121119the beginning of a beginning of the beginning of a trend

THE BEGINNING OF A BEGINNING OF THE BEGINNING OF A

TREND / PETER TROXLER  

Marika Nakada

“If you want to make the chair more comfortable, it’s an open design. Go ahead, make it comfortable, add your nice ideas. Hack it”.

He wanted a field on the Internet in industrial design like graphic design and game design already have, to boom creativity .

PLEASE COPY. BUT IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A BUSINESS OUT OF IT, THEN CALL ME AND WE’LL DISCUSS ROYALTIES. IT IS MY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, AFTER ALL; THAT’S THE BOTTOM LINE.

Open Design is based on two preconditions

1  An Open Design is CAD information published online under a Creative Commons License to be downloaded, produced, copied and modified.

2  An Open Design is produced directly from file by CNC machines and without special tooling.

There are only two limitations: These modifications and derivatives must be shared under the same license, and the license prohibits commercial uses.

Share the source code, Allow anybody to download, Copy and modify it without requiring any special skills or tools As long as you follow Creative Commons license

He is introducing Open Design gradually, helping companies and influencing how people understand what quality is, how to make the connection between the producer, Open Design and consumers, to search the next stage.

He wants to put the designer firmly back in the center of the design process. It’s really about having control of creative output. “I have to find a way to ensure that my creativity will not stop at the producer’s front door.”

Yet these early adopters are more into making things for the sake of making, regardless of what they create, whether it’s some mechanical toy or decoration for their laptop.

Material → Information Industrial design → Open design Products become Information becomes products