How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me

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How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me

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Published in 2003 and available free online, Andrew Coulter Enright shares an ironic, but aesthetically pleasing guide to being an artist/writer/thinker (read as hyper-cool, while being totally uncool) in Brooklyn. Want to know all of the tricks to looking hip, but not played out? This is your bible. The graphic design is amazing (including the choice of the brown inked ty...more Published in 2003 and available free online, Andrew Coulter Enright shares an ironic, but aesthetically pleasing guide to being an artist/writer/thinker (read as hyper-cool, while being totally uncool) in Brooklyn. Want to know all of the tricks to looking hip, but not played out? This is your bible. The graphic design is amazing (including the choice of the brown inked typeface).

If you read this book, you are sure to recognize parts of yourself in its pages. It is sometimes laughably unclear whether you should feel honored or slightly embarrassed at this recognition of self amid the trends. This will continue to be an lasting record of the twenty-something creative scene pre-recession and post 9/11.

From a TIME Magazine article published 9.9.2003:
Andrew Coulter Enright, 24, whose book, How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me, captured the ethos of this generation as it exists in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y. "You're talking about people who have creative pastimes or careers and are interested in fusing lots of different parts of culture together. The Creative Underground doesn't have the catch to it, but it's a little more accurate."

From a NYTimes article published 2.15.2004:
'How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me,'' an irony-rich collection of Jenny Holzer-like epigrams for the style-obsessed that include, ''Eat Edamame'' and ''Wake up on a stranger's couch. Later, realize it was an Eames original.''

The Tyntpress, publisher of ''How to be Fashionable,'' has a manifesto on its Web site that proclaims its intention to make books by young artists that express ''our view of popular culture,'' ''free of the preciousness that attaches itself to projects like Visionaire,'' without ''creating fussy little books,'' in a ''punk-rock ethos.''

The bound book, the company's first effort, is a limited edition that is already sold out, but you can print it from the company's Web site, which is certainly nice and punk rock-y, though the fact that ''How to Be Fashionable or Consume Like Me'' has a corporate sponsor, the boutique Thompson Hotels group, is not.(less)

Unknown Binding, 54 pages

Published 2003 by The Tynt Press

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