Ronen Kadushin’s elegant, ultra-simple furniture—much of it laser-cut from single sheets of painted steel and manipulated into odd, organic shapes—has earned him international praise, endless awards, and, of course, a fair amount of good, old-fashioned cash. So his fellow designers were shocked when, last year, he started offering the blueprints for his designs as free downloads on his website. Kadushin trusts that manufacturers who sell his works commercially will voluntarily pay him royalties for the privilege, and so far, his faith hasn’t been misplaced. His is the first such open-source model for industrial design and has the potential to revolutionize the design field, much as Linux did the software industry.
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