D—GR is Dima Grebenkin’s practice for architecture, interiors, and design technology, with projects, writing, experiments, and sketches.https://d-gr.com/en-ushttps://d-gr.com/writing/17-hell-yeah-authorship/https://d-gr.com/writing/17-hell-yeah-authorship/There is an anxiety, to put mildly, around authorship and AI: Who actually made this?Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:33:34 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/16-daily-intelligence-personalized/https://d-gr.com/writing/16-daily-intelligence-personalized/Daily Intelligence is my morning brief, the one I built for myself, with the stuff I actually want to read and the stuff I want to learn.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:58:22 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/15-design-technologist-motto/https://d-gr.com/writing/15-design-technologist-motto/To be a design technologist is to stand in the seam where intent becomes instruction. We translate ambiguity into structure without killing the flow. We're loyal to the…Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:05:25 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/14-konsulate/https://d-gr.com/writing/14-konsulate/Opened Perplexity today, after some time, and saw Model Council rolled out for Pro-tier - a mode where several models answer the same question and get compared, cool…Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:23:17 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/13-articulateness/https://d-gr.com/writing/13-articulateness/Large Language Models have made articulateness an advantage.Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:08:37 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/12-vibe-designing/https://d-gr.com/writing/12-vibe-designing/Large Language Models, aka AI, are the monumental claim that language is everything - that an image is text, a video is text, and somewhere at the bottom of it, even a…Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:43:33 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/10-re-instrumentalizing-the-design-process/https://d-gr.com/writing/10-re-instrumentalizing-the-design-process/Speaking of design process: more than 20 years ago I opened 3DS Max and AutoCAD (and the like) for the first time, and until the last year or so it felt like a gradual…Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/09-ignore-the-glitches-and-regenerate-content/https://d-gr.com/writing/09-ignore-the-glitches-and-regenerate-content/A little note about AI, thinking in process.Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/08-outsideness/https://d-gr.com/writing/08-outsideness/Something about creative process feels annoying: a fresh idea, the second it surfaces, feels electric - there's an immediate urge to run with it, build a project around…Fri, 01 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/07-a-playful-cat/https://d-gr.com/writing/07-a-playful-cat/Back in architecture school we had a course on formal composition, and one of the teachers gave us a framework that sounded completely dorky at the time, especially…Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/06-rule-of-three-ish/https://d-gr.com/writing/06-rule-of-three-ish/I feel like I’ve been coming back to this idea in some form every project I’ve been working on, so I’d care to share – considering that it works like magic: a concept…Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/06-form-before-substance/https://d-gr.com/writing/06-form-before-substance/Famously, Stravinsky once said: "The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision…Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/05-stop-here-take-a-break/https://d-gr.com/writing/05-stop-here-take-a-break/Guilty, I was always the one trying to pull people away from their computers and take a break, and honestly in a lot of environments it felt almost hostile, like…Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/04-fundamental-advantage-of-ai-in-design/https://d-gr.com/writing/04-fundamental-advantage-of-ai-in-design/Designers and architects work in a language that isn't made of words, it's made of form, light, proportion, material, atmosphere. It's incredibly rich, it’s universal…Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/03-jony-ive-knows-something/https://d-gr.com/writing/03-jony-ive-knows-something/I used to sketch all the time, and then I joined a big office and quietly stopped, not as a conscious decision, more like the environment just didn't ask for it. Big…Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/02-fundamental-flaw-of-ai-in-design/https://d-gr.com/writing/02-fundamental-flaw-of-ai-in-design/Designers often can't describe the image in their head, and that's not really a lack of skill, it's the way creativity flows through your mind. And it's exactly why AI…Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkinhttps://d-gr.com/writing/01-linkedin-is-a-terrifying-place/https://d-gr.com/writing/01-linkedin-is-a-terrifying-place/Hi! LinkedIn is a freaking terrifying place.Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTDima Grebenkin