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Too Sexy for your C-Shirt?
Simon Dingle · Johannesburg (South Africa) · 16/6/2007 02:58 · 54 votes
The C-Shirt project was originally launched by Dominick Chen and Yuko Noguchi to raise funds for Creative Commons Japan. The project applies customisation culture to t-shirt design. At the iCommons Summit in Croatia, a workshop was held where commoners could design their own C-Shirts as a practical illustration of how CC licenses are applied to remix and customisation culture. Behind the project is an application called Ximer, which aims to provide far more than just t-shirt remixing.
The web application (Ximer is ‘Remix’ in reverse) allows users to take CC licensed works and use them in t-shirt designs. The application includes editing tools to alter the images as well as to import content from Flickr, Wikipedia, user files and other sources to be edited and included in the design.
CC-licensed content have also been made available by Loftwork, a Japanese organisation that provides a collaboration platform and working community for designers.
“It’s about enabling customisation culture using Creative Commons as a legal infrastructure,” says Chen, speaking at the Summit. “The goal is to turn ‘customer’ into ‘customiser’ by enabling micro creativity.”
Once ‘remixed’ the t-shirt design can be ordered from the C-Shirt site or even made available for others to purchase – or remix themselves.
Isshu Rakusai and Ken Suzuki, developers of Ximer explain that CC licensing is intrinsic to their software. “We need CC because we need to remix,” affirms Rakusai.
Ximer is being expanded as a platform for remixing any online content, from anywhere, so long as the relevant licenses are considered. Content remixed in Ximer will then be exportable to blogs, as downloadable files or numerous other outlets. The goal is to provide a framework for any online content to be remixed.
In the future development of the application, the plan is also to include intelligence surrounding CC license specifications so that Ximer can ensure that license conditions are adhered to for CC-licensed work.
Ximer will also track changes on the work to facilitate for backward-propagation of creative works.
The application is being launched end 2007.
The web application (Ximer is ‘Remix’ in reverse) allows users to take CC licensed works and use them in t-shirt designs. The application includes editing tools to alter the images as well as to import content from Flickr, Wikipedia, user files and other sources to be edited and included in the design.
CC-licensed content have also been made available by Loftwork, a Japanese organisation that provides a collaboration platform and working community for designers.
“It’s about enabling customisation culture using Creative Commons as a legal infrastructure,” says Chen, speaking at the Summit. “The goal is to turn ‘customer’ into ‘customiser’ by enabling micro creativity.”
Once ‘remixed’ the t-shirt design can be ordered from the C-Shirt site or even made available for others to purchase – or remix themselves.
Isshu Rakusai and Ken Suzuki, developers of Ximer explain that CC licensing is intrinsic to their software. “We need CC because we need to remix,” affirms Rakusai.
Ximer is being expanded as a platform for remixing any online content, from anywhere, so long as the relevant licenses are considered. Content remixed in Ximer will then be exportable to blogs, as downloadable files or numerous other outlets. The goal is to provide a framework for any online content to be remixed.
In the future development of the application, the plan is also to include intelligence surrounding CC license specifications so that Ximer can ensure that license conditions are adhered to for CC-licensed work.
Ximer will also track changes on the work to facilitate for backward-propagation of creative works.
The application is being launched end 2007.
tags: Japan other c-shirt remix ximer loftwork summit07
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