharing and Digital Fabrication are Enabling a New Wave of Open Source Hardware Zach Smith Thingiverse.com was started on a lazy Saturday afternoon in late October 2008. I was at the local hackerspace, NYC Resistor, with … Continue reading

Posted in case | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

DESIGNSMASH / ENLAI HOOI

AN OPEN DESIGN BUSINESS MODEL. Enlai Hooi It is still somehow an unusual thought that open design might be considered a viable, possibly even beneficial, strategy for business. The product design industry has been slow to move on the issue … Continue reading

Posted in case | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

JORIS LAARMAN’S EXPERIMENTS WITH OPEN SOURCE DESIGN / GABRIELLE KENNEDY

composition_of_sales_price

The mediocracy of the middle classes dominates the current mass production design. In a world less controlled by branding and regulations, a new breed of designers can contribute to an altered, more honest economy. An interview with Dutch designer Joris Laarman, … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

NO MORE BESTSELLERS / JOOST SMIERS

The present copyright system is beneficial for a few best-selling artists while providing no benefits at all for most creative professionals. Joost Smiers explores ways to improve the market, including the financial situation of most artists and designers, and to … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , | 912 Comments

LIBRARIES OF THE PEER PRODUCTION ERA / PETER TROXLER

Libraries of the Peer Production Era

Mapping the landscape of commons-based peer production, Peter Troxler analyses the arena of open source hardware and looks into various initiatives being spawned by fabrication labs, trying to identify their business potential and asking how these initiatives contribute to giving … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

AUTHORS AND OWNERS / ANDREW KATZ

Andrew Katz traces the origins of the problems of copyright legislation and practice when confronted with the natural, human, social mode of creative endeavour. Building on developments in open source software, he outlines how designers could benefit from a similar … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 506 Comments

Creative Commons

publicdomain-copy

Creative Commons addresses problems and possibilities of the classic copyright in the digital era. All phases and steps in a design process that are not the physical making nor software can be covered in an open fashion by Creative Commons … Continue reading

Posted in visual index | Tagged | 665 Comments

Introduction / Marleen Stikker

The pioneers of our time are not taking the world at face value, as a given from outside; rather, they see the world as something you can pry open, something you can tinker with. Marleen Stikker In his novel The … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Preface / Bas van Abel, Lucas Evers & Roel Klaassen

Open design existed before the publication of this book, of course. At the end of the last century, it was defined as design whose makers allowed its free distribution and documentation and permitted modifications and derivations of it. More than … Continue reading

Posted in article | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off