OPEN DESIGN NOW
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Open Design Now is a collaborative effort of Creative Commons Netherlands, Premsela, the Netherlands Institute for Design and Fashion and Waag Society.
hello world
The Hello World programme has traditionally been used to test new computer languages, starting with C. The whistles shown here are the Hello World of DIY 3D printing, first designed by Eberhard Rensch. The whistles have taken over Hello World. They are a fine representation of communication expressed as an object. If hello and whistle symbolize communication, what symbol will be produced by the genesis of the DIY bio-printer? Vocal cord tissue?
hello world contents in Open Design Now:
(UN)LIMITED DESIGN CONTEST / BAS VAN ABEL
(Un)Limited Design contest Experimenting with Open Design Bas van Abel Open design covers an extensive area and its contours are not yet clearly defined, making it difficult for designers to come to grips with the developments. One of the most tangible open … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics: 2D, architecture, Bas van Abel, designers, downloadable design, events, hello world, Newly opened, remix
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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
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Tagged co-creation, community, creative commons, hello world, Newly opened, reproduction, Zach Smith
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JORIS LAARMAN’S EXPERIMENTS WITH OPEN SOURCE DESIGN / GABRIELLE KENNEDY
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
MADE IN MY BACKYARD / BRE PETTIS
Envisioning the potential of open source tools to facilitate making, Bre Pettis retraces the thorny and convoluted path from wanting to produce self-replicating robots, through a series of prototypes, to being at the core of a little universe of 2,500 … Continue reading
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Tagged aesthetics: 2D, aesthetics: 3D, Bre Pettis, downloadable design, events, hello world, printing, reproduction, revolution, share
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Hello world
The Hello World programme has traditionally been used to test new computer languages, starting with C. The whistles shown here are the Hello World of DIY 3D printing, first designed by Eberhard Rensch. The whistles have taken over Hello World. … Continue reading