If the name the Free Design sounds familiar, but you can’t place why, it’s probably because some of the hippest acts in underground pop—Saint Etienne, the Aluminum Group, High Llamas—are ardent ...

In Hear This, The A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. This week: In honor of SXSW, songs about the music industry. By 1969, the New York sunshine-pop act The Free Design had ...

We must design free hardware. But the question remains: how? First, we must understand why we can’t make hardware free the same way we make software free. Hardware and software are fundamentally ...

To what extent do the ideas of free software extend to hardware? Is it a moral obligation to make our hardware designs free, just as it is to make our software free? Does maintaining our freedom ...

The design industry has fundamentally shifted. AI tools now handle what used to take hours (wireframing, generating variants, initial mockups) in minutes. But this hasn't diminished the need for ...