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An abstract collage of blurred, textured colours in shades of yellow, pink and purple. Faint, illegible lines of text and numbers are layered across the composition.

T2D's Metragramme web app creates your average Instagram picture

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Date
28 August 2014

Here’s one of those projects that turns out to be way more interesting than it originally sounds, and it comes courtesy of San Francisco studio T2D (Tomorrow Today). Metragramme takes 32 of your Instagram pictures and combines them into a single image created via pixel-comparisons across the set. The result is therefore a kind of average Instagram picture, and although on first glance many of them look similar; when you explore each a little further you tease out intriguing details, as well as drawing broader conclusions about form and colour palette. We’ve included a few examples below but this is probably one of those tools you;re going to want to try out for yourself – you can visit the site here.

A digital collage of layered, translucent images in warm red and gold tones. Overlapping elements include roses, the “NBA” logo, and a music player interface with the text “Killing Yourself To Impress Mariam”.
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T2D: Metragramme – @astrralph2

An abstract image of a textured surface with blended tones of purple, brown and gold. The colours merge in a soft, hazy glow at the centre.
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T2D: Metragramme – @valpalx

A heavily filtered, blurred image of a red panda. Faded text across the image includes the handle “REDPANDAS_LOVER” and a Facebook URL.
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T2D: Metragramme – @redpandakids

An abstract image of layered, textured squares in muted tones of blue, grey and brown. The colours blend together to create a hazy, atmospheric effect.
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T2D: Metragramme – @sayyesblog

An abstract texture of layered, weathered colours in shades of purple, blue and muted gold. The surface appears scratched and worn, like a distressed wall or aged canvas.
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T2D: Metragramme – @bitboy

An abstract, textured image with a weathered, painterly feel in shades of purple, gold and grey. The composition is framed by a thin border containing the repeated text “RUP100”.
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T2D: Metragramme – @eleanorgalore

An abstract digital collage of layered, translucent shapes in warm tones of orange, gold and muted purple. Overlapping circular forms create a soft, blurred depth across the textured composition.
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T2D: Metragramme – @lalasayaka

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Rob Alderson

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Rob Alderson is a freelance writer, editor and strategist. He was previously editor-in-chief of It’s Nice That and WePresent, and editor of Design Week. He publishes the newsletter Undo, which tries to make sense of how AI is changing design work, the design process and the design industry.

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