In this guest post, Itamar Burstein shares his thoughts about "Open source" - the culture that Drupal belongs to - as seen through the eyes of an Industrial designer.

Amitai, my brother asked me to write a little something about, and I quote, "Open source or Drupal or whatever" - to give some examples and to show some pictures. He was very particular about the pictures.

This might be a good moment to point out that I'm a designer, industrial designer, I mostly work with the furniture industry making very specific objects which are decided by the manufacturer, a bunch of business guys and, well, myself. You can imagine that open source doesn't have much to do with what I am doing, but he asked, and I don't like to disappoint my baby brother.

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