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In her Drop Dead Gorgeous series, artist Daniela Edburg makes kitsch photographs of women murdered or about to be killed by consumer goods. The women are obsessed with these products, and their over-indulgence leads or will lead to their untimely deaths.

Asked why she consumer goods had a sinister effect on the women in her photographs, Edburg says:

I guess I am pretty compulsive. That which gives me pleasure one minute, causes guilt the next. I am surprised at how much I like the products I consume, but, if you stop for one second to think about it, it’s absurd. Yet, you can’t stop. [The work] is not a criticism it’s just an exaggeration of my own reality.

Read the interview with the artist at The Morning News – via Buzzfeed.

Nothing quite says Good Morning like fresh toasting flying towards your face. The Brunch is a series of hyper-precise kitchen equipment from this Dutch designer Ivo Vos that makes a statement about our society’s obsession with perfection, precision, and order.

The Bread Slicer cuts even, uniform slices of bread and the Toaster requires skill and precision to shoot your toast across the kitchen.

A well known theory in psychology states that neurosis are a result of the lack of real dangers that result from the high level of well-being in our western society. This project explores post-functional products that address the desire for skill, struggle, rituals, perfection, preparation and anticipation – qualities lost when we indulge in the comforts of prozac technology.

More images after the jump.