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Kate Bingaman-Burt founded Obsessive Consumption in 2002 and has documented her personal consumption in many different mediums. Her first book, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, made up of daily drawings of her everyday purchases, will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in March 2010. From chairs and boots, to pizza slices and credit card receipts, every item is given importance.
Bingaman-Burt is active in the indie craft and craftivism movements. She provided all of the illustrations for the bookHandmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design as well as the promotional materials for the documentary of the same name.
Kate Bingaman-Burt founded Obsessive Consumption in 2002 and has documented her personal consumption in many different mediums. Her first book, Obsessive Consumption: What Did You Buy Today?, made up of daily drawings of her everyday purchases, will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in March 2010. From chairs and boots, to pizza slices and credit card receipts, every item is given importance.
Don Norman studies how real people interact with design, exploring the gulf between what a designer intends and what a regular person actually wants.
Don Norman is an anthropologist of modern life, studying the way we humans interact with our designed world. Though he has a slight reputation as a grumpy critic, his work is generous and insightful he wants nothing less than to close the gap between products and their users. If you’ve ever fought with an automatic faucet in an airport bathroom, or wondered which button to press in the anonymous row on top of your printer, it’s good to know that Norman is in your corner. He’s the author of a raft of books on design and the way we humans interact with it, including the classic “Design of Everyday Things.” His next book, says his website, will be about sociable design.
Robert L. Peters is active internationally as a designer, strategic consultant, policy advisor, juror, guest lecturer, and author. He is the principal of CIRCLE, an award-winning communication design consultancy based in Winnipeg, Canada that he founded in 1976. He is a former president of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda), a foreign feature correspondent for Communication Arts magazine magazine, a Fellow of the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC), and author of the book ‘Worldwide Identity’ published by Rockport.
For the past 25 years Robert has lived in a low-energy passive solar house that he designed and built in the woods of eastern Manitoba. When not immersed in design, he enjoys nature, rock-climbing, mountaineering, and other human-powered outdoor activities.
With a career spanning 35 years so far, Paula Scher continues to set standards in graphic design with bold imagery and a highly illustrative approach to typography (she’s done album covers, books, the Citibank logo …). If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the body of work will. Scher’s massively influential designs have appeared on album covers, advertisements, gallery walls and on the outside of huge buildings – even the side of a public toilet in Madison Square Park. A hands-on approach is in her nature and is reflected in her personal artwork.
This person is a genius, his speach at Offf blew out my mind, I find his approach brilliantly simple and human and I definitely admire the guileless with which he touches some of the dogmas of humanity (such as money won’t make me happy)
This September Sagmeister Inc. participated in Droog Event 2: Urban Play. A public art installation consistinh of 250.000 eurocents placed on the floor, covering more than 300sqm on a square in Amsterdam. The coins spelled out “Obsessions make my life worse and my work better”. The piece is part of the series “Things I have learned in my life so far” the newest book by Stefan Sagmeister.
About the sentence is - Stefan Sagmeister’s own words:
“I rarely obsess about things in my private life. I fail to care about the right shade of green for the couch, the sexual secrets of an ex-lover or the correct temperature of the meeting room AC. I don’t think I miss much.
However, I do obsess over our work and think that a number of our better projects came out of such an obsession. Doodling obsessively onto a poster depicting a headless chicken and an obsession with white angry monkeys that ultimately led to the giant inflatable animals all over Scotland are just two such examples.
From Bernd and Hilda Becher’s obsessive need to record every water tower to On Kawara’s date paintings and James Turrell’s Roden Crater, obsessions seem to be an important ingredient in the work of many of our favorite contemporary artists. Obsessions make my Life worse and my Work better.* *”Think dangerously, act safely” is a close relative – possibly its uncle -from my mentor Tibor Kalman. - Stefan Sagmeister
The design is created using four different shades of pennies. Sorted by color, then laid out on tiles.Set it and forget it! Check out links below to see what happened. Very Cool.
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