i’ve been posting for a long time about open design, or the free dissemination of design knowledge. ponoko is a site that allows you to share designs for furniture cut out of sheet material like the plywood pepe baby’s chair (above). on the one hand, paying $120 for a tiny plywood chair seems expensive, on the other, it seems like a platform for potentially cool sharing of design knowledge. plus, from the pictures it’s pretty easy to figure out how to copy the design and re-submit it yourself.