Broken Picture Icon
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.
1 Digg / Technology / Upcoming Says:
[...] digg it Cool Broken Picture Icon Stickers [...]
2 greg Says:
love it.
3 mental_floss magazine - Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix Says:
[...] i saw that too and wrote a post about it: http://www.artifacting.com/blog/2007/01/24/broken-picture-icon/ [...]
4 Diego Says:
Hello Hubs,
Great job! How did you find casadogalo.com?
5 Boing Boing Says:
Broken image postage stamps…
Hubs has the best idea yet for those custom image stamps. Link……
6 adbdat - » Broken image postage stampsBoing Boing Says:
[...] Hubs has the best idea yet for those custom image stamps. Link [...]
7 Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Says:
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
8 Geef mij maar print - Adfoblog. Het weblog van Adformatie Says:
[...] 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 [...]
9 Erich Says:
Anyone can put just about any image they want on a stamp. This is creative, yeah, but just go make your own.
10 Shake Well Before Use Says:
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
11 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!
12 Otto Says:
At Zazzle.com, one can design, publish, and then get money when others use your design.
13 Rodrigo Barba » Blog Archive » Link Quebrado #2 Says:
[...] 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, [...]