The color of IKEA sofas over time I was wondering if…
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The color of IKEA sofas over time
I was wondering if furniture has actually become less colorful throughout the years. So I hand-counted the colors 3500 couches in the IKEA catalogues from 1960-2021 (when the catalogue was discontinued).
There were definitely easier ways to do this, but I didn't think I'd ever sit down to leaf through every IKEA catalogue under different circumstances, and I thought it would be fascinating.
To do the count I vibecoded a "tallying machine" with Claude which allowed me to punch in the color of each couch I saw, per year (green, green, grey, black, green etc.). The visual itself was made in Illustrator.
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I was wondering if furniture has actually become less colorful throughout the years. So I hand-counted the colors 3500 couches in the IKEA catalogues from 1960-2021 (when the catalogue was discontinued).
There were definitely easier ways to do this, but I didn't think I'd ever sit down to leaf through every IKEA catalogue under different circumstances, and I thought it would be fascinating.
To do the count I vibecoded a "tallying machine" with Claude which allowed me to punch in the color of each couch I saw, per year (green, green, grey, black, green etc.). The visual itself was made in Illustrator.
#education
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