Stickers are a great way for artists to get up easily and quickly. No fussing about with paint cans or stencils on the street - just a handful of slaps in your pocket and any wall can be transformed into your canvas instantly. The instantaneous medium has grown hugely over the last few years and is becoming more and more popular with artists looking for a way to distribute their talent.

The first sticker design I’d like to look at is by Pahnl. Pahnl works with stencils and you can see the stencil inspiration behind this sticker making the design simplistic and bold. Great picture too! The two vertical stickers are unknown but are still very interesting.

This next sticker artist hand draws his stickers and has a an almost childish style which brings something new to the street. Big Bozo’s sticker design is unique and interesting, something away from the repetitiveness of many artists.

New Zealand artist solidstate has found a brilliant sticker on the streets. The sticker, shown below, is very cute titled ‘casper the giant has a posse’.

With the world facing energy issues imminently, environmental groups reminding us of our responsibilty to our planet and governments taxing everything that pollutes the globe, you are probably trying to limit your carbon footprint in one way or another - even if its just to save a bit of cash. The Un-plugged project is growing into a global phenomena taking over the streets of even the most inaccessible urban spaces. Un-plugged is an on-going project highlighting the possible loss of power that humanity will one day face! (A scary thought - can you imagine life without Concrete Canvas!!!).

The Un-plugged project involves the placement of stickers designed to look exactly like mains power sockets. As you probably know, not all countries have the same power sockets and so the variety of stickers is still there. It is a strange site seeing an indoor power socket on the street, especially on the outside of a multi-storey car park.

The project has been active for over 7 years, in 20 countries involving more than 40,000 stickers. Get involved asap and spread the message.

Links:
Un-plugged Website
Un-plugged Flickr Group

Our sticker competition has now drawn to a close and our winner has been decided by the forum residents.

We are pleased to announce that we will be getting Matt Robinson’s design produced. He has won 1000 of his design too.

However, as the competition was drawn into a second round of voting due to an initial tie, we will also be getting Cleandemon’s (who came second) design produced. He will be receiving 500 of his design:

Thanks to all those that entered. Keep checking back on Concrete Canvas for more competitions.

With the Beijing Olympics just finished it’s almost a perfect time to mention metatribe’s Street Art Olympics project. Metatribe has been taking flags of countries entering the Olympics, turning them into a sticker and changing them slightly to incorporate his logo. A brilliant idea with some awesome results.

See if you can guess the countries below, hit his flickr up for the answers:

Dotted around urban environments are a whole range of critters and I don’t mean your usual city wildlife. If you know where to look, you can find some awesome character designs. So this is a safari guide to finding those little bastards ;).

First up is a rare beauty found across the UK by a young artist known as inkJoy. The critter in question seems to be some form of drunk dinosaur - you better keep an eye on him as he’s often up to mischief.

If you look to the right ladies and gentlemen you’ll see a fantastic Cat/human hybrid by O Dear! Another sticker based artist who produces some great character work on and off the street.

The last stop on our tour is Starheadboy - if you look through those trees you can just about make out his ears. Another great artist, Starheadboy is based in Seattle, United States.

That concludes our safari tour, thank you for coming along. On your way out you can pick up some souvernirs from our gift shop!