Evan Collins

Why Donate? 
 Supporting CARI   We've been developing many aesthetic channels since 2014, like Frasurbane, Global Village Coffeehouse, Y2K, CGXC, Frutiger Aero, etc. The forgotten nature of these eras means it takes time to discover the really great examples! By donating, you help us with these goals: <ul><li>Supporting the time it takes to search through old archived sites, Google Books scans of magazines/books, Discogs, etc., and clean up the images. </li><li>Buying more physical content, like books, magazines, and posters to scan and share with you guys! (I've got an Amazon wish list 150 books long, in addition to the various thrift/used book stores I make weekly visits to) </li><li>Potentially starting an account with pay sites that grant access to huge archives of advertising materials. (Coloribus, Advertolog)</li><li>Getting in touch with designers and companies from the 1980s-onward, in order to get content that may have either never been uploaded online, or lost/corrupted over time. </li></ul>In short, becoming a patron helps to both keep up the constant flow of great content, and allows us to purchase/access media that we otherwise wouldn't be able to afford.  You can follow our research work on the following pages: My Personal Are.na page: <a href="https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491">Evan's Are.na</a><a href="https://www.are.na/evan-collins-1522646491"> </a>Our collective CARI page: <a href="https://www.are.na/consumer-aesthetics-research-institute">CARI Are.na</a> My Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/EvanCollins90">Evan's Twitter</a> The Y2K Aesthetic Institute Twitter (run by me &amp; Froyo Tam): <a href="https://twitter.com/y2k_aesthetic">Y2K Twitter </a>My Tumblr: <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/newwavearch90">Evan's Tumblr</a> The Y2K Aesthetic Institute Tumblr: <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/blog/y2kaestheticinstitute">Y2K Aesthetic Institute Tumblr</a> <img src="https://i.imgur.com/ayc7amV.jpg"> <a href="http://y2kaestheticinstitute.tumblr.com/" rel="nofollow"></a>

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Since CARI research has become my main work &amp; passion, supporting with $1 per month helps to keep the content coming! For example, a book on Amazon that I will be able to purchase, scan, and share on our various platforms. This support helps me afford monthly &amp; annual subscriptions to various online media archives (eg. Communication Arts, Architectural Digest), and cleanup tools like Photoshop. The Discord is currently closed while we work on updating &amp; improving our structure/format &amp; research submission process, but we hope to open it back up for new members soon. 

Supporting Our Research

Access to an online repository of the high-resolution scans, images, and media I've collected as a part of our CARI research. I have around 1,200+ physical books &amp; magazines, plus quite a few more digital scanned versions on my computer, sourced from various libraries. Currently the online archive has around 700+ books and magazines, and I'll be consistently uploading more each month. Your support helps me purchase books &amp; media (which can get quite expensive for the rarer items) to scan &amp; share!Note: To see the newest items I've uploaded to the archive, be sure to sort by 'Last Modified'

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