Tuesday, November 20, 2007

obsessive consumption

Cool Blog Alert: I have a new, for lack of a better word, "obsession" with the work of Kate Bingaman-Burt and Obsessive Consumption. Kate, an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State University, documents her daily purchases, big and small, through sketches.... Moreover, get this, she is hand drawing all of her credit card statments until they are paid off! Wow, if that isn't an incentive to act quickly, I don't know what is! Check out the bills here.

Kate also has an Etsy shop where she sells little zines filled with her purchases. I ordered my first one a few days ago and received it in the mail last night. Love it.

6 comments:

Andrea said...

cool link! those credit card statements are intense!

andrea joseph's sketchblog said...

yeah, I know Kate's work from Flickr. Very cool, hadn't visited her Etsy shop before though, so thanks for the link.

salvaínha said...

Thank you for visiting my blog and for your nice words!I'll keep visiting yours 'cause I love it!

José Louro said...

Just pass to say «hi» and look what you've been drawing.

Anonymous said...

Blimey! I was beginning to think I might become obsessed myself but this is something else!

Laura Frankstone said...

Man, it exhausts me just to look at ALL of her blogs!! The woman is a natural geyser! What it would take to draw all those credit card statements is something that I don't have, for better or worse ;D, but her productivity is very inspiring. Thank you so much for sharing her info with us!