Real media life stickers

I like this sticker concept. One of the better i have seen in a while. For some time it seemed to me that the imagination around the sticker medium was having troubles going beyond fun. I have reviewed thousands of stickers while being a jury member at the first international sticker award: http://www.stickeraward.net/. After the first few years of highly original sticker art/communication the concepts were getting week. I could observe this where ever i traveled- in the big cities, where sticker culture became something of a must do thing for the cool people (and advertisers)- most of the stuff was to me just funny and nice, at it's best. I missed the communicative power that this medium potentially has.

In order to go beyond fun a sticker needs to evoke engagement that plays with the social context in which it appears. That's the first rule. A sticker in it self is a highly contextual medium. This makes it so interesting.

This particular stickers speak what media experts and journalists who have to work in media already know for a very long time, while the general public is still not aware about such facts. Basically- most of today's journalism is a sad rip off. There is no research, very little knowledge and almost no integrity involved in the process of informing the public about things that are of important public value. I think this stickers tell this in a nice and precise way.

Their graphic design is rather informational, which makes them appear serious and ironically in tune with the values of the media- as they should be. At least in serious journalism.

I'd like to have some of those. Would be fun placing them in to newspapers in public places.

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