design your own (DYO)

The Do It Yourself trend was driven by the availability of electric power tools and enabled everyone to become a home handyman.
Today with the assistance of computer technology, the DIY trend is being applied to the professions. In legal circles we have the DIY will, in the pseudo-psychology fields we have self help books and seminars and the increasing shift from traditional medicine to alternative medicine is indicative of people looking for self-healing.
Design Your Own (DYO) refers to the application of DIY to the design fields such as graphic design, web design and architecture. Software is now available to make these tasks much easier for the non-trained person. Whilst they don’t make you a design genius, they certainly make design more accessible.
A second part of this trend is the increasing emphasis on designing your own living space. A flood of homestyle and home decorating retail outlets now cater for this trend. One of the world wide suppliers in this field is the Swedish company IKEA. They do the designing, you select the pieces, take them home and assemble them and create your own living spaces.
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