“Travelogue: Greek everyday solutions to common problems” is a book years in the making. Stemming from the project “DIY: who’s the designer?” by papairlines, this publication serves as a visual journey into the spontaneous DIY culture throughout Greece and explores the connection between design as a practice and the artefacts made by anonymous individual creators.

To the question “What ingenious objects might exist in Greece that have been created by DIY designers?”, papairlines responded with an open call to professional and amateur photographers asking for images from all over the country. The responses brought invaluable fresh information and interesting objects from distant and remote locations.

The photographs found in the book are contributions from different parts of Greece, by photographers who are not necessarily the object creators, but successfully capture the essence of these artefacts.

Text by Åsa Ståhl

Published by Hyper Hypo, Athens, April 2024

ISBN: 978-618-86646-4-7