You are here: Homepage Tag DIY Articles Chaise longue by Charlotte Perriand, 1940: With the advent of war and militarization, the designer turned away from the industrial metal aesthetic and toward organic materials like wood. Photo: Richard Bryant / arcaid / akg images Make it yourself! In the cultural battlefield From flawless craftsmanship to clumsy do-it-yourself: our ideas of “homemade” are wide ranging. By Justin McGuirk 10/01/2021 Open Design founder Ronen Kadushin Photo: Zohar Gur Arie Make it yourself! “Open design is good for business” Israeli designer Ronen Kadushin explains, why he makes his designs freely available on the internet. A conversation Interview with Ronen Kadushin 10/01/2021 A Kintsugi bowl from Japan: the idea of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver or platinum lacquer probably originated in the 15th century Photo: Motoki Tonn / unsplash Make it yourself! A second lease of life for rubbish Why it’s high time for society to rethink its throwaway culture By Tapiwa Matsinde 10/01/2021 Boris Tikhonovich Kapustin built this thermos wagon from an old refrigerator in the 1990s. It is used to sell filled dumplings at the market Photo: Vladimir Archipov, www.otherthingsmuseum.com Make it yourself! Hidden Designs Cultural history rarely commemorates home-made objects – even though they often have extraordinary tales to tell. By Vladimir Archipov 10/01/2021 The Sámi build their traditional huts, the goahtis, from material found on site Photo: imago / alimdi Make it yourself! A hut made out of wood The Sámi from Scandinavia know how to build a house. For 4,000 years they have been building goahtis to withstand the harsh climate By Joar Nango 10/01/2021
Chaise longue by Charlotte Perriand, 1940: With the advent of war and militarization, the designer turned away from the industrial metal aesthetic and toward organic materials like wood. Photo: Richard Bryant / arcaid / akg images Make it yourself! In the cultural battlefield From flawless craftsmanship to clumsy do-it-yourself: our ideas of “homemade” are wide ranging. By Justin McGuirk 10/01/2021
Open Design founder Ronen Kadushin Photo: Zohar Gur Arie Make it yourself! “Open design is good for business” Israeli designer Ronen Kadushin explains, why he makes his designs freely available on the internet. A conversation Interview with Ronen Kadushin 10/01/2021
A Kintsugi bowl from Japan: the idea of repairing broken pottery with gold, silver or platinum lacquer probably originated in the 15th century Photo: Motoki Tonn / unsplash Make it yourself! A second lease of life for rubbish Why it’s high time for society to rethink its throwaway culture By Tapiwa Matsinde 10/01/2021
Boris Tikhonovich Kapustin built this thermos wagon from an old refrigerator in the 1990s. It is used to sell filled dumplings at the market Photo: Vladimir Archipov, www.otherthingsmuseum.com Make it yourself! Hidden Designs Cultural history rarely commemorates home-made objects – even though they often have extraordinary tales to tell. By Vladimir Archipov 10/01/2021
The Sámi build their traditional huts, the goahtis, from material found on site Photo: imago / alimdi Make it yourself! A hut made out of wood The Sámi from Scandinavia know how to build a house. For 4,000 years they have been building goahtis to withstand the harsh climate By Joar Nango 10/01/2021