Category: Projects

The first time I heard the phrase “going all-city” was watching the 1983 graffiti documentary Style Wars when a young writer SKEME (I believe it was) explained the term. Graffiti writers in New York City would work hard and risk a run-in with the law or other writers to get their tags up in all five boroughs to achieve this notable feat. When I was thinking about the idea of going all-city and what it meant back then in the context of tagging, I also started thinking about what is possible now in the digital age with things like social media and using stickers as a form of tagging. Back then writers would use whatever was available to them to get their tags up – spray paint, homemade markers, carbon paper and blackboard erasers, even shoe polish. I had this idea of using what’s available now and going all-nation by sending my stickers to other sticker artists I connect with through social media and tracking where they go up to get one up in every US state. If you would like to participate in this fun experiment, shoot me an email at dave@davetoo.com or DM on Instagram at @davetoostickers and I’ll send you a few of my stickers and my address for you to send me a few of yours. I’ll post your pics and tag you on Instagram, so be sure to include your IG handle if you email.

Several years ago I worked collaboratively on a PEEL has a Posse project and asked people to submit their posse tribute designs. We got over two hundred submissions and printed many of them in a book and made sticker packs of the best designs. Some of the designs we meant to publish were lost in the shuffle, but I’m making this post to show a number of the submissions we received hopefully including the ones that were never published with more being added soon.

A few months ago I stumbled onto this project PickTheStickers.com that combines everything cool about the old days of Threadless’s t-shirt design competitions with many things I love about stickers. It’s a new community of sticker enthusiasts and sticker artists and in my opinion, it’s just what the worldwide sticker community needs right now.

It’s a subscription-based service where you get a sticker pack of six artist-designed vinyl stickers in the mail every month for $11. If you’re a subscriber you have the option to submit your own sticker design and then for approximately one month you and the other subscribers get to vote on the winning top three designs. Those three winning designs are produced and you get two of each design for a total of six stickers sent to you in a nifty little sticker pack. Also, the winning designers get paid $.75 for each pack sold.

I submitted my SPRAYMONSTER Pizza sticker design for the first month’s competition, voted every day, and won first place. Woohoo!

I’ve reached out to the good peeps at PickTheStickers and they’ve agreed to be interviewed for my blog where hopefully we can get the 411 on what plans they have in store for their project so stay tuned for that.

Check out PickTheStickers.com and jump in on the stickery fun.