Kate Bingaman-Burt’s artful new mini-ledger, invites readers to
answer that question every day, promoting frugality. Kate
Bingaman-Burt is an illustrator and educator. She has been making
work about consumption since 2002. Her first book, ObsessiveConsumption, was published, by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010.
The new pubblication What did I buy today. Obsessive consumption
introduces new charts, graphs and illustrations of items worth saving
for.
“Obsessive Consumption is repulsed and grossly fascinated by the
branding of consumer culture,” her site explains. “It wants to
eat the entire bag of candy and enjoy the sickness that it feels an
hour later. It doesn’t want to be an outside critical observer. It
wants to be an active participant.” Her hope, she says, is to
engage an audience on a more conceptual level, inviting them to think
about consumption and obsession.
Bingaman-Burt has famously hand-drawn her daily purchases for years.
The daily drawings were born out from drawing her credit card
statements in 2004. Today she is in the seventh year of that. Soon
she started collecting those images on a Web site. And this turned
out to be the first iteration of something that continues to this
day: “I basically built a brand out of Obsessive Consumption,”
she says, “and ran with it.” It behooves us all to monitor our
spending.
She started drawing something that she had purchased each day on
February 5th, 2006, and of course she still drawing, "until the
hand cramps!".
Kate Bingaman-Burt is an assistant professor of graphic design at
Portland State University. She is a founding partner of the Public
Design Center. Her work has been featured in the New York Times; in
numerous magazines, including Print, Adorn, Dwell, and How; and in
books including Hand Job and Handmade Nation.
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