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Customizable, Downloadable DIY Furniture by Minale-Maeda

“As rising transportation costs push up the price of food and consumer goods, the concept of growing or building something locally is gaining traction.Downloadable design follows in the same vein, and Rotterdam-based designersMinale-Maeda presented a collection of wooden furniture during Dutch Design Week that can be downloaded, customized and assembled at home using materials recuperated locally or at the neighborhood hardware store.”

Why ship a product half way around the world when the knowledge can be transferred digitally and built locally? This could be an interesting potential for design and open-source to reduce transportation costs.

via studio630