Post-its – those handy little sticky notes – turn 30 this year. To celebrate the milestone, 3M is inviting young people aged 11 – 18 to create Post-it art. The winner will work with an artist to create the world’s largest billboard made entirely of Post-it notes. It will be displayed in Vanderbilt Hall at New York’s Grand Central Station in August 2010.
Both contest and prize seem appropriate; Post-its have often been used as a medium to channel artistic expression…
Here Post-its are arranged on a four-story canvas to recreate a classic Nintendo game.
This mural is actually a mosaic of individual, community-generated to-do notes.
In a pinch, you can also use them to redecorate your home.
The deadline for the contest is June 4, 2010.
And if you feel like you might need some background for your Post-It art, check out Studio 360′s post-it sized profile of the Post-It, provided by Paola Antonelli, design curator at the Museum of Modern Art.
-Michael Guerriero
Wow I never knew people could be so creative with post its! Great photos and topic
This sounds like a lot of fun!!
Hmmm this is really interesting- I hadn’t heard of this! Thank you for sharing!
Ha! That nintendo post it is awesome!
Love this!
Great!
The last pic is the best. It looks so vibrant and no one can make out what it is made up of unless told.
Ahh I love to see that the Donkey Kong ‘mural’ is still getting exposure. I saw all the work my friends put into creating that mural while I was working in the building. It took a LONG time.
Great idea: post-it = pixel. Possibilities are endless. Cool blog.
I am forever amazed at the creativity people demonstrate with the most mundane and taken-for-granted items from our daily lives. I hope kids jump all over this. Will be interesting to see what they come up with. Nice post.
I really wanted to try this out, but I don’t have Post-Its! Now who on earth doesn’t have Post-Its?!
Count me in. Plotting and scheming.
I wonder if one can re-a-Post-er a sofa with the little critters.
This is new to me aswell. Is so cool how people can create art with whatever is around them, and this is a great example about that. I love the pics! =D
–**NurisS**
Wow sticky notes can look great, as proven by these pictures. They are also very good for jotting down quick thoughts and ideas or reminders.
Extremely useful.
Remain.Simple
You should watch the post-it stop motion. The use for post-its is pretty amazing.
OK- that post-it wall behind the fireplace is awesome!!
The post it’s are so cool! I love this blog, great post!
“Post-art”, in and by it self, may very well be a legitimate art form. What 3M does here, however, is just a cheap gimmick, which lowers my opinion of it—the post-it version of American Idol.
Everyone uses post-its. They are so handy. Thanks for informing us.
Wow… that’s great. But the competition is only for teenager ya? hmm… it means I cant participate. Too bad. But the pictures here has already shown high level of creativity -especially the one that used as home decoration. Bright colours, nice composition and combination. Just great.
Way fun post! It reminds me to “keep it simple”.
Spidr
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great looking and very interesting!!!:)
Super awesome photo. It reminds me of my childhood.
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Austin Kleon made good use of them documenting SXSW recently – pre drew the stage, then changed the notes to draw each speaker.
http://www.austinkleon.com/
Very creative to apply them this way and create art. Cool!
How cool. Gotta appreciate the Post-its!
I’m guessing somebody, somewhere has cut them into squares, and is making mario out of pixel shapes / shades somewhere…
I like this content so much.Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Post it’s are like Duct Tape, you can’t live without them!!
Ramona Kent
Author of “Anomar’s Journey”
More ways to kill time.
yippee.
Talk about recycle and stay green ..pretty cool and unique
Clever stuff.
Very creative idea…post it really makes it.
This is amazing. One time in high school some friends and I covered someone’s car in post-it notes so when he came out of track practice, he thought his car had been stolen. It may have even been worth the 90 minutes it took us to cover the car.
Those are pretty amazing works of art!
Very Cool! Love the fireplace wall!
This gives me some new ideas for some interesting street art.
Very, VERY compelling and inspiring work. There is often a certain quality to work like this that people miss, which is sad.
Nice Art, I really like it.
Hoping to see more of your great postings.
Hi!
I always love post-its, and always keep some on my office desk as well on my fridge door.
I think those little sticky papers are very useful..
Great pics of fun-art you have here.
a.t. (“,)
I really like with what they do in the last picture! I wonder though, how long can it last?
Just want to say what a great blog you got here!
I’ve been around for quite a lot of time, but finally decided to show my appreciation of your work!
Thumbs up, and keep it going!
Cheers….
Hi there! Just wanna say that i like the post and the pics.
They are awesome. I will surely read your other posts.
Thanks.
Very interesting topics. i’m looking for this type of topics.
Hoping to see more of your great postings.
Post-it is probably one of the most brilliant invention in human history. It shows you how small things can actually have a big impact to our life and make our life easier.
Actually, I would consider the post-it one of the most trivial inventions in human history. I have written a few articles of my own on the topic of inventions. (Notably Not all ideas that glitter are gold. Note, however, that “gold” does not refer to money-making ability, but level of brilliance—and that the two are only weakly correlated.) Often, invention is just a matter of being the right person in the right place at the right time, the right person encountering a particular problem, or similar.
Going from margin notes, bookmarks, pieces of paper affixed with scotch tape (another 3M product), and stickers of various kinds to post-its is a near trivial step on the conceptual level. In all likelihood there had already been hundreds of people who had wistfully imagined such a product before it was actually and officially invented. The implementation may still have been tricky: Finding a glue that is sufficiently adhesive while still allowing a later removal without side-effects—that may well have required some considerable research. (Unless already present, in which case the invention becomes even more trivial.) However, in the end, this is just an implementation detail.
i love post-its!
i got plenty colors of them in my drawer..
and i really love the pics in this page. they’re pretty awesome.
Your photographic skills are excellent .You deserves a big applause.I actually loved the last one much
OoO those pictures gave me some great ideas to design my room with. Thanx!