Laptop stickers

I'm not sure if I want to complete the circle or not. I quite like the feeling of a work in progress.

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psd says:

Quite jealous of this idea, much nicer than my previous efforts ..
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Stephen Hawksworth says:

Do the stickers have to be "geek" specific?!?
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

Nope they don't have to be geek stickers, but it helps. I have some Winter Park stickers I need to add now that you mention it.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Ace_NoOne says:

You mean it's not a circle yet? I beg to differ!
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

Yeah Ace_NoOne, It's the illusory contours that I really like and make me not want to fill it all up.
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

pixellent says:

This is a thing of beauty! I love it.
(if you don't mind me saying so).
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

I don't mind you saying so, pixellent!
In fact I urge others to say the same ;)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

pixellent says:

Phew. Actually, they have done, but unless you also have exceptional hearing, you might've missed it :)
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Rain Rabbit says:

Really like this, excellent idea :-D
Posted 9 months ago. ( permalink )

Tim Howard says:

How did you create the circle?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Tim,

I made myself a template by cutting a circle out of a piece of paper. Then I just used that template to shape the stickers which overlapped with the circle boundary. I have the template folded up in a drawer so that I can use it whenever I want to add another sticker to the circle's edge.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

Nick,

Cool! The EFF stickers were the only ones that I actually bought (by making a donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation). A worthy cause.
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

welcometoalville says:

Don't complete the circle. The incomplete circle is a nice counterpoint to the centered Apple logo. Looks great by the way!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Iain Farrell says:

That is brilliant! How did you do it?! :)
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

ruthdickson says:

This is so cool. =]
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

@Welcometoalville

I agree. I think I'll stop short of a complete circle.

@Iain Farrell

Thanks! It was a very low-tech paper stencil job. I'm going to blog it since so many people have now asked.

@ruthdickson

Thanks! Great shot of those pencils by the way. (I was going to embed a thumbnail of them here but couldn't since they have all rights reserved.) Have you thought about a similar shot of multicoloured pencil shavings?
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Zurgo says:

Nice work!
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

飛起的羽毛。♡Feather says:

that was amazing！！！！
Posted 8 months ago. ( permalink )

Kamyk says:

nice!!!
Posted 7 months ago. ( permalink )

jaycameron says:

How did you cut the stickers out so they perfectly left the apple logo in the center showing? I mean I tried to cut a template out of a piece of cardboard and I'm having trouble working out how much curve needs to be cut as it is, a tutorial would be super!

I mean when the template covers the laptop you can't really see if the sticker is going to overlap another etc, and from what I can see you even cut stickers (firefox) so it did'nt overlap dopplr... now that is some precision stuff since you can't really see how much needs to be cut off...

arrrggh, its got me in a spin.

I'm guessing more than using the template.
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

ruthdickson says:

I was just looking back through my favourites and saw that you'd replied to my comment an AGE ago. =P

Yeah I ended up making everything all rights reserved as I got fed up with finding photos of mine being used by others without any form of credit, but it's a shame it stops people who then mean good!

I hadn't thought about that, but it's an idea I'm now rather interested in looking into...
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Tim Howard says:

When is this blog post tutorial coming Phil?
Posted 6 months ago. ( permalink )

Blazedale says:

r u really running ubuntu on this mac?
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

Blazedale,

Yep. But only under VMware for testing purposes. I spend most of my time in OSX.
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Matteo Visentini says:

Awesome !
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

Joshbarsky says:

This is so cool!
Posted 4 months ago. ( permalink )

claudefrancois says:

hey, great idea, I like your mac. I am in Europe and dont know where to get those Yahoo, Flickr stickers... is there a way to get them all in a single place ? thanks.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

Phil Hawksworth says:

Claudefrancois,

Thanks. I got most of the yahoo stickers from a big single sticker sheet that they often give out at conferences or events where they are speaking. If Yahoo! are attending anthying near you, I'd be willing to bet that someone while bring along a load of stickers.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

claudefrancois says:

Thanks phil... Well yahoo or google or all other big ones are not coming to my small town ... Maybe i make it with milk and chocolate stickers ;)
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

RavenHeart518 says:

Alright, I have got to know. HOW DID YOU DO THIS!? that's amazing, I've always wanted to put stickers on my MacBookPro, but I just can't stand how messy my friend's look with them.
Posted 3 months ago. ( permalink )

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