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Burger Boyz Sticker Giveaway

Our old friend, the illustrious pencil wielding Travis Millard and his masterclass creative collaborator Jay Howell just released a new split fountain “Burger Boyz” screen print. Sometimes Travis and Jay eat burgers together and draw on napkins. Their new print is the culmination of such creative dining excursions. Along with said screen print, we silkscreened some delectable clear vinyl stickers to accompany their poster release. And we’re giving away all the extras we managed to get our hands on. Details after the jump. clear_vinyl_stickers

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‘Famous Interview Questions’ with UK Artist & Philosopher, Godmachine

Hello. My name is ZombieYeti and I was tasked with coming up with a new and exciting blog series for Stickerobot.com. As many of you know (hi mom!), I’m probably better served drawing things than communicating with word sentences. So with that in mind, I came up with a great unoriginal idea that I could use to reach out to artists that I love and respect – Artist interviews!

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Home-run, right? But then I realized I’d need to come up with questions, and upon attempting this, I found that I could only come up with questions I’d heard in previous interviews… and THAT’S when it hit me!

I’d make other more qualified interviewers do my work! So…. I scoured the inter-web for famous (and questionably famous) interviews from the past 100 years and I took questions from these interviews and created a randomly generated list that I then sent out to various artists that may or may not return my emails!

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The “Offensive” Stickers that got us Suspended from Facebook..

Warning: If you are easily offended by a clown with semi-exposed nipples and beautifully composed oil paintings of scantily-clad blue aliens by world famous artists, stop reading now. If neither of these topics are cause for your moral concern… Please, read on.

Currently France is involved in an online censorship lawsuit with Facebook, involving a 149-year-old painting of a vagina by Gustave Courbet, a School Teacher’s subsequent suspension from Facebook, and a Social Media Empire that can not distinguish Pornography from Art.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, a sticker image that we posted to our Facebook page resulted in a similar suspension.

Granted, a priceless century-and-a-half old painting vs. a custom sticker for a local T-shirt company might not fit into the same argument, but none the less, here’s a short story about sticker printing, sharing photos of clown nipples & social media censorship..

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Exhibit A. The Offending Adhesive Contraband.

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Attention Bloggers, Vloggers & Sticker Aficionados!

As you all may know, Sticker Robot Stickers are, quite literally, the highest quality stickers on the planet. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise to know that we take our sticker quality very seriously and always strive for self-imposed sticker printing excellence.

Periodically, we even enlist the help of third parties to make sure that we’re not blinded by our own sticker pride.

This year, we’d like to get the help of some of our customers & fans. We’re putting the call out to our blogger and vlogger friends, throughout the planet, to help us keep our sticker quality amazing.

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If you are interested in receiving a free sticker pack in exchange for providing feedback on the quality of our stickers in the form of a review or an interview on your blog/channel, please get in touch with our resident robot QA Dave.

Please send an email with your name, your blog or channel website address to [email protected] and Dave will pick a set of submissions that accurately represent our legion to send out a worthy sample sticker pack for you to enjoy, stick and marvel at the glory of our world famous silkscreen stickers.

What’s more, the chosen ones will of course get to keep their stickers (as long as you send us some photos of the stickers in action) and as a special thanks, we’ll give you a 15% off voucher for a future order with us.

How’s that for quality?

10 Questions with Silkscreen Poster and Sticker Artist, Marq Spusta

On a regular basis we’ll ask a new sticker artist a series of 10 questions. To keep things simple and to engage in a deeply philosophical, long term case study of the scientifically complicated “Sticker Artist’s mind,” we’ve decided to leave the questions the same every week.

 

This week, we sat down with the highly talented California-based silkscreen artist, Marq Spusta.

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Marq makes wildly colorful and intricate screen printed gig posters and art prints. He also makes album covers, rad T-shirts, buttons, magnets and custom stickers. Most of his work is limited edition and gets snatched up in a hurry by his rabid, adoring fans..

Over the years, we have worked with Marq on a few projects, including some Primus posters, Tshirts, and of course thousands of very unique custom silkscreen stickers. So let’s get down to it… 10 Questions with Marq Spusta.

Note: We are giving away some of Marq’s brand new Sticker Packs to (3) random commenters. Simply share this post & leave a comment below to enter.

 

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10 Silkscreen Poster Artists You Should Be Following on Instagram (Part1)

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Here at Sticker Robot, we love the art of silkscreen. We love it so much that we built a business around it. Yep, Printing silkscreen stickers.

Silkscreen printing is an ancient technique, started in China thousands of years ago and we employ it everyday. The print medium takes lots of time and effort, but there’s no denying the extreme level of quality when you hold a silkscreen print (or sticker) in your hands… The thick ink, the textural feel of the material, even the smell of the print itself.

Like a fine wine or a custom cobbled pair of dancing shoes, once you’ve experienced it, it’s hard to go back to drinking ripple from a box and wearing crocs to the ballroom.

A while ago, we posted a feature on 10 Sticker Artists To Follow on Instagram. It was highly adhesive. Sometime thereafter, we made another blog post called, 10 Visual Artists You Should Be Following on Instagram which shared links to some great working artists.

This time, because of our affinity for the craft, we’re putting together a list (in no particular order) of 10 Silkscreen Poster Artists You Should Be Following on Instagram.

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Wacom Cintiq Companion 2: A Casual Review By A Graphic Artist

So, you read the title and have obviously clicked to read my inner most thoughts on the Wacom (pronounced: “W”- “æ/ə/eɪ/o/” -“com”)* Cintiq Companion 2.
Either that, or my racy meta tags tricked your favorite search engine into a stop off in Dissapointmentville®. Either way, here we are. So let’s talk about the new portable Wacom Cintiq Companion 2. 

First, Some Confessions…


Confession I: I love technology. Even the questionable stuff.
Confession II: I am platform agnostic. I don’t dismiss options based on personal preferences.
Confession III: As a result, I don’t think Microsoft is the pc devil.
Confession IV: I once stole a caramel from the supermarket and lived with that guilt for years.


I make those confessions so you know that as a designer, I’m not laying naked with my Apple products while thumbing my nose at the perceived ‘corporate greed/band-wagon-hate-train’ of Microsoft. (The irony being quite palpable in the era of iterative iDevices, not withstanding.)

And my last preface, is that if you really wished this product was BOTH cheaper and ran Yosemite, you might want to think long and hard about what you just said before that premium-priced-paradox creates a rift in the space/time continuum worthy of causing the Enterprise-D to encounter the long missing USS Enterprise-C!**

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Working on the Companion 2 with any Bluetooth keyboard isn’t necessary thanks to the Express Key’s and ability to create On Screen hotkeys. Unfortunately, old habits die hard so i still have a keyboard around for now…

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You Need a Day of the Dead Jack Calavera Sticker, Don’t you?

It should come as no surprise by now that we are huge fans of Jose Pulido and his calavera series of pop culture characters. And we must confess that we are also huge fans of how he’s using kickstarter for good instead of evil!

I mean, at this point we should really just hand him the keys to the blog and let him post these himself. But, as professional sticker blogmen*, we really can’t do that because all of our passwords are saved in our browsers and we can’t really remember them, soooo…

You Need a Day of the Dead Jack Calavera Sticker, Don’t you?

This time Jose has crafted a beloved holiday favorite in Day of the Dead Jack Calavera.

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Digital Sticker Drawing. A Timelapse Process Video.

Here’s a look at the talented illustrator, Zombie Yeti’s digital drawing process for some self-GMO-labeling stickers that we recently produced.

These custom stickers were designed with the intention that, since the US government refuses to label GMO food, we can simply do it ourselves. We gave them away for free on our blog until we ran out and we wanted to show you Zombie Yeti’s creative process on his rad sticker design. Read More

Want Some Homer Simpson Calavera Stickers ?

Sharing is caring, kids, and because we care so damn much, we had to share the latest Jose Pulido Calavera sticker campaign… Oh, and tell you how you can help him get his new stickers printed and be handsomely rewarded! The latest welcome victim to Jose’s “Dia De Los Muertos” Sticker Arsenal is Homer Calavera, appropriately 1 part sugar and 1 part skull. 1 part duff beer and one part donut. custom day of the dead stickers Read More
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