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Augmented reality meets distributed manufacturing

COLLABORATIONS – MONDAY, 17 SEPTEMBER, 2018

Ode to the Digital Commons, embracing abundance

EDUCATION – TUESDAY, 27 FEBRUARY, 2018

Opendesk at London Design Fair

DESIGN – TUESDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER, 2017

Meet the designers- Jose Pacheco in Barcelona

DESIGN – FRIDAY, 15 SEPTEMBER, 2017

Meet the makers- Rob in San Francisco

MAKE – TUESDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 2017

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NEWS

Opendesk - made better!

Continuing our efforts to realise a sustainable, equitable and ethical supply-chain that's better for people and planet.

NEWS

Year in Review: Bitesize insights from 2018

We take a look back at 2018 and pull together a compelling list of insightful statistics.

DESIGN

Parametric Design and Tailoring

How parametric design processes allow us to offer tailored products to the nearest millimetre.

DESIGN

Tailor-made: furniture that fits (part 2)

Find out how to tailor a further seven Opendesk designs in our latest tailoring update (follows Tailor-made part 1)

DESIGN

Tailor-made: furniture that fits (part 1)

There's now more opportunity than ever to alter the size of Opendesk furniture to suit your individual needs.

MAKE

Meet the Makers: Wilder Creative in London

Building a maker community - and lots of Opendesk furniture - in Leyton, East London.

COLLABORATIONS

Augmented reality meets distributed manufacturing

AR meets local, distributed furniture production with Opendesk, VRTX Labs and Apple iOS 12

EDUCATION

Ode to the Digital Commons, embracing abundance

Pt.2 How we can remove the hobbles of Copyright and embrace the abundance of digital work.

EDUCATION

Ode to the Digital Commons, the Copyright conundrum

Pt.1 The digital age fundamentally changes the way cultural and creative industries work.

NEWS

2017’s best reads

We published 77 articles during 2017! Here's a curated list of our ten favorite reads.

NEWS

Bitesize insights from 2017

We look back on a busy 2017 and share some of our favourite insights from the year.

MAKE

Meet the Makers: Andy from Superfab

Where amazing design, old school craft and new age digital tooling come together.

WORKSPACE

The Concept Space+ for Students by UBS

Inside the UBS Concept Space for students offering co-working, events and a taste of the digital banking world.

WORKSPACE

In Flight: design and reinvigoration in Denver

A conversation with design studio, Wunder Werkz, on local, sustainable design in downtown Denver.

MAKE

Meet the Makers: Scott at Housefish

From Formula One cars to furniture design and building businesses based on ethical supply chains.

WORKSPACE

Opendesk x Google: Meet Project Jack

What is a flexible space? The answer from Google exists in the form of a moveable, modular meeting room.

WORKSPACE

4 ways to create flexible spaces

How to create flexible workplaces with multifunctional furniture that facilitates collaboration

COLLABORATIONS

Monocle X Opendesk

Joni Steiner speaks to Monocle's Matt Alagiah on 'The Entrepreneurs'.

EDUCATION

Why Ply? Covering the basics

Peeling back the layers on our favourite sheet material.

NEWS

Another Dimension: Introducing Tailoring

Want your desk shorter or longer? Tailor select Opendesk design for free on orders placed this November.

NEWS

New design: The Johann Bench

The Johann Stool's big brother, The Johann Bench, is the latest addition to the Opendesk collection.

DESIGN

Opendesk for open plan: shortlisted designs

A selection of our favourite designs from the recent call for submissions.

DESIGN

Meet the designers: Anne and Gary of AtFab

We caught up with designers, architects and creators of AtFab Anne and Gary.

EDUCATION

Tools of the trade

7 essential router bits used to make Opendesk furniture on CNC milling machines.

NEWS

Design Revamp: Wiki Booth

Discover the Wiki Booth: a hybrid telephone and solo-working booth perfect for open plan spaces

MAKE

Free as in beer

A self-proclaimed CNC Dinosaur reflects on 20 years making dust and noise.

COLLABORATIONS

Open-Making the Olympic Legacy

How Here East is getting people and businesses to set up shop in the former Olympic Park.

NEWS

New Design: The Hot Desk

We're excited to launch the brand new Hot Desk; designed with casual co-working in mind.

DESIGN

Meet the designers: Denis in São Paulo

We catch up with designer and architect Denis Fuzii at his home in São Paulo, Brazil.

NEWS

Goliath CNC - A robotic tool for every workshop

We run through the new robotic CNC machine from Springa and meet founder Lorenzo Frangi.

DESIGN

Design Revamp - Denis’s Valovi Chair

We chat to Denis about the origins of his Valovi Chair which has been downloaded and made in 100 countries.

MAKE

Sergi Beltran - A lifetime of woodworking in Barcelona

From woodworking in Barcelona to recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. Read Sergi’s story of resurrection.

DESIGN

Meet the designers- Pierrick in Saint-Étienne

We meet Open Design advocate Pierrick at his Studio in the heart of Saint-Étienne, France

DESIGN

New Design: The Canteen Table

Meet the Canteen Table - the newest member of the Opendesk family

DESIGN

Open Call 1: Opendesk for Open Plan

Want your design on Opendesk? We're very excited to launch our first public design brief: Opendesk for Open Plan.

DESIGN

Design for Open Making and CNC machines

Our illustrated guide to design for Open Making and CNC machines.

DESIGN

Design Revamp - Pierrick’s Roxanne Chair

Two years since its introduction to Opendesk, we're releasing the best Roxanne Chair yet.

DESIGN

Digital woodworking- remastering traditional joints

Some of our favourite CNC made joints from remastered classics to new experiments.

DESIGN

Opendesk at London Design Fair

Go behind the scenes in the Opendesk Press Lounge at the London Design Fair

DESIGN

CNC machines and common cut types

Our illustrated guide to CNC machining featuring some of the most common cut types.

DESIGN

New Design: The Collaboration Table

Meet the newly launched Collaboration Table: a 10 seater designed with group work in mind

DESIGN

V&A Plywood exhibition

The first exhibition the Victoria & Albert Museum has ever dedicated to a single material shows it’s surprising origins and versatility. It also uses...

COLLABORATIONS

Designing Through Play: The LEGO® Idea Studio

Our collaboration with GXN and The LEGO Foundation to create The LEGO® Idea Studio

DESIGN

Meet the designers- Jose Pacheco in Barcelona

We meet engineer and hobby designer Jose Pacheco at his home in Poblenou, Barcelona.

WORKSPACE

London College of Communication

How Opendesk furniture has taken Kelly and the LCC faculty from fixed to agile working.

DESIGN

3 Creatives share their routines & must-have tools

How to organise your creative space, inspired by the Layout Table and three top creatives.

MAKE

Meet the Makers: Dan in Oxford

From apprentice woodworker to successful bespoke kitchen maker. We meet Dan from Evie Willow.

COLLABORATIONS

Props to these forward thinking brands!

Once again we worked with great partners who provided props for our latest shoot to help bring Opendesk designs to life.

DESIGN

New Design: Kano Storage

A clever modular storage system, developed in conjunction with DIY computer company Kano.

MAKE

Meet the makers- Rob in San Francisco

Rob’s journey from travelling engineer to owner of successful San Francisco based workshop- Lucid Machine Art.

DESIGN

Design Revamp- Jose’s Slim Chair

An engineers approach to furniture design for CNC manufacture- meet the latest Slim Chair.

DESIGN

Design Revamp: David’s Unit Table

The versatile Unit Table, designed by David Steiner, is a workspace and dining table in one.

DESIGN

Meet the designers- Lynton Pepper in London

We meet architect, designer and part-time photographer Lynton Pepper in East London.

DESIGN

Design Revamp: Lynton’s Pedestal

A closer look at Lynton's multi-purpose Pedestal and its eight-year iterative design journey.

DESIGN

Design Revamp: The Breakout Table

How to use the new Breakout Table to create an informal and collaborative space in your office.

WORKSPACE

Block & Tackle: Visual storytelling in New York City.

We met Ted from Block & Tackle to learn about life as a design-driven production company in the Big Apple.

DESIGN

Design Revamp: The Original Opendesk

Thanks to feedback from our maker community and customers, we’re releasing our best ever Lean Desk.

WORKSPACE

Local making in Ankara, Turkey- meet Mill Architects.

We meet Dinçer and Mehmet from Mill Architects and learn how they brought local making to Ankara.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Drew in Peckham

From nine to five in the corporate world to setting up his own workshop. We meet Drew from Hub Workshop in Peckham.

DESIGN

Design Revamp: Divide Your Space

It’s now more affordable than ever to create flexible, multifunctional partition walls in open plan spaces.

DESIGN

Opendesk X The Vitra Schaudepot

Opendesk’s Valovi chair and Edie stool are both now part of the Vitra Design Museum’s permanent collection.

WORKSPACE

Rabble Studio: creative co-working in Cardiff

Rabble Studio is a co-working space for creative minds in Cardiff, complete with Studio Desks, Pedestals and one gigantic Team Desk.

COLLABORATIONS

Opendesk X SPACE10 X IKEA X Tom Dixon

Mass production meets hyper-local fabrication via 7 designers experimenting with recycled materials.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Kyle in San Diego

We meet Kyle from San Diego and learn how he turned his hobby into a business by registering as an Opendesk maker.

COLLABORATIONS

5 brands doing things differently

Meet the five brands we partnered with for our most recent photoshoot who also believe in sustainable practices, smart tech and local making.

DESIGN

New design: Linnea Bookshelf

We meet Chicago-based design duo Pia and Sam to learn more about the recently launched Linnea Bookshelf

EVENTS

Opendesk Panel: Flexible Working & Workplace Design

Missed the Bundle Desk launch event on Wednesday?

DESIGN

New design: The Bundle Desk

We met with Thor ter Kulve on his narrow boat on Regent’s Canal to discuss the recently launched Bundle Desk.

COMPANY CULTURE

Why we’re retiring designs

We’ve made the hard decision to bring down the curtain on some of our oldest, original designs.

DESIGN

New Design: Say hello to the Nimble Stool

Introducing the Nimble Stool, a perfect companion for standing tables, desks or breakfast bars

WORKSPACE

Grammatik: the boutique agency in the heart of Bethnal Green

We chart the Grammatik journey from a refurbished shipping container to their East London space with skyline views

COMPANY CULTURE

Greening your office: how to bring the outside in

We examined the business benefits of bringing more natural elements into the workplace.

DESIGN

New Designs: Introducing The Fin Planters

Introducing The Planters: a natural evolution of the Fin range bringing green into the workplace.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Kristin in London

Kristin tells us about Machines Room’s unique mission as a maker space in London.

DESIGN

Bauhaus X Opendesk: Craft becomes local

The most influential Art & Design school of the 20th Century, the Bauhaus will be 100 years old in 2019

WORKSPACE

Growth Tribe: First Growth Hacking Academy

The Growth Tribe Academy is nestled on the Kattenburg island in Amsterdam.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Andrea in Brooklyn

We met with Andrea to chat about life at The Factory NYC and the team's keen eye for perfection.

COMPANY CULTURE

Continuous improvement over delayed perfection

How an iterative approach to product design equals more momentum and less waste.

WORKSPACE

Animation meets fabrication: a truly unique workplace

We got in touch with Jeremy and Evan at Black Math to uncover how they built out their Boston-based agency

COLLABORATIONS

Design Museum X Opendesk: a Superlocal take on making

We meet Andrea de Chirico, recent designer in residence at the Design Museum, who created Superlocal...

WORKSPACE

Inside Linden Staub: a modelling agency with a difference

Today we’d like to show you around a London modelling agency that's run by women, for women.

WORKSPACE

Maker Wharf is a hidden gem of coworking in Shoreditch, London

Maker Wharf is a friendly co-working space, run from a church hall and rooted in the local East London community.

COMPANY CULTURE

Why we said goodbye to Opendesk Express

Essential part of product management is knowing when to make the hard decision of calling time on something for the good of your product.

WORKSPACE

TMRW: an inspiring coworking space in Croydon

A new coworking space in Croydon that brings community and design to the forefront.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Giles in Croydon

We had a chat with Giles who is a founder of Creator an amazing workshop and production company in Croydon.

WORKSPACE

Old Oak co-live/work space in London

Old Oak is a new typology of building, introducing co-living and co-working to North London.

MAKE

Meet the makers - Enrique in Mexico City

Enrique Hernandez started Ensambleria on his own in 2013, and now works with a team of 10 craftspeople, including his son. They're professional cabinetmakers...

MAKE

Meet the makers - Fabrice & Nicolas in Lyon

We created la Fabrique in June 2008 with the intent to become a 21st-century cabinet maker: local, collaborative and social

COLLABORATIONS

Onshape meets Opendesk

An open invitation to join the experiment in distributed design using Onshape and the Opendesk Studio desk.

WORKSPACE

MIX Co-working in Lyon, France

MIX is a co-working space founded on strong values, and based in Tassin, near Lyon.

DESIGN

Opendesk for London Design Festival

Thank you all for visiting and supporting us during London Design Festival.

MAKE

Autocorrect for your hands

We catch up with Shaper Tools on the world's first hand-held CNC machine.

DESIGN

Opendesk at Trailerpark Festival I/O

Last week Opendesk took a short flight to Copenhagen and joined Space 10 at Trailerpark I/O.

COMPANY CULTURE

Common Sense - An online documentary

Common Sense is a online documentary that looks at the historic concept of the Commons and how it is more relevant than ever.

COLLABORATIONS

Opendesk at Autodesk

Opendesk get's invited to the Forge Cloud Accelerator program to help develop the future of distributed manufacturing.

COLLABORATIONS

Transitioning towards a Circular Economy

As part of our final year at the Royal College of Art, we decided to team up and work on a year long project

DESIGN

Open Archive, The Half Sheet Bar Table

Our third Open Archive release is a celebration of Open Design and the collaborative culture it instills.. Co-authoring the Half Sheet Bar Table.

DESIGN

Opendesk at Atelier Clerici

During the Salone del Mobile Milan transforms into a playground for designers.

DESIGN

Open Archive, The Kano Display Unit

We’re turning back the clocks for our second Open Archive release, The Kano Display Unit as featured in dezeen.

DESIGN

Open Archive, The Opendesk Foosball Table

A push for transparency, celebrating the truth of our mission. Let's make more designs public!

DESIGN

Open Archive, Let’s make more designs public!

Many of our followers asked if we were going to make the design public. Our response - lets do it!

TECH

Co-designing the Opendesk Smartdesk

The singularity has four legs and is 750mm high

EDUCATION

Opendesk and Universities

A project with Kingston University’s Furniture and Product Design students kicks of a string of collaborative projects between Opendesk and universities....

COMPANY CULTURE

Opening Up Opendesk

Our mission here at Opendesk is to change the way products are designed and made on a global scale - putting the spotlight back on real people

COMPANY CULTURE

Wish Opendesk Would

Today we’re pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Wish Opendesk Would' Trello Board!

MAKE

Shanghai CNC Story

On a corner of the Bridge 8 creative cluster in central Shanghai, nested among companies like IDEO, Herman Miller and a range of architectural & media...

COMPANY CULTURE

The Art of Sharing

Mum’s secret recipe

DESIGN

Opendesk on Demand

Introducing the Opendesk on demand drawing exporter!

DESIGN

Back To Stool, Second Edition by Miocugino

After the successful first edition of “Back to stool”, Miocugino, Vectorealism and Opendesk return to encourage you to be a part of this design challenge.

NEWS

Introducing Opendesk Express

We’re excited to announce that we’re launching a new service today, starting in London.

DESIGN

Opendesk at the Vitra Design Museum

Here at Opendesk we’re excited to be exhibiting The Open Making Manifesto as part of the Vitra Design Museum’s #itsalldesign exhibition.

COMPANY CULTURE

Open Making*: a social, distributed experiment

Open Making* is enabled by technology but it’s not only about technology, and it does not refer only to the files of a project and the physical output or the...

MAKE

The return of Urban Manufacturing

Through the spread of new technology and readily available information

COLLABORATIONS

Making Things in the Open

A more transparent and open future is increasingly moving beyond the realms of activists and academics to be more widely talked about.

TECH

Buro - A Data Desk

With Condoleezza Rice on the board of Dropbox and Snowden confirming all the conspiracy theories, maybe you could keep your stuff safe in your desk again.

DESIGN

Open Making at the Palace

Buckingham Palace just ordered a bespoke lectern for HRH The Duke of York. Opendesk designed it - and Ian made it locally - in under two weeks from prototype...

Prototyping Opendesk - the story of how it began

Joni Steiner, our Creative Director and Co-founder, recalls how the desk the original open desk came about.

MAKE

Born in the USA - Local making California

An Open Making journey from San Francisco to San Francisco.

DESIGN

‘Primeval-Chair’ design competition, Slovenia

Marko Stijepic guides us through the Festival Lesa (Festival of Wood) and pays tribute to the primeval forests of Kočevska in Slovenia.

MAKE

New York Maker Faire: an Open Making experience

Opendesk and 100k Garages came together with a distributed manufacturing experience and created a new design range, Make Local.

MAKE

Make Local

100k Garages and Opendesk have come together for the New York maker showdown that is the World Maker Faire.

MAKE

We’re open for Maker Mile

Opendesk and 12 others are turning a part of east London into the Maker Mile for the London Design Festival on 21st September.

COMPANY CULTURE

A photographic visit to Mexico

An architectural showcase from our resident photographer, Rory Gardiner.

DESIGN

CAD Solutions for Open Making

Standardising CAD for Open Making has its challenges. Harry Keen explores where we can start.

COMPANY CULTURE

Into the Open

Silvia Gasparotto explores the differences of open source and open hardware and the trends that are developing.

MAKE

Maker Bench

"Our idea was a customisable workbench for any kind of project. We called it Maker Bench."

COLLABORATIONS

Casa Jasmina

Arduino invited us to Casa Jasmina and the Maker Faire in Torino. Obviously we accepted!

MAKE

What is CNC?

Boris Goldberg, designer and maker, provides an intro to the world of CNC and how it applies to Open Making

COMPANY CULTURE

The first Opendesk

How designing Mint Digital's London office brought Opendesk into being...

WORKSPACE

An interview with Top10

We caught up with Tom, CEO and co-founder of Top10, after he chose Opendesk.

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