Always popular CITIZEN:Citizen has just released their American Comfort Quilt by Bradley Price & Joel Yatscoff. Limited to 10, this quilt includes 58 logos of mass-market retailers, food chains and other corporations.
Always popular CITIZEN:Citizen has just released their American Comfort Quilt by Bradley Price & Joel Yatscoff. Limited to 10, this quilt includes 58 logos of mass-market retailers, food chains and other corporations.
Made from cotton and polyester, the American Comfort Quilt is $4,900 and is available on CITIZEN:Citizen's website.
Horrible and tacky. Why?
view ElleBee's profile
Why would I want this in my house?
view SFGail's profile
I hate to sound rude, but this has a bit of an Urban Outfitters quality to it, with a couture pricetag.
view visualingual's profile
Hooray, a home accessory inspired by crass consumerism!
view ehat's profile
The pricetag adds insult to injury.
view arcticlapland's profile
Wasn't April Fool's day a few weeks ago?
view twenty twenty-one's profile
this would be a better design for toilet paper. one color job though.
view shoepins's profile
I like how they limited it to 10 as if to make it super exclusive. Rather, they're not sure they could sell more (if that at all)
view ridge.'s profile
Genious! I'd love to give that to some of my relatives to wrap their newborns up in. Isn't anyone getting the irony?
view createanddestroy's profile
Ugh, the Adbuster in me is screaming inside
view aladywhoknows's profile
to each their own, but irony isnt worth 4,900 to me.
view bethanylemony's profile
As a Canadian, I got a kick out of seeing the Timmies logo on there, but other than that it's actually kind of disgusting.
view aladywhoknows's profile
Why is the Betty Crocker spoon white?
view ridge.'s profile
How awful looking. Aren't we supposed to showing small living spaces?
view Wolf Scion's profile
www.stitchT.com created a quilt like this years ago, see the quilt on the left @
http://stitcht.com/tshirtquilt3.htm
If anyone is actually interested in a quilt like this, we can make one for less than 10% of what CITIZEN is charging. Otherwise, we can help you free up some drawer/closet space and turn your shirts into a quilt.
Best,
the stitch'T team
info@stitcht.com
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I think everyone is missing the point - it's supposed to be a comment on consumption and it's supposed to be tacky. It costs $5000 because it's a handmade piece of art instead of it being made by factory workers in China like the products represented on it. It's also an interesting snapshot of graphic design today.
view Nerdalie's profile
I don't think the criticism stems from the fact that people don't get the concept, I think it's more that people don't like the concept. If it's meant to be conceptual art, put it in the Whitney and don't ask the (supposedly) already victimized consumers to pay $5000 for a rather shallow joke.
And IMO it's hideous.
view amed studio's profile
I feel anxious just looking at that thing.
view anna karina's profile
Apple logo is outdated, so no.
view Djluckyonline's profile
I can't think of many things I'd want less.
view hrhprincessfiona's profile
This concept was done in the 60s. It's no longer ironic, it's just ugly. (I almost overlooked the ugliness because I'm so perplexed as to why they included Tim Horton's on their "American" quilt.)
view farmhousemoderne's profile
The really funny thing is I went to High School with one of the designers (Joel Yatscoff) in Alberta and he's CANADIAN.
view Dominique's profile
Dominique, so is Adbusters, isn't it?
view visualingual's profile
It's.... different. My quirky side kind of likes it because it's irony, but the consumerism driven side of me hates it for the same reason.
Seriously. Never understood brand names on clothes, why would I want them on my bedding?
view Melissa82's profile
offensive to quilters everywhere
view LaDonnaNichole's profile
Hilarious--the ultimate comment on 'brand loyalty' that seems to define Americans, no matter what information about nutritional content, corporate practices, foreign ownership, dangerous ingredients, etc. shows up in their morning newspaper.
would I want it on my bed? of course not--but then, I can't afford anything for $5,000, so it's not really a consideration, even it it were vintage Eames.
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