This past fall I headed to New York City to see an artist talk with Kate Bingaman-Burt and Mike Perry at the Jen Bekman Gallery. I had arranged to spend some time with them and filmed our conversation.

Michael Perry runs a small design studio in Brooklyn, New York. Working with clients like MTV, Brooklyn Industries, Dwell Magazine, New York Times Magazine and so many more. Perry just finished his first book titled “Hand Job” published by Princeton Architectural Press. Doodling away night and day, Perry creates new typefaces and sundry graphics that inevitably evolve into his new work, exercising the great belief that the generating of piles is the sincerest form of creative process. He has shown his work around the world, from the booming metropolis of London to Minneapolis to the homegrown expanses of Kansas.

Kate Bingaman-Burt started Obsessive Consumption in 2002 when she decided to photograph all of her purchases and in turn create a brand out of the process to package and promote. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Lowdown Magazine, Money, Print, HOW Design, Craft, Adorn, GOOD, and many others. Her work is featured in the upcoming books Handjob! A Catalog of Type by Mike Perry and Becoming a Digital Designer by Steven Heller and David Womack. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004 and is an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State University.

It was great to finally get to meet them. Both Kate and Mike have contributed work to my book, Grab Bag Book (HOW Books). Thanks to both of them for the time they spent talking with me and their inspiration.