Final physical outcome

 Physical outcome

Bumper stickers

After printing my stickers on normal gloss vinyl yesterday, I wanted to experiment with neon and reflective vinyls. This required a bit more effort, as it isn't possible to print directly onto these type of vinyls. Due to this, I had to print on clear vinyl first, the apply this to the neon and reflective ones.

I'm super happy with how the bumper stickers turned out, especially now with the addition of the neon and reflective versions. In order to continue the fun sense of voice within my publication, I think it could be interesting to use multiple colours in the book to create a more playful visual language. I also had to hole punch these in order to add them in as tip-ins at the final stage of my production. 

In context

These images show how I wanted my stickers to be in context; on personal belongings such as laptops. This captures the intention of Stick it to The Man, as I want the audience to use the stickers as forms of activism. I think the neon in particular works really well on laptops as it stands out. 

Final publication

In order to ring bind the book, I had to (very slowly) punch individual holes into each page that would fit the spiral bind. Although this was a very very very long process, the I'm super happy that it actually worked physically. It's a slight shame that I couldn't find a spiral bind in a neon colours, but the blue still fits with the books' colour scheme and is still very playful. 

The pages

An issue I found when printing and creating the book was that some of the bumper stickers hung off the edge of the book slightly; this made the publication not have a clean edge. However, peer feedback actually suggested that this worked nicely and added a nice element to the design, so it could be considered a happy accident. In a way, it definitely gives the book more of a scrapbook feel to it, which in a sense celebrates the collective nature of stickers. 

Another issue I found with the physical print is that the backs of the tip-ins aren't very visually pleasing as they're just plain. Obviously, I'm not sure if this matters too much as the tip-ins will be planted as seeds anyway, and the stickers will be taken out to use as well. The only thing is it takes away from the publication being fully rounded visually. 

This image showcases the reflective vinyl; it only really shows up with flash photos, but I can imagine that it would work with car headlights too. I'm really happy with how these turned out, as the reflective versions work nicely in being bold and in your face, thus relating to the idea of protests.