STICCY©© was born in the summer of 2018 as an homage to the visual influences from my youth. I set up a shop filled with sets of limited edition stickers based on cartoon, video game and pop culture characters and tropes from the 80s and 90s.
The branding draws from familiar nostalgic graphic styles and remixes them into something that feels fresh and new. This became the sensibility for everything under the STICCY©© umbrella — channeling my inner eight-year-old-self’s jerky, immature sense of humor to create art and design that he would love.
With no clients, no deadlines and no KPI, I wanted to create something that was just pure fun for a change, while flexing and testing my graphic design, illustration and animation skills.
Each sticker is individually numbered as part of limited runs of 50 each.
These mashups from the RACE WARS series take similarly colored cartoon and video game characters and combine them together to create panicky, misshapen freaks. Try to guess ‘em all!
Some more designs based on that ‘s thing’ that everyone drew in high school around the world.
Mmm hologrammy…
The full sticker collection.
Butterfaces - Series 7, Sticker 1, ltd. ed. of 50
2 WEEKS! 2 WEEEEEEKS!!
STICCY©© is an ongoing project - the newest series mashes up video game consoles and cars from the same era.
STICCY©© merch
The next phase of STICCY©© will be focused on games… specifically playing cards to start. These hexagonal cards can be used to play a 3-dimensional domino/UNO kind of game, or be used as a standard deck of cards.
To test the gameplay and handfeel™ of the cards, I created a prototype of the first deck I designed. The cards are illustrated to look like shipping boxes, to vibe with the stacking nature of the game.
Like a standard deck of cards, there are four suits, each represented by a different shipping brand.
An example of the gameplay - each player takes turns stacking matching boxes onto the tower until they are out of cards. The boxes are placed based on how they match up - same suit stacks on top, same number sticks on the side, and same face cards sit on… the face.