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Certainly, customization design is still in its early beginnings. But the fundamental technological and economic dynamics starts to unfold only on many levels. And the further we go, the clearer it becomes. The digital media is followed by the digitization of products. Continue reading →

New Conditions and New Possibilities
The shelf in figure 8 at first also follows the conditions of CNC-compatible design: it is based on the use of digital plug joints and can be entirely produced with a CNC mill. To assemble it, the plug joints are locked by the slit side parts and the shelves spread and fix the latter. Continue reading →

IKEA, the furniture brand, embodies an outstanding success story of industrial design. And although the rise of this Swedish enterprise is certainly due to many factors, its design follows primarily one simple principle: IKEA develops cost-efficient self-assembled furniture. Continue reading →

Office Furniture Design for customer-specific furniture production begins with the replacement of characteristic elements that have thus far been developed for the handicrafts or industrial production with CNC-compatible design. Continue reading →

Craft – industry – customization. Everything points at thefact that we’re currently experiencing a fundamental change of our production technologies and systems. This change in production style will most likely also change the style of our products. Continue reading →

This paper is based on the work of C-LAB for customization design at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, Germany. Furniture designs of C-LAB are produced and distributed by an association of mediumsize Continue reading →

Introducing mass customization to the furniture industry has one definitive bottleneck: nearly all of our traditional and modern furniture was either designed for handicraft or industrial technologies. Continue reading →