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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.
Author Archives: remko
Recycling
Waste is one of the first modern products. Did it exist a few millennia ago? Raw materials do not get depleted; they just change their composition. One has to mine them elsewhere, often in a more accessible site, such as … Continue reading
Printing
Printing represents a revolutionary way of reproducing symbols, but it takes on added impact when it comes to reproducing objects. 2D and 3D printing are no longer unusual; even scents and microscopic organic tissue can be printed now. The required … Continue reading
Open everything
Open source describes practices that promote access to the end product’s source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy; others consider it a pragmatic methodology. Fact is, open is spreading. Open source originated from software coding, but many other realms … Continue reading
Network society
In the network society, information will travel at light speed. In the network society, no one will be offline anymore. In the network society, the boundaries between public and private will blur so much that it will become unclear whether … Continue reading
Mass customization
Open design, hacking, sharing, co-creation is becoming truly fashionable and therefore valuable to corporations and advertising agencies. A characteristic example is the mass customization of sportswear. Frontrunner NIKE launched its NIKEiD service campaign back in 1999. It was a blank … Continue reading
Manifestos
Openness is still very much a choice, not a default. If it were a default, there would be no need for directions, ideological or not. Ideological efforts need rules, codes of conduct, manuals, bills, declarations, manifestos, often very precise and … Continue reading
Knowledge
Knowledge production is no longer the exclusive domain of science. Moving large chunks of information around at the push of a button has become democratized, at least in the strongly networked part of the globe. The information we access feels … Continue reading
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
Hacking design
Echoing Joseph Beuys, IKEA once campaigned that ‘everybody is a designer’, celebrating their consumers armoured with an Allen key. Today, besides software, people hack politics, the military, cuisine, DNA, BarbieTM and also design. Hacking design not only results in many … Continue reading
Hacking
Hacking is well-known, dating back to the early days computing. Hacking is about exploring and understanding systems and products, and modifying and personalizing them. As a strategy, hacking is a world- wide phenomenon. Many things can be hacked, from politics … Continue reading