OBSESSIVE CONSUMPTION
April 23, 2010
Ever since February 5th 2006, Kate Bingaman-Burt has been drawing one thing every day that she’s bought. That’s well over three-years-worth of sketches of purchases that we’ll all be familiar with, like cleaning products, post-it notes, hot dogs...
Her hundreds of works have now been grouped together into a book called Obsessive Consumption which seeks to put a personal face on objects that are mass-produced and explore the relationship we have with shopping, shared experiences, repetition and the things that we buy. We especially love her running commentary throughout the book!
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OMG I need this for my dissertation!
Posted by: Kb | April 24, 2010 at 03:37 AM
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God I love Kate's sketches, such a funny thing to do too!
Posted by: rachel | April 24, 2010 at 03:47 PM
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brilliant!
Posted by: vics | April 25, 2010 at 09:14 PM
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brilliant!
Posted by: vics | April 25, 2010 at 09:14 PM
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This book looks brilliant. Keeping a spending diary like this would freak me out- I'd spend my whole life drawing pictures of things I bought
Lucy Laucht
Posted by: lucy Laucht | April 26, 2010 at 09:37 AM
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how sweet!
i must buy this to compare her shopping habits with mine, hehe. although like lucy said above, if i drew everything i bought, i'd probably fill dozens of books, lol!
Posted by: chloe | April 26, 2010 at 08:27 PM
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this book looks amazing!! i've been thinking a lot about financial security and this whole culture of consumption we live in... i'm ordering it asap!
Posted by: joyce | April 28, 2010 at 06:13 AM
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