Stickers

The Paper Pirate

The Can Cowboy

These are the full size stickers that are to be printed on vinyl and applied to regular swing top bins. They are wider than the bin so that the design goes edge to edge and the excess is just stuck to the side of the bin. It is only a matter of a couple of centimetres wider on either side so it's not a waste of materials, it's just there to ensure that the design goes from edge to edge when applied to the bin.

I really like the way that these designs came out. They were taken from sketches on my design sheets and coloured using simple, bright colours. The designs were inspired by images of stereotypical pirates and cowboys. I chose to look into these two characters because I was researching professions, if a pirate is a profession, that are most recognisable to children.

Most kids have an idea of what they want to be when they grew up, if somewhat unrealistic, I took the professions from these kind of 'dream jobs'.

I wanted to use alliteration in the titles for the stickers that will be stuck to the lids of the bins, as through research I discovered that children respond to rhymes and alliteration though looking at children's books. So 'The Paper Pirate' and 'The Can Cowboy' were produced.

I looked at a variety of fonts that related to each character and stuck them up for people's opinions on them. After I had taken in the responses, I chose and used the most popular font choice for each character.

Both fonts were sourced from dafont.com and the pirate font is called 'Pieces of Eight' and the cowboy font is called 'Drift Type'.

-HJ x