Kate Bingaman-Burt

I love Kate Bingaman-Burt's work for some of the same reasons I like Martha Rich. It's simple and has a sense of humor, but is also meaningful. My favorite are her daily purchase drawings-simple pen and ink drawings of items that she's purchaced that day. I think it's unintentional, but she makes a statement about American consumerism. There's something about "tracing" your purchases that holds you accontable, and makes them more real.



www.obsessiveconsumption.com
www.whatdidyoubuytoday.com
www.kateconsumption.etsy.com

Also check out the embroidery patterns from Sublime Stitching which she designed as a tie-in for the forthcoming documentary Handmade Nation.

Obssesive Consumption: Book Covers

Remember last year when I doted on Kate Bingham Burt's work? Well up 'til now her drawings were made into zines, but now it's in brand-new-book form. And it's real cool! Frank Chimero secretly organized a handful of illustrator friends to draw the cover, and gave them to her at her book release. Pretty sweet, huh?

Frank Chimero

 

Ryan Berkley

Will Bryant

Always with Honor

See all of the covers here. 

Obsessive Consumption
Kate Bingaman-Burt