In this post I’d like to suggest you a Creative Commons-licensed reading, to announce you an event I’m going to participate to and start an open discussion about their common subject: what will probably be the future of Industrial Design and Manufacturing, and how we can draw a map of it?
First, I suggest you reading [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Design, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Maps, Open Design, Product Design

After FluidForms (read this old post), here is another innovative Swiss company based on mass-customization and user co-created content, mShape.
And they use too multi-layered wood and computer controlled milling machines, but here complexity comes from the behaviour of the users, from their co-creation that generates “a population of tables”.
It’s not an open p2p marketplace, it’s [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Hand-craft, Mass-customization, Meta-design, Milling, Mobile, Parametric, Product Design, Switzerland, Technology

Zoybar is a an open design project from Israel founded and designed by the designer Ziv Bar Ilan, and it will be available from January 2009.
It’s the project of an open design guitar, and it is a very interesting one, because it shows interest in building an economic ecosystem (an Open P2P marketplace) and for [...]

Tags: Marketplace, Music, Product Design

One of the key point of Open P2P Design is that the designer/s should become an enabler of the creativity that lays in a community/system. I will write something more about this theme in the future (a very long post is under construction), but for the moment I’d like to suggest you a brief [...]

Tags: Business/Service, Co-Creation, Enabler, Fabbing, Generative system, Locality, Meta-design, Milling, Product Design, Switzerland

The news of the publication of VIA OpenBook’s CAD files has spread rapidly in the web. It is worth now to read some thoughts and quotes that Michel Bauwens of P2P Foundation published in the Foundation Blog.
Citing various sources, Bauwens notices how the openness of this project is actually very limited (CAD files relate solely [...]

Tags: Open Hardware, Product Design, Technology

After the first example of a real Open Design mass product, we have now another example like this, showing us how Open Business strategies are understood and spreaded now. VIA Technologies, the world’s largest independent manufacturer of motherboard chipsets, from Taiwan, published in the last week the CAD files of his last product: the notebook [...]

Tags: Product Design, Technology

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