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Carl Turner design open-source house that floats on floodwater
London architect Carl Turner has developed a design for a prefabricated floating house and has made the plans available to download via an open-source architecture website. Described as "part-house and...
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Opendesk provides open-source furniture for Kano's London office
Open-source furniture company Opendesk has created customised workspace fittings for self-build computer brand Kano (+ slideshow). Desks and storage units were manufactured using computer numerically...
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Opendesk Express launches "desks on demand" service for London's workplaces
Business news: open-source furniture brand Opendesk has launched a service aimed at disrupting the contract furniture industry, allowing businesses to order locally manufactured products that can be...
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Paul Crofts designs minimal white amp for Audioberry
The volume dial is the only focal point on London designer Paul Crofts' pared-back amp, created for new hi-fi company Audioberry (+ slideshow). The Junior Amp's smooth white casing — crafted in solid...
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Plans for tiny house by Foundry Architects made available for purchase
Anyone wanting to construct their own tiny house can now buy detailed plans for a micro dwelling designed by Washington DC studio Foundry Architects (+ slideshow). The Minim House — its name taken from...
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Hack Chair by Ronen Kadushin
Berlin designer Ronen Kadushin has created a chair made of a single sheet of metal and published the design so that it can be downloaded, manipulated and produced by anyone. Kadushin has made the CAD...
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Competition: five copies of Open Design Now to be won
Competition: we've teamed up with Dutch design organisation Premsela to offer readers a chance to win one of five copies of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. The book by Creative...
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Copy by Kueng Caputo
DMY Berlin: Zurich designers Kueng Caputo exhibited copies of fellow exhibitors' work at DMY International Design Festival in Berlin last week. Above: table by Thomas Schnur (see our earlier story)...
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Copy and Authorship by Lucas Verweij
DMY Berlin: eight students of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin presented copies of work by famous designers at DMY Berlin last week as part of a workshop with critic Lucas Verweij. Top: Honeycomb...
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Open Design Now launch at DMY Berlin
In this movie filmed at DMY Berlin, Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs chaired a panel discussion with editors and authors of Open Design Now: Why Design Cannot Remain Exclusive. The book by Creative...
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Competition: ten packs of Sugru to be won
Competition: we've teamed up with the makers of Sugru to give away ten packs of their plastic modelling clay for hacking products. The self-adhesive material can be used to customise, improve,...
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Inside Out Furniture by Minale-Maeda
Dutch Design Week 2011: components for this furniture by Rotterdam designers Minale-Maeda can be downloaded, 3D-printed and assembled locally. Consumers can download the blueprints for each piece and...
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Timayui Kindergarten by el Equipo de Mazzanti
The monochrome, mosaic-clad classrooms at this preschool in Santa Marta, Colombia, are grouped into modular clusters around triangular courtyards. Local architects el Equipo de Mazzanti designed the...
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WikiGlasses by Lynton Pepper
London architect Lynton Pepper of 00:/ designed these open-source spectacle frames in 18mm plywood to be made from the offcuts of his studio's WikiHouse project. The WikiHouse platform allows people...
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Hacked Lab at La Rinascente
Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked...
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The Future in The Making: Open Design Archipelago
Milan 2012: in a Milanese palazzo this week Italian design magazine Domus presents an exhibition of open design and digital manufacture that puts control of production processes in the hands of...
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"Hacktivists in the frontline battle for the internet" - The Guardian
Dezeen Wire: in an interview with Guardian journalist James Ball, technological rights campaigner John Perry Barlow of Electronic Frontiers Foundation (EFF) discusses the importance of establishing...
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"From handicraft to digicraft: Milan's furniture fair looks to the future" -...
Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk writes about the focus on alternative means of production, open-source design and crowd-funding that permeated this year's Milan furniture fair in his column...
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Interview: Joseph Grima at Dezeen Studio
Milan 2012: end-user collaboration and open-source production were hot topics in Milan this year. In this movie filmed at Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST, editor-in-chief of Domus magazine...
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WikiHouse by 00:/ at Hacked Lab
Milan 2012: London designers 00:/ recently showed visitors to Milan's most famous department store how to construct a wooden house from a downloaded kit of parts. The self-assembly structure is one in...
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Interview: Justin McGuirk at Dezeen Studio
Milan 2012: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio, Guardian critic Justin McGuirk gives us his take on the future of design criticism, as fast reactions on platforms like Twitter and Facebook are...
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Technology and Design: the digital industrial revolution
Digital manufacturing and open-source design are revolutionising the way designers make their products, reports Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs in this latest article from our series on technology...
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Verbandkammer by Nilsson Pflugfelder
This modular container by architects Nilsson Pflugfelder of London and Berlin can be reconfigured to create a workspace, artist's residence, archive or meeting area as required by its host, the FLACC...
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Gun enthusiasts release open-source kits for 3D-printed Wiki Weapons
News: a group of libertarian activists in the U.S. plans to distribute open-source blueprints for homemade 3D-printed guns, provoking questions about the potential uses of the increasingly affordable...
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3D printers could "print ammunition for an army"
News: advances in 3D printing could allow people to "print ammunition for an army", according to Ronen Kadushin (pictured above), one of the pioneers of the open design movement. Kadushin spoke to...
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"It’s more than a technological revolution; it's a cultural revolution" -...
News: new technologies are causing a "cultural revolution" that will transform the way objects are made and the way they look, according to the curator of Adhocracy, a new exhibition exploring the...
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Open Source Architecture Manifesto by Carlo Ratti Associati
Visitors to the Adhocracy show at the Istanbul Design Biennial are confronted with a plotter taking the text of the Open Source Architecture Manifesto from a Wikipedia page and writing it onto a wall....
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3D printing is "bringing the factory back to the individual"
News: cheap 3D printers mean manufacturing can again take place at home as it did before the industrial revolution, according to MakerBot Industries CEO and co-founder Bre Pettis (+ audio). Above:...
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Filter for Open Source Water Boiler by Unfold
Istanbul Design Biennial: Belgian design studio Unfold have created a 3D printed ceramic filter for an open source water boiler and purifier that was developed by Jesse Howard in collaboration with...
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Nokia releases files for 3D printing mobile phone cases
News: mobile phone maker Nokia has released open-source files that will let Lumia 820 smartphone users 3D print their own customised case. Nokia has published mechanical drawings for the phone's back...
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Nokia is "first global company to embrace open design"
News: Nokia has become the first major manufacturer to give consumers access to its 3D design files so they can create their own versions of products, according to open design pioneer Ronen Kadushin....
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OUYA by Fuseproject
Designer Yves Behar of San Francisco studio Fuseproject has launched his OUYA open-source game console. Fuseproject developed OUYA with technology start-up Boxer8 for open-source gaming on a TV,...
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African children's library with rammed earth walls by BC Architects and Studies
This children's library with rammed earth walls in Burundi, Africa, was built by Belgian studio BC Architects and Studies and members of the local community, according to an open-source design template...
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Space10 and Opendesk are among the first to "hack" Tom Dixon's modular bed...
The Space10 innovation lab has teamed with open-source manufacturing platform Opendesk to create workspace attachments for IKEA's Delaktig system by Tom Dixon. Created by a team of seven designers, the...
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American architects mobilise to make coronavirus face shields for hospital...
Architects across America including BIG, KPF and Handel Architects have teamed up as part of an open-source project to manufacture face shields to protect hospital workers treating coronavirus...
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Standard Issue creates open-source design for CNC-cut face mask
Brooklyn design agency Standard Issue has created an open-source design for a face mask that can be CNC-cut and produced on a large scale. Standard Issue's product, called One Mask, is designed so it...
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Space10 shares platform for people to create "dream home" for bees
IKEA's research lab Space10 has developed a series of open-source bee homes that anyone can design themselves for free before having it made using a CNC machine. Created in collaboration with Bakken...
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Polyformer is an open-source machine that recycles plastic bottles into 3D...
California-based industrial designer Reiten Cheng has developed a recycling machine that can be 3D printed using open-source instructions and used to turn PET bottles into filament for additive...
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Dezeen Agenda newsletter features an open-source recycling machine for...
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features Polyformer, an open-source recycling machine that can be used to turn PET bottles into filament for additive manufacturing. Subscribe...
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Microsoft's open-source design for Pride flag incorporates 40 communities
Microsoft has created a kaleidoscopic new version of the Pride flag that represents 40 different LGBTQIA+ communities and can evolve to include even more. Microsoft, which says the project was created...
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COP27 carbon calculator aims to cut "obscene" travel emissions from climate...
A team of University College London researchers, led by Bartlett professor Priti Parikh, has developed an open-source calculator that allows those travelling from the UK to Egypt for COP27 to assess,...
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Open-source Re:Mix blender works with household jars
German tech company Open Funk has developed a more sustainable version of a food processor, which is repairable, upgradable and compatible with glass jars that people already have in their homes....
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"Everyone from children to the elderly" can build DIY air purifier
Jihee Moon of South Korean design studio Newtab-22 has developed an open-source IKEA-style manual with instructions on how to build the Air-It-Yourself air purifier in under an hour using everyday...
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