Open Design - eBook - BIS Publishers

Content	Open Design Now looks at design in the new networked world. Design is becoming an open discipline, in which ideas are shared and products are being renewed in a worldwide collaborative process. Open Design empowers everybody to devise and distribute their own products. This book presents essays, case studies, a lexicon of images related to the main topics and practical guidelines for designers, design educators and policy makers to get started with Open Design. Overview of Open Design: practices, tools, licensing systems. As Open Design is a way of designing everyone can participate in, what are emerging practices that facilitate it? what are the tools, existing and needed, to make it happen (physical tools, digital tools, legal tools)? Underlying principles of Open Design: Networked tools for distributed physical production, the understanding of the commons as an elementary resource for cultural production, etc. Implications of Open Design: What effect does Open Design have on designing, artistic expression and creative processes? on the relationship of producer and consumer? on design business? on society at large?
Author	Bas is passionate about developing a wide variety of projects based on open design principles. As co- founder of Waag Society’s Fab Lab (a community fabrication laboratory) and the Instructables Restaurant (an open source restaurant), he is an active member of the international maker and digital fabrication community.
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Specs	ISBN: 978 90 6369 359 6 Author: Bas van Abel et al. Design: Hendrik-Jan Grievink Format: Ebook Pages: 320

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