Stickerification

Jar with leaf Design

Song Dynasty, China

small decorative pink ceramic jar with leaf pattern painted on sides

Skateboard

Stickers as a form of decoration

It is very common for people today to use stickers to decorate otherwise blank and minimalist objects of utility

This project is designed to show the way we decorate and personalize to make everyday items our own. This is used to show how people will add things to their common utilities in the modern day world to make it seem like it is customized to them. The shape of the three pieces based off of historic artifacts. We will combine the shape with the modern day stickers to create a vase, representing the historic, as well as the contemporary objects we chose.

Project Statement

Who: This piece could speak to people who are opposed to the minimalism that defines modern objects of utility. I also think people who use excessive stickers and decorations on things like water bottles, cars, and computers as a form of self expression would be represented in this

When/Where: This might be something that people keep in their own homes as decorations. When someone has a lot of stickers laying around they might use them to add on to the piece, since a lot of the time these stickers don't get all put on an object at once but rather tell a story.

Why/Impact: Objects of utility these days seem to be bare bones and deprived of built in decoration which is very different from the hand-crafted artifacts with floral patterns and intricate patterns that we see in museums as relics from the ancient world. This puts the burden of aestheticizing common tools on the person who owns the object rather than the person who makes it. This takes the form of putting an excessive amount of stickers on something like a blank water bottle or skateboard deck.

Emotional Response:There would be a clear juxtaposition in seeing a modern or trendy form of decorating something applied to something that looks like an artifact. This would stir up feelings of confusion but if there were multiple different types of people shown through different combinations of stickers, some people might relate or personally resonate with who might own the object.

Design Language:

Chaotic
Colorful but no unifying palette
Lots of detail
Many different shapes and patterns
disorganized

Flower Box

Our first object is loosely based off a box for holding incense from an unknown time period in Japan. This could represent the amount of flower stickers and all the stickers about positivity that are used to decorate things.

Gourd-shaped Bottle

The second object is based off of a vase from 18th century China. The modern looking elegance could represent the role of sleek technology in contemporary decorations.

Cup with Spikes

The last object in our set is based off of a spiked ceramic part from the 5th-4th century BC. The spikes on it resemble what someone part of an older punk/rock band would wear, but also what appears in stickers that relate to modern counter culture

Slip Casting Process

Digital Model in Rhino

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

Ceramic Cast

Slip Casting Process

Digital Model in Rhino

3D Printed Positive

Plaster Mold

Ceramic Cast

Slip Casting Process

3D Printed Positive

Mold Diagrams

Molds of each piece

Final piece molds

vase

spiky cup

spikes for cup

insense holder

spikes for cup

cup

spiky cup

insense holder

Thank You!

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