Sticker Workshop
Our Sticker Workshop is a process-based unit project. Over the course of the next few weeks, you will create a unified sticker pack that can be put in a public space.*
You will carry on the torch of designer artists everywhere by adding your voice to our social dialogue. Come up with a theme for your sticker pack. What message do you think deserves to be said out loud!? How do you want to convey it? Humor? Social awakening? A nod? Your sticker theme can be political, social or personal, for example:
“Chickpea ice cream for the win.”
“Leave no trace.”
“Beauty comes in all shapes.”
GOALS
- Create a 3-sticker pack on a *theme of your choice (school-appropriate)
- All stickers in your set should be unique designs but look unified like they belong together: related color, line weight, pattern, texture, type, style, etc.
- Stickers are original (your own creations). They may be based on pre-existing designs/characters. Still, you must alter them to be personal, different, unique
- Stickers are printable
- Identify your audience: who do you want to see your stickers? How do you want them to think/feel when they see it? Where will your stickers go for maximum impact?
This Sticker Workshop will be broken into four parts, with activities and assignments to support creating a unified sticker pack:
IDEATION
Use your sketchbook, identify your audience, create a mood board using Google Slides or Pinterest, or any tools you feel comfortable with to brainstorm and collect ideas to come up with your theme.
CREATION
Show steady work and evolution of design. Use your sketchbook. Submit timely process work to your portfolio and if you seek peer feedback use your Sticker Workshop Process padlets.
PRODUCTION
An important part to design is file management and setting up your files to get the desired results. This assignment will be printed onto vinyl sticker material.
REFLECTION
Write or orally record your designer statement. Include description of your sticker set’s theme and your intended message. Identify your audience, what you hope to convey and location your stickers will be going. Reflect on your design process.
RESOURCES
Designer Hack: How to Create a Unified Series
Our Daily Grind Padlets
Designer Artist Spotlight
Word Walls (Portfolio 2.0)
Come to async to talk through anything or get feedback
Power naps. You can’t pour from an empty cup.
RUBRIC
Our Sticker Workshop is a two-part 12-point unit project.
Criteria | Exceeds (4) | Meets (3) | Revise (2) | Submit (1) |
Ideation Skills Research, moodboard, brainstorm, identify audience, and in-process sketching and development 12 points (Relating art to context/ Connecting) | Designer shows idea generation by actively engaging in most of the ideation activities or sketchbook assignments.
| Designer shows idea generation but missing 2-3 ideation activities or sketchbook assignments.
| Designer does not show enough idea generation. Missing 3 or more key ideation activities or sketchbook assignments. | Not turned in yet. |
Creation Skills Create a unified sicker series around a single theme. 12 points (Developing works of art/Creating) | Designer creates strong unity across their set of three unique sticker designs by using repetition, continuity, or continuation in their elements of design. Sticker pack communicates a theme that is self-evident. May need minimal explanation. | Designer creates unity across their set of three unique sticker designs by using repetition, continuity, or continuation in their elements of design but there are some inconsistencies. Sticker pack communicates a theme but may have a few minor gaps. | Turned in does not yet meet the requirements of the assignment. See comments for specific feedback. | Not turned in yet. |
Technical Skills Stickers are printable, 300 dpi, have a contour outline for cutting. All stickers are set to fit onto an 8.5” x 11” artboard. Export as a PDF!!!!!!!! 12 points (Developing works of art/Creating) | Designer successfully imports art/sketches into Photopea or like software. Designer sets up the artboard to proper print specifications.
There is a contour outline for cutting. May have trivial mistakes. You exported your file as a PDF.
| Designer successfully imports art/sketches into Photopea or like software. Designer missing minor details setting up the artboard to proper print specifications or is missing a contour outline for cutting. | Turned in but does not yet meet the requirements of to print. See comments for specific feedback. | Not turned in yet. |
Reflection Skills Critique and responding 12 points (Interpreting art/ Responding) | Detailed designer statement: message of sticker pack, identifies audience and location. Participates in peer/self critiques, student uses key vocabulary from the unit. Writer reflects on how they created unity, what they like about their decisions and what they would do differently. | Sufficient detail given in designer statement: message of sticker pack, identifies audience and location. Participates in most peer/self critiques, student uses key vocabulary from the unit. Writer reflects on how they created unity, what they like about their decisions and what they would do differently. | Insufficient detail given in designer statement: missing message of sticker pack, identifies audience and location. Missing participation in peer/self critiques, student does not use key vocabulary from the unit. Missing analysis on how they created unity, what they like about their decisions and what they would do differently. | Not turned in yet. |