Download, Peel and Stick

Inspired by graffiti, posters and the Web culture, stickers are now recognized as an artistic phenomenon. Hand-drawn, stenciled or screen-printed, the images are ready to be downloaded on the Internet, then printed and pasted, so that a sticker can be created Monday morning in New York, e-mailed to a stranger in Paris and affixed to the back of a trash receptacle on the Champs-Élysées in the early afternoon.

stikky.gifColby Woodland describes stickering as a form of “visual narcotics.” But whereas “the media’s bombardment of images is intended to make you feel and act a certain way,” he said, “stickering can confront the viewer in situations when they least expect it.”

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From The New York Times.
Stickers at Urban medium, Bomit, Streetstickers, Kanardo, etc. Wooster Collective about street art.

Worth a look is the “Street meme” online gallery, by Eyebeam R&D project, which monitors the spread of memetic street art. The street memes are stickers, posters, stencils, or any other public medium that can be copied repeatedly, and spread around the world.

And if you want some for your home, Blik provides a line of self-adhesive and easily removable surface graphics for walls for people who like to change their mind.
You can stick them on windows, ceilings, floors, tables – any flat surface can be ‘blikked’.

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Via DesignMatcher.