Stickerama

So the sticker project went over pretty well. I really enjoyed this project. We started off making a collage of our path through the city, and ideas relating to this. In my collage I incorporated ideas from Natalie Jeremijenko's "Ooz" project where she studied the habits of birds, and illustrated their path through the urban environment. I also used Google Maps to diagram my exact path through the city. After this process, we each made a sticker design and printed copies of it. For my sticker I chose to depict a character that I have been developing, Baby Stanley. This character uncontrollably transforms into a baby devil when he soils his diaper. I figured that it would be an interesting idea if I were to create a sticker for both Stanley and his devilish alter ego. When I put these stickers up around the city, both stickers were present in each location. I felt that it created an interesting spin on the assignment, because when you found one sticker you knew there was another one in the same vicinity.

I found it very interesting when I noticed other peoples stickers throughout the city. It was a very fun interaction staking out other peoples paths. I really liked Paula's stickers. I thought it was very clever how her stickers reflected the surface that they were on. I took some pictures of a bunch of stickers, but I could not send them from my phone to my email for some reason, so no pictures on the blog. O well.

Also, I was happy to hear that my stickers were being noticed around the city. One of my friends actually recognized my character and began to spot them out around the area. Also, one of my professors from another class, who was familiar with Baby Stanley, told me that he saw my sticker in the subway! I was very surprised that people actually noticed them! I really liked this little assignment. Now every day during my commute, I get to look for my stickers around the city. It turned my commute into game!