Web Stickers

[DudeAsInCool]

Inspired by graffiti, posters and the communal culture of the Web, stickers are gaining wide attention as an artistic phenomenon, academics and practitioners say. Hand-drawn, stenciled or screen-printed, the images float on the Internet, available for downloading, printing and pasting in ways that the creators could only have imagined. And as they make their way around the globe, from one e-mail in-box to the next, one cultural context to another, their meaning tends to morph.

Now that broadband users can send large graphics files in an instant, stickers are a very fast-moving medium. 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.

"It works particularly well in walking cities," said Alice Twemlow, who organizes shows about visual culture as program director at the American Institute of Graphic Arts. "Walking brings intimate encounters with the stickers that could not be experienced while driving. There is also an immediacy with which people can respond."

You can read about this new trend here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/26/arts/design/26STOR.html

[Umma]

maybe we need a BK one to stick on bins on the Champs-Élysées

[DudeAsInCool]

An excellent idea... Your radio thingy would be good too

[Umma]

you want to stick my radio in the bin

[DudeAsInCool]

you want to stick my radio in the bin

Nah..I want to play with it

[slum_goddess]

what new trend? i've been collecting stickers for years.

[method77]

web stickers