Micheal Surtees reviews Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?
at his blog DesignNotes:
At first glance Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?
by Kate Bingaman–Burt seems
pretty straight forward. Kate has drawn objects, things and animals on a
daily basis between Feb 2006 to Feb 2009. While each object is
different, her recognizable drawing style makes all the miscellaneous
consumption consistent. What makes the book worth looking at more than
just the images are the personal annotations that follow each drawing.
Because she’s dated everything a viewer can see what was important on
Christmas or as one example I’ve shown, on Buy Nothing Day. Between the
drawing, story and date a fascinating pattern emerges that shifts the
book about being from design and becomes more of an anthropological or
maybe a social study. (read more)
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