GENOMICON

In the future (and by that I mean 10-20 years) I think a lot of product design will be free and open sourced, and physical instantiations of these designs will be for sale… but basically anyone will be able to make their own if they want by taking them to their local print shop (which will have aquired 3d fab-lab units) and get the cut/made locally.

Rather than this being the creativity killer that copyright cartels claim it will be, it will lead to an explosion of creativity… a far greater number of people will be able to supplement their income by bridging various mechanical-aptidude gaps than are currently employed in the rarified ivory towers of corporate product design studios.

With that in mind, here’s a designer who makes open-source designs, and sells the products.

The payoff is of course that he gets talked about. I’m talking about him now. People who are involved in the creation of an object are far more likely to become evangelists for the product’s designer.