WHAT’S THE DEAL WITH STICKERS?

There is something attractive about stickers. When we were kids, we loved collecting stickers or getting them out of cereal boxes. When we were in high-school we put them all over our binders and jackets to show how much we loved “Aerosmith”. There is something about being able to personalize our personal property and decorating the space where we work and play. We have a need to vocalize our individuality through decorating our space.

WHERE DID THIS START?

I’m one of those sticky-philes who see a big blank space as a canvas for decorating. Modern design is leaning towards large smooth areas like everything is a big Tupperware container. People are wearing blank t-shirts and automobiles are being designed with very few styling effects. When I first bought my computer, I saw that big beige space on the side as a spot to put a really killer sticker. I never found that really well made design or precise logo out there so I put my architectural education to work and created one myself in AutoCad.

WHO WE ARE?

LinusCo Designs Company is focused on graphical design, precision in layout and creative thought. We are not a printing company. We are not a factory. Each decal you purchase has hours and hours of painstaking work behind it to get the finished product exactly as you want to see it. A lot of printing companies use “fuzzy logic” tracers which take a bitmap and find the best line to create a vector image. This completely contradicts the medium of vector graphics, which is based on mathematical precision. It is a slow and arduous task to get the Bezier curves and intersection points to line up but I’m sure you’ll agree that the final product is worth the effort.

WHY VINYL?

Vinyl stickers are, in my mind, an artistic medium. Much like screen-printing, it is based on large flat color surfaces and precise lines. Indigenous art such as those of the Celts in Ireland, the Aztecs, the west coast Indians and the ancient Egyptians are excellent examples of how powerful flat colors can be. Even many corporate logos use the this power as they are predominately flat colors organized in varying smooth curves, lines, and broad areas.

I hope you find a place to put a sticker to make that little corner of this earth a little more yours.

-LINUS