Stickers Designs

STICKER DESIGNING

Mind-maps! I always like to start my design process through words and a mind map. The phrases are too long to be used as catch phrases but it was a way of quickly exploring multiple different ideas. I made this by starting some branches and then as ideas popped in my head throughout the day I would come back and add to the mind-map.

As I have been through a rough few weeks I have really noticed the small acts of kindness. In fact this morning I wrote a letter of appreciation to my flat, including thanking people for making me a cup of tea every now and then because it did make a difference. I therefore thought that this would be a perfect image to explore. I tried to design the backgrounds so that they reflected a kitchen for example tiles. I felt that these ideas were very twee and not something I would be happy./proud of as a sticker.

I then moved onto treating yourself off my mind-map. That looking after yourself is an act of kindness. These are all acts of kindness that girls do to make themselves feel good (which I have practiced in these horrible past weeks). I quite like the bath one because the bath is very simple but the bubbles fill up the background as a pattern. I also quite like the feet one and that the writing fits with the image as if it is the nail varnish. I really hate feet though and drawing them made me notice even more how weird they are. However these are all very girly ideas and I don't really want to create a sticker that is so specific and cliche.

I forgot how important inspiration is when designing. I went through my 'Urban Art' book thinking that this links with communicating a simple message visually. I came across this face and just thought YES. I looked at it for a while and then went to make a cup of tea and drew it. This was I thought it would definitely be inspiration rather than copying but I can see that there are some similar features.

I came up with this idea because my friend came round and was really down and I felt like I should make her happier by being doubly happy, therefore radiating happiness and it works and I felt that this is an act of kindness. If you are a very externally happy person it will rub off on others because there are so many positive vibes. I also like this character because it is quite abstract for me and definitely made up with shapes and looking at it just makes me happy because it is sooo funky and weird.

I thought that to make something meaningful I should think broader, into things that really are important to more than one or two people. I looked through some political books and wracked my brains for important parts of A-level History, German and Politics. I am aware from doing work for Leicester University that to put an image out now a days that has men and women holding hands it needs to be representative of LGBT as well as heterosexual people.

I thought this was a nice simple image, using the iconic toilet people and it is definitely built up of shapes. I like the equality image because it symbolises integration and works well as a design. Also the tight grasp of the hands is very impacting. It reminds me of the front cover of noughts and crosses a bit and the use of inverting.

I think I like the share the wealth the most. It is supposed to be the falling of coins into a homeless persons hand or someone begging. I thought I would carry out this act of kindness and I collected at 58p's worth of my bronze coins and have given them out to homeless people in Leeds.