Utilitarian You
Utilitarian ‘recipes’, open-source knowledge and ingenuity. New and old design classics for a DIY home and life.
Timeless and puzzling: Enzo Mari
May 16, 2013
By Assemble Papers
The design work of Enzo Mari, iconic Italian provocateur and octogenarian, is often described as elegant, minimal and functional. Grace McQuilten prefers to think of Mari’s work as puzzling, playful and human. Here she looks back at 'autoprogettazione', Mari's range of DIY furniture and a beguiling body of work that defies mass production and the march of time
Year of Open Source
January 25, 2013
By Assemble Papers
Multinationals, corporations, “the man”. Unless you live a hermetic existence, atop a mountain (in which case, you’re probably not reading this), you are no stranger to the world of Coca-Cola & copyright. Technology has made the world smaller, yet the gap between rich & poor, the proprietary & the free, is widening. Sam Muirhead is a filmmaker doing his best to live a freer, more "open source" life
Project Microhouse: Or, How I Learned to Stop Shivering and Live Small
Have you ever made an inventory of all your possessions? Not just the big, expensive stuff, but everything. All your worldly possessions: socks, felt-tip pens, phone chargers, crockery, contraception – the lot. In the case of Alec Farmer, a 23 year-old Glaswegian, his list included three pairs of long johns, 93 books and two decommissioned parachutes
