Welcome to the iPigeon.institute online slight exhibition and annotations for the Sticker Time sticker collection.
The Sticker Time art miniatures are an ongoing and updating collection of images, illustrations, photographs, and digital renders of (mostly) pigeon (or “bird,” in general,) images, as well as images that have, or have become, contextually, seasonally, or otherwise, relevant, in terms of content, research, and development.
Sticker Time comes out of best practices in branding. My experience, in working with the circular form, comes mainly from an exercise I went through (which I can’t find, online, at the moment) which was hosted by Google, similar to this article; the essential concept being that some essential message of the brand could be delivered through symbolic, illustrative / graphic, or alphanumeric form. Here, with Sticker Time, the same theme as a branding logo is employed, yet the form of Sticker Time takes a more lax and lighthearted approach, given that the brand is already established (the brand has its own sticker, as well, for that matter).
Here, in this online collection, I feature the entire set of iPigeon.institute Sticker Time images, with annotations. Enjoy!
One last thing, though: a how-to for printing out the stickers, if you'd like to do so, at home.
Using a standard graphic design app will invariably cause off-center prints. The paper and interface template that I use for this project is Avery 22807.
To start, visit the avery.com website, and search for 22807, to get the 2-inch, 12 per page label template.
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| The avery.com search page, after querying 22807, in the search box. |
You can make a login for the Avery website, at this point, and you'll see a page pop up, featuring different design templates, for the round labels (stickers).
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| Here's the page you'll see, after logging in to the Avery website (you can also log in as a guest, I believe). |
Here, we're going to be using the blank round label template (the first option, at the top left). You'll see the design interface pop up,after selecting this template.
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| The Avery 22807 round 2-inch label template. |
What's great about this template is that you can standardize the entire sheet, based off of one single design input - or, there's also an option for inputting a different design on each numbered sticker. Just select "Add objects" at the bottom of the page, and center each sticker around the edges of the circular template. You'll want to perhaps have some bleed, surrounding the template's edges, in order to ensure that the eventual printed sticker does not come out smaller than the actual paper cut size.
Once the template page is finished, you can export the the project to a photo or pdf file, and, if you don't have a printer, like myself at the moment) you can visit FedEx Office, or some other print shop, or office store, and you'll be able to print the page(s) out. For FedEx Office, for example, you can send the prints over to "printandgo@fedex.com," which is the online way to transfer the project data over, for when you visit FedEx Office to do the print job. Their printers make nice stickers out of these prints.
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| A bunch of stickers that I printed, using FedEx Office's printers and professional paper-cutting tool. |
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| “Golden Tropical” glitch line art pigeon, rendered by Vector Q app, (2023) |
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| “Sprightly Sparrow,” glitch version. (2021) |
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| “Flattened Rat,” glitch version. (2021) |
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| “Poppin’ Pigeons.” 2021 |
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| iPigeon.institute brand logo for Pinterest. 2021 |
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| Baby Sparrow at feeding time. 2022 |
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| Curious baby pigeon in Pershing Square. 2022. |
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| Injured winged pigeon, kaleidoscope glitch version. 2023. |
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| Baby Fruit Bat, glitch version. 2021. |
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| Navy Stripes Cheetah pigeon illusion (masks). Rendered by Vector Q. 2022. |
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| Preening pigeon (triangles). Rendered by Vector Q. 2021. |
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| Wired lighting fanciful bird caricature. Rendered by Vector Q app. 2023. |
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| Vanilla planifolia vine, Harajuku Doll version. Rendered by Vector Q app. 2023. |
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| Ernst and Young Plaza, Downtown Los Angeles - Curious over a Fried Egg. (Artist unknown - George Herms?). Rendered by Vector Q. 2023. |
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Cute baby pigeon in hand, Tarot version. 2023.
Originally from:
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| 2023 California superbloom wildflowers. |
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| Romantic pigeon, glitch version. Poppy flower adapted from Dior artwork. 2023. |
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| Romantic pigeon, standard version. Poppy flower adapted from Dior artwork. 2023. |
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| birds restaurant, Hollywood, CA. Rendered by Vector Q app. 2023 |
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| Scientology Celebrity Center, Hollywood, CA. Rendered by Vector Q. 2023. |
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| Sketching exercise, primitives of pigeons, glitch version. Glitch by SCN app. 2023. |
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| Broken-winged pigeon, tropical poppin’ glitch version. Line art by Vector Q. 2023. |
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| Ashy rover beetle. 2023. |
More to come! Stay tuned, for updates!
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| June 24th, 2023 - Baby pigeon imagines Pizza Party!!! rendered by PinksCam app, by siyuan Lin. |
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