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Greg Allen
Personal blog · greg.org/archivedesignculture
Greg Allen's personal blog at greg.org covers design and culture. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link greg.org for art and design projects: Enzo Mari and IKEA hacks, a 57-portrait self-portrait series, and the Ant Farm Dolphin Embassy. The comments give context and links without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
What is interesting also in Enzo Mari's concept is that there is no instructions, you have to figure out the best order of operations and how to offset some planks with others. For those of you who start from really zero and have no idea how to start, here is a step-by-step for a couple of pieces: https://lieu-subjectif.com/documents/caue-22-rietveld-mari.p... If really you want a "cheat sheet", there's whole book t…
Comment linking /archive/mari-x-ikea.pdf
on “I made a chair”Submitted On Rotating The Dishes as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThe Dolphin Embassy was a project by Berkeley art collective Ant Farm. It's mission was to develop dolphin/human relations through the creation of a common language and a mobile laboratory. The project received funding from the Rockefeller Foundation and was shown at SFMOMA. Ant Farm is considered significant as the first studio practice to incorporate new media in its work. Thematically it looks like they were focu…
Comment linking /archive/2010/06/01/cue_the_dolphin_embassy.html
on “Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us”Submitted On Scraper Capitalism as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFWIW: http://greg.org/archive/2009/11/24/enzo_mari_x_ikea_mashup_c...
Comment linking /archive/2009/11/24/enzo_mari_x_ikea_mashup_ch_last.html
on “Hacking Ikea products to make them personal”Submitted Lazy Web Request: The Saturn Rings Photo App as a story · 1 points
HN discussion57 portraits of one man, presented with art-world framing instead of as local news filler: http://greg.org/archive/2010/04/10/walking_man_-_a_self-port...
Comment linking /archive/2010/04/10/walking_man_-_a_self-portrait_collaboration_with_google_street_view.html
on “Google Street View shoots same woman 43 times”Submitted Art Collective Proposes Open Mobile Lab to Communicate with Dolphins (1974) as a story · 1 points
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