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No, That isn’t an error. It is supposed to be like that. Why would I post a broken link icon at the top of this entry? Did it trick you? It’s funny how common, everyday symbols can do our thinking for us – sending our minds onto some type of auto pilot. Is there a term for that? Yesterday I was surfing the net and came across this picture on the woostercollective and thought, “Wow. How fun. Where can I get me some of those stickers?” The website had very little information (who is Niko and Andrea?) So I decided to make some for myself. Then I though it would be fun to make them available to others in the Artifacting Store. My first one went on the upper right hand corner of the whiteboard in my office. Where is yours going?

While fiddling around, I also thought that the icon could look cool on a plain white envelope so I drew up some stamps with the broken image icon on it as well.

Anyway I hope some others can have some fun with these stickers, I’d be interested in finding out creative ideas others have used them for.

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  1. greg says

    love it.

  2. Diego says

    Hello Hubs,

    Great job! How did you find casadogalo.com?

  3. Erich says

    Anyone can put just about any image they want on a stamp. This is creative, yeah, but just go make your own.

  4. hubs says

    You’re right Erich, anyone can put just about any image they want on a stamp, or on a wall, or on a blog comment, or almost anywhere. So yeah, it’s all about the creativity. And the point of this whole thing is to show you that I did make my own, and now you don’t have to!

  5. Otto says

    At Zazzle.com, one can design, publish, and then get money when others use your design.

Continuing the Discussion

  1. Digg / Technology / Upcoming linked to this post on January 24, 2007

    [...] digg it Cool Broken Picture Icon Stickers [...]

  2. mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix linked to this post on February 13, 2007

    [...] i saw that too and wrote a post about it: http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2007/01/24/broken-picture-icon/ [...]

  3. Boing Boing linked to this post on February 21, 2007

    Broken image postage stamps…

    Hubs has the best idea yet for those custom image stamps. Link……

  4. adbdat - » Broken image postage stampsBoing Boing linked to this post on February 21, 2007

    [...] Hubs has the best idea yet for those custom image stamps. Link [...]

  5. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things linked to this post on February 22, 2007

    Broken image postage stamps [IMG 200702211418] Hubs has the best idea yet for those custom image stamps. Link posted by Mark Frauenfelder at 11:18:56 AM permalink | blogs’ comments

  6. Geef mij maar print - Adfoblog. Het weblog van Adformatie linked to this post on February 22, 2007

    [...] link’-icoon. Met verrassend resultaat. (Via Wooster Collective) De bloggers van Artifacting kwamen meteen met het idee van een postzegel met hetzelfde icoon (zie boven). Die is hier te [...]

  7. Shake Well Before Use linked to this post on February 22, 2007

    Continuing the interweb snickering for those in-the-know, Hubs adds to the existing ‘web’ of common experiences. As seen last month in various image-stricken pockets of New York, the broken-image icon is now making a debut on stamps, or at least that’s the hope. Inspired by the urbanscaping, Hubbard went DIY, creating stickers for the icon and eventually moving them to his mail. It’s a shame that this comes after Valentine’s Day, as I’m sure this could’ve generated a few VDay 2.0

  8. Rodrigo Barba » Blog Archive » Link Quebrado #2 linked to this post on March 29, 2007

    [...] outro maluco resolveu usar a idéia de link quebrado de imagens, agora para um selo feito por Hubs. fonte: BoingBoing Tags: broken, carta, image, imagem, link, mail, postage, postagem, quebrado, [...]



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