Disrupt design: OS hails new era in DIY objects

To explore the potential of this model, OS showed a number of examples that illustrated how open-source design can be used. Dutch designer Jesse Howard developed Transparent Tools, a range of items made with 3D printing and a CNC cutting machine. Howard used these fabricating technologies to create a coffee grinder, a toaster and a vacuum cleaner.

This project shows how the accepted format of the design industry is becoming disrupted by new technologies that enable people to design and manufacture items themselves.

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