Sticker art in a traffic light in Antwerp, Belgium.

Sticker art (sometimes called sticker bombing or slap tagging) is a form of street art in which the message is conveyed by stickers. Sticker art is most noticeable in well-trafficked urban areas. Stickers may promote a political agenda, comment on a policy or issue, or comprise an avantgarde art campaign (see This Is A Heavy Product and Obey Giant). pop.ac (formerly known as Art Collart), a Hamburg artist, works since 1987 with stickers. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 793 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) author: Nuno Nogueira I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1536 × 2048 pixel, file size: 793 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) author: Nuno Nogueira I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... For other uses, see Antwerp (disambiguation). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Message in its most general meaning is an object of communication. ... Facsimile of This Is A Heavy Product sticker design This Is A Heavy Product is the text on a series of printed stickers that appeared on walls, street signs, trains and public fixtures throughout Australia and other parts of the world in the 2000s. ... André the Giant Has a Posse, now Obey Giant, is a street art movement created by Shepard Fairey as an experiment in Phenomenology. ...

Sticker art is popular with teenagers, due mostly to ready availability of supplies. Sometimes, unintentional sticker art can occur, with unconventional discards of free stickers, for example free stickers from voting booths, retail stickers, United States Postal Service labels, and stickers acquired from school drug-awareness programs. Free blank or mostly blank stickers can create intentional sticker art, artists can draw, paint, stencil or write whatever they want on their stickers. Popular blank stickers are USPS and DHL labels and 'hello my name is' name tags. “Young Men” redirects here. ... A polling station situated inside a suburban library in the north of Cambridge during the United Kingdom general election, 2005. ... USPS and Usps redirect here. ... A USPS Truck at Night A U.S. Post Office sign The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as the post office. ... A DHL Boeing 757. ...

Sticker art is considered a subcategory of postmodern art. Postmodern art (sometimes called po-mo) is a term used to describe art which is thought to be after or in contradiction to some aspect of modernism. ...

See also

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Sticker art

• culture jamming
• graffiti

Image File history File links Commons-logo. ... Culture jamming is the act of transforming existing mass media to produce commentary about itself, using the original mediums communication method. ... For other uses, see Graffiti (disambiguation). ...

Further reading

• Claudia Walde: Sticker City. The Paper Graffiti Generation (Street Graphics / Street Art). Thames & Hudson, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0500286685

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External links

• WorldWideWriters Graffiti Site | You can find some photos about sticker art.