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my life's logos v.2
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More logos, this time approximately 275 give or take 10. I also put a Waldo from Where's Waldo? in this collage. I also accidentally put 2 Mack truck logos, find em both. lol Try finding him 
Rated PG-13 lol Feel free to add sarcastic notes to logos you know lol.
mum's fruitbowl manifesto:KISS
Image by eyewash
photographer: a. golden, eyewash design: 01 Mar. 09, NYC
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When I was small, a very, very LONG time ago, my Mum had these hanging wire baskets in our kitchen. She hung them right over the sink & I remember thinking they were the coolest concept ever. I believe I might have been about four & whilst most children my age were playing with dolls, I was contemplating how those baskets were made.
FAST FORWARD TO ADULTHOOD--->
When I moved back to the U.S., I came with two suitcases. I'd left behind not only a career, a partner & his dear children, but a beautiful place in Sydney that I'd worked years making into a home. So, here I was in NYC, starting all over again - for the tenth time in nearly as many years.
Starting from scratch is never easy, but it doesn't have to be complicated either. I think it's just human nature to make simple things complicated. Sure, it's akin to a death/rebirth & can be an extremely humbling, yet also an empowering experience. Anyone whose ever had to do so can attest to this fact.
So, on one of my first thrift store excursions - on the LES - I stumbled across...you guessed it, my Mum's 1970's vintage wire baskets! Logic will tell you they weren't actually my Mum's, but I took it as a sign anyway. After all, what good is logic in a life of illogical sequence? I'd spent months contemplating on just how I'd arrived @ this juncture in my life and when I spotted the lovingly worn baskets, suddenly everything became clear!
I was EXACTLY where I was supposed to be. And, even though I didn't have an apartment to hang them in, I purchased the baskets (.50cents). Call me nostalgic. Call me hopeful. In the time since, they've hung in the kitchen of my very first NYC apartment & now hang in my loft.
Like me, they've taken a beating. The chains broke so many times, I had to rig them with galvanised wire & loose-leaf paper rings, but they've stood the true designer's test of time. As much as I'm around & source fancy wares, new gadgets & expensive products, one might think these cheap baskets would pale, in comparison. Instead, they remain one of my most favourite utilitarian kitchen items (they hold a lot of heavy stuff).
To me, they're more than Chinatown baskets, for they remind me of a more simple time and place. More importantly, they serve as a reminder that good design is simple & pure & that it doesn't have to be fancy & expensive to be good. It's like Dwell magazine's fruit bowl manifesto, in visual representation, except in triplicate & in hangable form.
Thanks Mum, for constantly helping me to remember the KISS theory - each and every time I re-enter my space after a harried day in a very complicated place. Happy 2008!
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