Open Source meets design
Ronen Kadushin is a Berlin-based commercial fashion designer who's onto some thing he calls Open Design.
Through Open Design, Kadushin distributes his household objects under a Creative Commons license . Anything you see in the Open Design catalog can be downloaded and recreated, shared and owned by anybody who adheres to the agreements spelled out in Creative Commons.
Creative Commons holds that anything made to be had via it could be utilized by absolutely everyone so long as the originator receives credit score for his or her paintings. This internet site is posted underneath a Creative Commons license and it's some thing I support wholeheartedly.
I'd continually idea of Creative Commons as it relates to net content material and I think it's interesting that a extraordinarily-regarded industrial designer is dispensing chairs and lamps to the world through it.
All you need is AutoCAD and access to a CNC router and you may have any of the objects within the Open Design catalog. Just down load the .Dxf document and you're prepared to head.
I'm fascinated by this concept of direction, but Kadushin appears to have blanketed something in his Open Design catalog that is supposed to be a trap for me mainly. Here it's far.
Does it look familiar? It need to.
It's a mild fixture primarily based at the centerpiece of Picasso's Guernica. Click in this photo to expand the painting.
Guernica is the primary painting I ever studied and thru it I discovered pretty much everything I realize now about art appreciation.
Pablo Picasso painted Guernica for the Paris Expo in 1937. It was his response to the German and Italian bombing of the Basque village of Guernica at 4:30 in the afternoon on a market day. The men, women and children killed that day were innocent civilians and Picasso's painting drew worldwide attention to the bloodbath that was the Spanish Civil War.
In the years since 1937, Picasso's Guernica has become an emblem of the futility of war and the unacceptable toll it takes on innocent civilians. It's one of the most profound pacifist statements of the 20th Century. Look past the Cubist conventions Picasso used in this painting and read a bit about what he's saying.
As an interesting and nearly unknown aside , the estate of Nelson Rockefeller commissioned a tapestry replica of Guernica for the United Nations. From 1985 through 2009 it hung in the UN's headquarters in New York. However in February 2003, when Colin Powell arrived to make the case for the US's invasion of Iraq, the tapestry was covered by a blue tarp so that it wouldn't be the backdrop when he appeared on camera to address the press.
It's on the grounds that been located on permanent mortgage to the Whitechapel Gallery in London. Presumably in order not to embarrass any greater conflict-mongers.
Anyhow, check out Ronen Kadushin's entire Open Design catalog . If you have access to a CNC machine, I'd love to see some results of your downloads. If you find yourself short of a CNC, you can buy Kadushin's stuff already made at Movisi .