COPYLEFT

COPYRIGHT

an arrangement whereby software or artistic work may be used, modified, and distributed freely on condition that anything derived from it is bound by the same conditions.

the exclusive and assignable legal right, given to the originator for a fixed number of years, to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material.

‘If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’ - Newton

Wikimedia Commons

Wikimedia Commons is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files. It is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation

OPEN DESIGN ECOLOGY

TASK: Our task was to create a case design for a laser cut print. We used the website above - 'Makercase' to create the frame (net) and layout of the box.

After creating our net we downloaded the file and opened it up on 'Ink Scape' - a free software very similar to Adobe Illustrator - to create our designs

COLOUR CODING FOR LASER CUTTING

CUT

ENGRAVE (LIGHT)

ENGRAVE

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

Open-source software is computer software with its source code made available and licensed with a license in which the copyright holder provides the rights to study, change and distribute the software to anyone and for any purpose.

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE

Open-source hardware consists of physical artifacts of technology designed and offered by the open design movement. Both free and open-source software as well as open-source hardware is created by this open-source culture movement and applies a like concept to a variety of components.