In Blog communities, especially those that use publishing systems like movable type (www.movabletype.org) the publishing system designers are paid through donations. Anyone can download the publishing system, install it on their server space and donate based on the perceived value of its use as long as it is not used to run a business. Many designers are creating plugins for all kinds of functions - some aesthetic and some functional that work with the basic publishing system. See for example the map plugin created by Bryan Boyer at www.bryanboyer.com.
In a recent post on my website I talk about the publishing of F. T. Marinetti's manifesto in the Parisian paper Le Figaro as a direct result of early modernist ideas of individual expression. It is my contention that the self publishing through blogging and the use/donation relationship between programmer/designers and writers are the continuation of this aspect of early modernism within a postmodern context....
Best,
Alan
I have been interested in the exchange of value in a typical design project between designer, manufacturer and end user.
The designer owes allegiance equally to the user and manufacturer in development of a successful design.
Payment for a design usually passes from the user to the manufacturer and then back to the designer.
Are there new models perhaps enabled by technology which would allow value to flow from the user directly to the designer? For example, the designer is paid by direct debit based on the use of the product. This is what happens in a crude way with a royalty.
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