You know more than you think you do: design as resourcefulness and self-reliance.

January 6th, 2010 admin

The RSA has released an exceedingly well written and comprehensive article by Scott Burnham on the concept of design hacks, covering both the developed and the developing world. A snippet from the introduction by Emily Campbell, Director of Design. The stereotypical designer – passionately authentic, famously unbending and always in black – is newly vulnerable to the interference of amateurs. The hard-won tryst between designer, manufacturer and intellectual property rights, likewise, has few defences against the open-source spirit and an internet wherein no secrets are hid. The brave ones embrace it. While cheerful design jam-sessions of professional and amateur go on in cities and …


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