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
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
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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