Now I have never seen, in my days of looking, a better description of what it is like to be a modern obsessive design…well…junkie. This person right here, Gabriel Baldessin sums it up as he describes his design collection: “Proof of a constant oscillation between accumulating objects (notably printed matter), and the desire to own the absolute minimum.” What a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to collect ephemera. I feel this, and so should you. You collector of cargo. Below you will see the evidence designer/photographer Gabriel Baldessin describes. Lovely things.

From the post card to the book collected for a single spread to a computer-read test sheet to a person-form target for gun practice, these are the makings of an essential collection. Incidentally I’d call this a studio collection, as many of these would be best kept hung on the walls of the workers workplace. Very fun, very inspiring.

And I would like to at this time encourage you to go see the works of Gabriel Baldessin as they are lovely, well thought out, and nicely organized: http://gabriel.baldessin.fr/

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies collection category.