@katiedaileader /
katiedaileaderdesign.com
Going Analog: Cattelan Style, 2025. Digital photo, 1108 x 1414 px.
Self-Sufficiency, Spite, and (Sustainability) is a collection of essays,
experiments, and interviews about current issues in graphic, fashion,
furniture, and architectural design. My thesis is not meant to find
solutions to these problems, but rather to better understand them
through extensive research so that I may further cultivate my design
practice and artistic mission.
My main goals are:
1. To learn more about the consumption-based urges that constantly
make me feel like I’m chasing something unattainable. I want to
understand the things that cause me anxiety: clutter, how others
perceive me (particularly on social media), and my desire for things
like furniture, new clothes, abs, and money. As a result, I hope to learn
how to organize and control these desires.
2. To discover ideas for how systems and design can help me
understand not only how to abstain from, but also oppose consumer
culture. I hope that I can make clear the line between design and
commerce so that I may design with intention and make ethical
choices (opting out of cheap forced labor, designing for art sake rather
than commerce sake).
3. To create a physical archive of the foundations of my design practice.