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Author Archives: remko
Template culture
TEMPLATE CULTURE: FORM FOLLOWS FORMAT, MANIPULATED WEBSITE SCREENSHOTS BY HENDRIKJAN GRIEVINK SOCIAL MESSAGING PLATFORM TEMPLATE ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORM WEBSITE TEMPLATE COLLABORATIVE ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA TEMPLATE SOCIAL NETWORK WEBSITE TEMPLATE COLLABORATIVE ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA TEMPLATE SEARCH ENGINE TEMPLATE SWEDISH FURNITURE STORE WEBSITE TEMPLATE ONLINE … Continue reading
Standards
Standards enable translingual communication. They enable Lego to be a profitable enterprise. They have been nice for kids, but also for designers and hackers. Standardization wars consume a lot of energy for the sake of open market competition, leaving consumers … Continue reading
Social design
Social design covers a range between products and services, creating to change society and build a better world. SocialDesignSite.com bears the slogan ‘We cannot not change the world’. Doesn’t that say enough? Design is a collective and collaborative responsibility, which … Continue reading
Share
What would the share-by-default option mean for a global society where Wikileaks is able to stir things up for weeks? What if everyone could follow every move you and I make? Big Brother would become blind instantly, and a lot … Continue reading
Scarcity of resources
Fear of resource depletion is or will become the driving force behind a repair economy — to the extent that it does not already exist in most people’s lives. The use of raw materials just reshuffles them around the globe. … Continue reading
Designers
ROUGH AND READY, TORD BOONTJE (1998) — “IT WAS ESSENTIALLY A PREDECESSOR OF OPEN DESIGN” ➝ NO MORE BESTSELLERS / JOOST SMIERS PHOTO: ANNABEL ELSTON ➝ TORDBOONTJE.COM ARM CHAIR (2008) AND BONE CHAIR (2006) BY JORIS LAARMAN – “OPEN SOURCE … Continue reading
Revolution
10,000 BC, AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION PHOTO: JEFF CAYLOR ➝ WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/JEFFCAYLOR 1815-1914, INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ➝ ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN DESIGN / PAUL ATKINSON COTTONPOLIS, ENGRAVING BY EDWARD GOODALL (1795-1870) 1980, SERVICE REVOLUTION PHOTO: ANGELA ANDERSON-COBB ➝ WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/ANGELARIEL65 1990, DIGITAL REVOLUTION ➝ SHAREABLE / … Continue reading
Reproduction
Reproduction means accessibility for the many; reproduction of production even more so. In contrast to the increasingly specialized machinery of industrial production at large, nowadays peer and open workshops equip themselves with ‘self-replicating’ 3D printers like RepRap and MakerBot. Do … Continue reading
Repairing
The global repair network is still changing. It used to be very local: you used to bring your broken radio around the block. Now you just throw it away; at best, it is disassembled and reassembled into something else in … Continue reading
Remix
Remixing is something that comes from deep within us. A child learns by remixing his or her parents’ behavior. Nothing novel is so new it does not relate to anything remotely similar. Originality can be regarded a strange obstacle to … Continue reading