I was very excited for this project, as it was one of the first things that I wanted to do in this program. I didn’t originally know we were going to be able to make stickers, but I do remember on the first day of school the teachers announcing that we had a die cutter that would work for stickers at Freestyle, and so it was something that I knew I had to do at some point. When actually starting however, I wasn’t super sure where to start. In being lost, I set a couple parameters: try to keep a simple and clean design motif, use lighter colors that lean toward paste, and when it doubt, draw a fruit. Through this, I drafted a few designs and decided on these five- among the designs that didn’t make the cut included bananas, oranges, and strawberries. From that, I had a lot of fun using the pen tool and picking out colors in Illustrator (though I would argue that it didn’t practice color theory). This project helped me become more efficient and precise with the pen tool, and also allowed me to make some tangible art. In terms of what I wanted to communicate, there really was no deeper meaning or symbolic connection when I set out to work on it. That is probably how it should be though; after all, they’re just stickers. I’m hoping that the designs are all agreeable to the eye, and would be able to fit into a clean aesthetic on many different surfaces.
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