Fruit Stickers
blogEvery day I doodle, sketch and take notes in a humble spiral bound notebook. With my trusty Papermate Non-Stop (sic) pencil, I jot down reminders like “ecfbac = light green. cf0 = darker green.” Alas, posterity will not be able to marvel at these electric thoughts as I tear off the soiled page at the end of each day, taking care to remove the ruffled slice of paper that sometimes gets caught within the spirals.
Given that there are only 80 sheets of paper in each notebook, they rarely last more than few months. However, I am ekeing out the life of my current one as long as possible, after idly deciding to affix fruit stickers to the cover. The results can be seen below:
I hadn’t appreciated the beauty of fruit sticker design before now. They are arguably the smallest canvas available to the graphic designer, but that hasn’t stopped their designers from utilizing an incredible variety of techniques to get people to look at them. I’m not sure what their goal is, but would guess that by being so small, they influence consumers.