Sticker art

Sticker art (Sometimes Known As Slap Tagging) is a form of street art in which the message is conveyed by stickers. Sticker art is most noticeable in well-trafficked urban areas. Stickers may promote a political agenda (such as the anti-war and anti-George W. Bush stickers below), comment on a policy or issue (such as the MIT sticker below), or comprise an avantgarde art campaign (see This Is A Heavy Product, Obey Giant and Unamerican.com). Sticker art has been created by pop.ac (formerly known as Art Collart), a Hamburg artist, in 1987.

Sticker art is popular with teenagers, due mostly to ready availability of supplies. Sometimes, unintentional sticker art can occur, with unconventional discards of free stickers, for example free stickers from voting booths, retail stickers, United States Postal Service labels, and stickers acquired from school drug-awareness programs. Free blank or mostly blank stickers can create intentional sticker art, artists can draw, paint, stencil or write whatever they want on their stickers. Popular blank stickers are USPS and DHL lables and 'hello my name is' name tags.

Sticker art is considered a subcategory of postmodern art.

Gallery

• GNAR! Protest sticker on the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. Image: U.S. President George W. Bush. Text: "Elect a madman / you get madness."
  GNAR! Protest sticker on the Manhattan Bridge in New York City. Image: U.S. President George W. Bush. Text: "Elect a madman / you get madness."
• Anti-war sticker in Paris, France.
  Anti-war sticker in Paris, France.
• Satirical sticker protest candidate to mayor in Cuiaba, Brazil. Text: "Eu como cocô" ("I eat shit").
  Satirical sticker protest candidate to mayor in Cuiaba, Brazil. Text: "Eu como cocô" ("I eat shit").
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  Satirical protest sticker on a keycard reader at MIT. Text: "All activity monitored for your protection. MIT Card Office. A division of the Department of Homeland Security."
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  Sticker art in a traffic light in Antwerp, Belgium.
• in a trash can in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal
  in a trash can in the streets of Lisbon, Portugal

See also

• culture jamming
• street art
• graffiti

External links

• ((Sticker Traders)) Trade Sticker Art with others from around the world
• BLDD collects information concerning contemporary art, street art, urban art as you wish.Updated weekly
• bomit.com, street art sticker portal offering free stickers to visitors. (out of order)
• Chicago Street Art on Flickr, discussion board and photo pool from one of the world's hardest cities to do traditional forms of graffiti.
• Godisart.com - a repository of GNAR!info on graffiti & street art (including many sticker related articles)
• Iranian Stencil and Graffiti movement Today
• pop.ac - (a.k.a. Art Collart), art with stickers - since 1987, let's stick together - sticker happenings, divine sticker art - connects you with god.
• StreetMemes.com - a collection of memes
• urbanize.org, examples of sticker and other graffiti art.
• International Sticker Award