name

Tanja Beate Heuser (viewnicethings)

country

germany

university

Hochschule Darmstadt/Fachbereich Gestaltung

department

Communication Design

university address

Olbrichweg 10
64287 Darmstadt

university country

germany

url

http://www.fbg.h-da.de

id

0000146

title

EIGENTLICH SAMMLE ICH NICHTS (USUALLY I DON`T COLLECT THINGS)

professor(s)

Kris Scholz

rank

-

tags

photography editorial design book

year of making

2008

uploaded

2009-01-28 14:01:02

Why do some people collect things and some not?

Mostly collectors collect things in privat surroundings. they use cartonages to store their things & special rooms. Some of the visited collections were only shown on special events to very special people. For new objects this collectors hunt the street, fleemarkets and the internet.

My ambition is to give some views in these normally closed and private rooms. The portraits & interviews of 9 collectors give an invitation to these private worlds.

I chose this diploma-thesis because of my personal interests in collecting things. My book archive with pieces from architecture, design, graphic & photography grows and grows every month. Especially the way books smell when they are new is very tasty for me. I think every collector has special preferences in the way they search for things.

Diploma in winter semester 2007/2008, 96 pages, 21,50x28,5 cm, 60´s-blue cloth-hardcover, thread-attached binding