I found on designboom some very nice reports from the Toshare Festival. As designboom publish its contents under copyright, I can’t republish them but just publish the links (blogs were born as a solution for link sharing).
Here are the links for the share prize exhibition and especially the manufacturing (divided in 1, 2, 3 [...]

Tags: Italy, Technology

Back from Toshare.it, where I saw some interesting projects and met very interesting persons…
From there, I’d like to suggest you a project that shows how design could get inspiration from complexity. This is maybe the first step a designer could take confronting complexity, and therefore projects like this are not only fascinating but also promising [...]

Tags: Architectural Design, Complexity, Design, Emergence, Interaction Design, Italy, Movie Design, Realtime, Self-Organization, Swarm / Flock / Crowd

Openmoko: Neo1973

We can say that these days the first mass product completely open source has been distributed. Therefore, this is the first example of a real Open Design, not tied to individual experiments or niche markets (albeit very important): the first example of how open source philosophy can be adopted not only in areas different [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Community-Based Services, Free Software, Mobile, Open Source, Product Design

I’m sorry I have not written very much in the past two months but I’ve been busy with a new job and moving to another city…meanwhile, I’m working for a new version of the site, 1.1, to launch when I will publish my new little book that will summarize my thesis and one year of [...]

Tags: Innovation, Italy, Sharing, Technology