We fear we might get lost in Kate Bingaman-Burt’s illustrations. Full of details and messy in their compositions, her creations have a creative spark to them.
“Illustration is at the core of what I do, but my projects take on many forms including publications, prints, textiles, patterns, installations, murals, and ongoing photo documentation and crowd-sourced illustration projects,” she shared with Grain Edit.
“My grandparents were illustrators and my parents were weavers, but I wanted to be a journalist. It wasn’t until I made my first zine in college that I realized that I also wanted to do design as well. I blame photocopiers, Art Chantry, Plazm magazine and a totally amazing graphic design professor (Marcus Melton) that made me fall in love with design. Illustration is a TOTALLY different story since I actually HATED drawing for years. I hated it so much that I started a project where I tasked myself with drawing all of my credit card statements until they were paid off.”
“I picked drawing because I saw it as a form of punishment, but I fooled myself because several months into the project I started falling in love with making marks, drawing type and just the process of slowing down. That project leads to my “daily purchase drawing project” where I drew something I purchased every day for 8 years. That project leads me to establish my own illustration practice for other good people and companies.”
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