Tuesday, 4 May 2010

Consumersim-How brands define us through shopping trends

I did a questionaire on a bunch of random people asking them what do they put in their trolleys on a weekly basis,

and it turns out that everyone of them puts the ame items in their basket each week and it doesn't change. this made me think about people's habits that they don't like to break but also about advertising and packaging and what sells and what doesn't sell.

consumerism also made me think about a process that we seem to be trap in of buying, consuming, throwing away and then all over again.

also the supermarkets we go to are no longer independent shops, they are large franchises part of an even bigger label that honours the capiatlist way.

what i need to do is look at statistics and what we really do spend most of our food money on. I'm not sure where i'm going on this one so i might continue for a bit and see if it works, if not i'll go backwards.


i also started using consumer products in my sketchbook as materials to see if i can come up with something, see the cereal materials are cut like scales as if it were the hide of an animal.
maybe look into hides and furs.

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