Stickers Deluxe : From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art

Stickers, with over 2500 images of stickers and 8 pages of original sticker art, is a visual encyclopedia of sticker art. Most books on stickers only focus on street/graffiti art, but this book focuses on multiple genres including music, fine art, skateboarding, and political stickers. And unlike other books of this kind, Stickers includes eight pages of actual stickers created by artists who are influential in the sticker art world It begins with introductions by the author DB Burkeman, artist Shepard Fairey, and critic Carlo McCormick. The book is then broken down into categories such as music, zeitgeist (including contemporary and fine art), skateboarding, brands, street art, graffiti/tags, handmade, political, and unconventional/non-traditional (including temporary tattoos and wheat-pastes). To give each category context, each section begins with a text by influential writers or artists including Clayton Patterson, Cheryl Dunn, Moby, and Jonathan Levine to name a few, aiming to make Stickers a visual overview of the sticker, from a historical, technical, and social perspective. At the end of the book there will be 8 pages of stickers, some original works, by artists such as Ryan McGinness, Maya Hayak, José Parlá, Kenny Scharf, Surface 2 Air, and Haze.

DB Burkeman fell in love with stickers and street art at an early age via skateboarding and punk rock, but made a name for himself DJing between his homes in London and New York. Shepard Fairey is an artist and graphic designer who is known around the world for his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign and the Barack Obama "Hope" poster. Carlo McCormick is a curator, cultural critic, and the author of numerous books. He is the senior editor at Paper Magazine.