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02Resources

Everything we know, written down and given away.

Five documents, all free, all downloadable without an account. Written with the practitioners named in them and published under an open licence: reuse them, adapt them, teach from them, and tell us where they are wrong.

01The library

Five documents, 82 pages, nothing behind a form.

Each download is a PDF generated fresh, so you always get the current revision rather than a stale copy.

Field notes

Attribution in Cross-Cultural Design

What a credit line should actually contain, drawn from eleven projects where the crediting was argued over before anything was published.

Estimated reading time
12 min read
Length
PDF, 9 pages
DownloadUpdated August 2026
Sourcebook

The Motif Sourcebook, Volume One

Forty documented motifs, each with its origin, its holders, its known uses and a plain statement of what permission would involve.

Estimated reading time
18 min read
Length
PDF, 24 pages
DownloadUpdated July 2026
Checklist

Studio Checklist: Working With Living Traditions

One page to run before a project starts and one to run before it ships. Written to be printed and marked up, not filed.

Estimated reading time
6 min read
Length
PDF, 4 pages
DownloadUpdated September 2026
Glossary

Glossary of Craft Terms, A to M

Sixty terms that keep getting used loosely, defined by the people who use them precisely. Volume two is in preparation.

Estimated reading time
9 min read
Length
PDF, 14 pages
DownloadUpdated June 2026
Teaching pack

Teaching Pack: Six Objects, Six Places

A six-week unit for design students, with session plans, discussion prompts and an assessment brief that does not reward pastiche.

Estimated reading time
22 min read
Length
PDF, 31 pages
DownloadUpdated August 2026

02Using these

Take them into your studio or your classroom.

Licence
Free to copy, print, translate and adapt, including for teaching you charge for, as long as Atelier Axiom and the named practitioners are credited and the credit travels with any version you make.
Corrections
Every document will be wrong somewhere. Send a source we can check and the entry is corrected with the date and, unless you ask otherwise, your name on it.
Translations
Four of these exist in other languages because readers made them. If you want to translate one, write first and we will send the source text rather than the PDF.
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