While graffiti stickers nowadays are highly varied, most of the dominating style is big bold letters with contrasting colors, repeating again and again. Almost like they are a small easily readable variation on blockbuster pieces. There is another layer of stickers in the public space that serve as entry-level advertisements for DIY businesses, bands, or projects. They are usually artfully designed and have a wide range of creative influences.
Stickers Vol. 1 is from Tulsa's CULT LOVE SOUND TAPES, an art collective connected to various elements of the underground from coast-to-coast to overseas. There are esoteric bands, record stores, graffiti writers, and more, collaged on top of one another in a visually assaulting and cascading barrage of mind ads. The flat and almost glossy printed page is in direct conflict with the mental overload of reference points; each of them a new rabbithole into your new favorite band or label. The splintering of culture into a thousand pieces. The only thing that could have made it better would be hyperlinks.
STICKERS VOL. 1 - CULT LOVE SOUND TAPES
comes with a printed sticker from Cult Love Sound Tapes
28 pages, full color printing on thick paper, staple bound - 8.5" x 11"
first edition of 50 copies** Postage Paid in the USA **
design & production : CULT LOVE SOUND TAPES - 2026
Tulsa, OK

