Ceramics

Materialistic Mugs

Porcelain

3’’ x 4.5’’ 

2022

Materialistic Mugs is a project centered around criticizing the overproduction of consumer objects and lack of intent behind these materials. These items lack the human touch that handmade ceramics are known for. Middle-aged women fight each other in department stores to acquire these objects. Mass produced objects are quickly making their way into landfills because they do not hold up against handmade items. Lorem Ipsum is a typeface that is used specifically in graphic design as placeholder text for layout configuration. The fact that the phrase is a jumble of latin words reveals how companies just slap words onto mugs and sell millions of these pointless objects. The style of the lettering is inspired by the 2007 pbs show “Word World”. In this show every character and object is shaped from the word that they are. These mugs were made from slip-casted porcelain in a plaster mold.