Where do you put your stickers? 

Do you stick them on street signs? Design your laptop case to represent an ongoing autobiography? How do you immortalize expressions of your own uniqueness? 

I collect stickers and never use them.  They sit in drawers and journals – a little archive of images and memories that feel too precious to peel away.

Whether we use them or hoard them, we all interact with stickers differently. They’re everywhere—tucked into product packaging, covering lampposts in every city, passed out at concerts, traded among friends. Almost everyone has participated in sticker culture in some way.

Stickers came from necessity—early adhesive labels were tools of commerce, information sharing, and postage. Over time, they evolved into mediums of social reform (protest stickers or political slogans) and, eventually, became artistic expression. The line between vandalism and art blurs, as entire cities become sticker-covered archives of collective voices.

At the end of the day, stickers are less about the object and more about the urge: the itch to make a mark. They’re playful, disposable, low-stakes—and also deeply human. Whether you’re tagging a sign, branding your belongings, or hoarding a secret stash in your desk, you’re participating in the same ritual: announcing that you exist, and inviting others to see you.