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Hacked design focuses on function and inspired invention. As the concept of hacking becomes a positive one, it drives a new generation of makers to use it as a design principle.
It is earnest, spirited, quick, enthusiastic, empowered and fun. This trend is not about beauty – although it creates objects that are both beautiful and functional.
This design movement updates traditional DIY ideas of repair through open-source technology, community initiatives and a modern look and feel.
Hacking becomes an energetic, optimistic design approach. Hacked design is about interrupting and adapting original products. This creates something fresh that performs in a way better tailored to people’s wants and needs.
A democratic design approach for an open-source world.As the new hacking drives a generation of makers to use it as a design principle, Google-sourcing, apps, 3D technology and social networking enable do-it-yourself design.
The search for alternatives that are more community friendly and sustainable than the current factory set-up puts thefocus on open-source making, local sourcing and small-scale public workshops.
Repair is updated to showcase inventive technology, while repurposing – as we give objects a new function – becomes an innovative way to design.
In The Femur Table by Kevin Byrd, a femur bone is modelled
and 3D printed to replace a traditional table leg.
Revolutionary materials like Sugru allow us to fix and improve almost anything, leaving objects looking customised rather than invisibly repaired.
Sugru hacking putty hardens overnight and repairs almost anything,
while the Job Dispensers by François Dumas & Erasmus Scherjon
show how a putty aesthetic can be applied to making from scratch.
Swapping the working parts from one machine into another can change function. For example we can transform an old knitting machine into an internet-enabled one.
The identity-preserving Bitmap Balaclava by Andrew Salamone was
knitted on the Hacked Knitting Machine.
Young designers are now being taught repurposing as part of traditional design theory.
Museum of Design for the Poor is a project by Qiu Zhijie’s Total Art
Studio, where repurposing is the basis of design.
Hacking can be used to update existing objects but also to imagine new ones by disrupting old traditions.
The Chromatic Typewriter by Tyree Callahan replaces letters with
colour pads to create contemporary art.
Google-making is the idea that virtual objects, cobbled together from online search results, can be made real through 3D printing.
Daniel Michel ran a Google search for vase and patched the image
results together to create this unique piece.
Design in a post-digital age can be downloaded, customised and assembled at home using materials recuperated locally.
Minale Maeda created a downloadable pattern for a customisable
furniture range to reduce the customer’s carbon footprint.
Playing with closed-box technology allows us to take control, be creative, explore new function and possibilities that can be a source of inspiration for product development.
Simulen by Jean Katambayi Mukendi is a prototype for a
simple electric machine designed for easy repair to combat
power cuts in Africa.
The hacked aesthetic is one that has crept into art galleries, design fairs and catwalk shows through creatives with a shared revolutionary spirit.
In Reset, Wali Barrech, a student at the Royal Academy of
Fine Arts Antwerp, uses a hacked aesthetic for high design.
Inventive lifestyle designers, inspired by ideas of repurposing, are rethinking objects so they have more than one function.
The Peripatetic Paraphernalia series by Maaike Fransen
repurposes household objects for an imaginary nomadic lifestyle.
In response to the call of if you can’t open it, you don’t own it, designers are exposing the inner workings of their products.
The Forget Me Not series by Ruben Thier emerges as a new
design aesthetic for technological products.
Kludging, a Brazilian term for the method of reworking objects and electronics, looks like steampunkdesign updated for a digital age.
The Armour Bag by Gambiologia incorporates electronics and
discarded items into its design.
Hacking on a local level can mean everything from carving out your own currency, to giving Hollywood blockbusters a Swahili twist.
Sandy Huffaker photographs refugees in San Diego that have
created their own currency with which to trade.
Shanzhai, Chinese logo-free imitations are being rethought by think tanks like IDEO who recognise their power to meet the lifestyle needs of local people.
IDEO analyses Shanzhai as a business opportunity and platform
for innovation.
VJs provide a live voiceover for movie audiences where subtitles are unavailable, peppering the original dialogue with community gossip and unscripted jokes.
Turning Rice into Pilau documents the practice of narrating
Hollywood movies with a local Tanzanian twist.
The Maker’s Bill of Rights is a hacker-friendly design manifesto that promotes home repair, transparency and expandability for all products.
DIY becomes DIY culture with the The Maker’s Bill of Rights
by Mister Jalopy of the Maker movement.
FOLLOW:
BE INSPIRED BY: READ:
Zach Hoeken Smith and Bre Pettis, Founders of MakerBot Industries www.dolectures.com/lectures/the-joy-of-making-something/
LOOK A LITTLE FURTHER
SEE:
The Brazilian Gambiologia movement and the philosophy of kludgingwww.gambiologia.net/blog/gambiologia-presentation/
Open Design Now by Bas van Abel, Lucas Evers, Roel Klaassen, Peter Troxler on the new open design revolution.opendesignnow.org
The Power of Making Exhibitionwww.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/power-of-making/
Slide 1 Title: Peripatetic Paraphernalia series by Maaike Fransen, 2011Source: maaikefransen.com
Slide 2.Title: Technology Will Save Us DIY kitSource: technologywillsaveus.org
Title: Design for this Century lecture notes by Clive Dilnot Source: As seen at www.flickr.com
Slide 3Title: The Hybrid Project by Readymade Projects, Monica Brand, Francisco Lopez & Daniel Hakansson, 2009Source: As seen at www.dezeen.com
Title: Interventions series by SpYSource: spy.org.es
Slide 4Title: The Hybrid Project by Readymade Projects, Monica Brand, Francisco Lopez & Daniel Hakansson, 2009Source: As seen at www.dezeen.com
Title: Thing-o-Matic by MakerBot IndustriesSource: V&A. The Power of Making exhibition
Slide 5Title: Peripatetic Paraphernalia series by Maaike Fransen, 2011Source: maaikefransen.com
Slide 6Title: DIY Speakers demo by Daniel HirschmannSource: As seen at technologywillsa veus.org
Slide 7Title: Technology Will Save us gallery, 2011Source: technologywillsaveus.org
Slide 8Title: Femur Table by Kevin Byrd, 2011Source: work.kevinbyrd.com
Title: Chromatic Typewriter by Tyree Callahan, 2011Source: As seen at news.cnet.com
Title: Reset by Wali Mohammed Barrech, Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, graduate project 2011 Source: Show/Off, issue 4, 2011
Title: Refugee Garden series by Sandy Huffaker, 2011Source: As seen at sandyhuffakerjr.blogspot.com
Slide 9Title: Femur Table by Kevin Byrd, 2011Source: work.kevinbyrd.com
Slide 10 Title: Sugru hacking putty Source: As seen at www.thinkgeek.com
Title: Job Dispensers by François Dumas & Erasmus Scherjon, 2011Source: As seen at www.franklintill.com
Slide 11Title: Chromatic Typewriter by Tyree Callahan, 2011Source: As seen at news.cnet.com
Title: The Bitmap Balaclava by Andrew SalomoneSource: andrewsalomone.com
Slide 12 Title: Museum of Design for the Poor by Qiu ZhijieSource: Leap, August 2011
Title: Simulen by Jean Katambayi MukendiSource: As seen at www.pixelache.ac
Slide 13Title: Chromatic Typewriter by Tyree Callahan, 2011Source: Tyree Callahan/westcollects.com. As seen at news.cnet.com
Slide 14Title: WGSN street shot, London Fashion WeekSource: WGSN
Title: Google Vase by Daniel Michel, 2011 Source: daniel-michel.com
Macro Trends Credits: Hack-tivate
Slide 15Title: Table & Chair from Inside Out Furniture series by Minale Maeda, 2011Source: www.minale-maeda.com
Title: Cabinet from Inside Out Furniture series by Minale Maeda, 2011Source: www.minale-maeda.com
Title: Nightstand from Inside Out Furniture series by Minale Maeda, 2011Source: www.minale-maeda.com
Slide 16Title: Simulen by Jean Katambayi MukendiSource: As seen at www.pixelache.ac
Title: Simulen by Jean Katambayi MukendiSource: As seen at www.pixelache.ac
Slide 17See above
Slide 18 Title: Peripatetic Paraphernalia series by Maaike Fransen, 2011Source: maaikefransen.com
Title: Peripatetic Paraphernalia series by Maaike Fransen, 2011Source: maaikefransen.com
Slide 19Title: Forget Me Not by Ruben ThierSource: rubenthier.nl
Slide 20Title: Armour Bag by Gambiologia, 2008Source: As seen at www.gambiologia.net
Slide 21See above
Slide 22Title: IDEO ShanzhaiSource: As seen at patterns.ideo.com
Slide 23Title: Turning Rice into Pilau: The Art of Video Narration directed by Matthias King, 2011
Slide 24Title: Open Design Now book coverSource: Open Design Now by BIS Publishers (ISBN: 9789063692599)
