Michael Anderson, a Bronx-born artist, claims to have the largest collection of graffiti stickers, numbering 40,000 give-or-take. All of which he peeled by hand on the New York City streets with a leatherman tool and kept them in a notebook.

In 2008, the Ace Hotel came called on Michael Anderson to design a mural for the hotel’s entry way and the sticker wall was born. The collection boasts over 4,000 or so stickers scanned from Anderson’s notebooks. The curation provides a unique and visually interesting display in the hotel and commemorates New York’s long culture of street art.

The rest of the hotel is nice too, providing a homey-feel that is comforting. The Ace Hotel has expanded into several different cities including Seattle, Portland, and Palm Springs offering a similar feel, though New York is unique in the street art aspect of it.

I don’t know about you, but this hotel is definitely worth checking out the next time I’m out that way for a visit.

For more information on the hotel: www.acehotel.com

For more information on the sticker display check out the write-up on New York Magazine’s website.

Sticker Life has partnered with Sticker You for our Sticker Life store. Order one sticker or a whole page of them! Just drag and drop the artwork you want onto your page. From there you can scale and fit as many as you’d like. Stickers are high-quality, water resistant vinyl, and are die cut around the artwork – you know the good stuff. Great for pretty much any surface.

Illustrations provided by Armed Star Studios. New artwork will be added soon so stay tuned!

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Always a source of inspiration for stickers, graphics, and street art, 123Klan released their demo reel for 2011. It’s really sick so check it:

Check out the rest of their stuff at www.123klan.com

Sticker Life took a short trip to NYC a few weeks back. It was a journey filled with skateboarding, punk rock, and urban exploring. NYC is a playground for street artists and sticker artists. Here are a few of the coolest places we witnessed:

Randomly happened upon 5 Pointz – a huge artists area. We were actually on our way back from the Maloof skate park when we got off on a stop for some food. Saw this art oasis across from the subway station and had to explore.

A bunch of awesome stickers around NYC. Even scored some for free from Autumn Skate Shop and from a French artist we ran into at 5 Pointz. Love the underwear sticker!

Shepard Fairey spotting in East Village – near St. Marks.

We’d like to thank Chris Berntsen for putting us up in his awesome loft. We can’t wait to go back and see more!

GSelect has some awesome pics and review of the new book Stickers – Stuck Up Piece of Crap book up on their site. This is definitely something worth buying, for yourself or as a gift to any sticker/street art fan.

You can check out the deluxe and regular editions at Amazon too!

Sticker spotting at the local Borders book store. These cute little things remind me of the Lisa Frank stickers I had back in the day.

There’s no better way to protect your phone while expressing your style than with a skin. They’re inexpensive and do the job in protecting from scratches, they look awesome too. Below are a few of my favorites:

Homer Simpson Eats the Apple

There are quite a few skins that play off the apple logo. This is one of the more creative one’s I’ve seen lately. Especially cool if you’re a Simpsons fan. Get this skin and others like it from Apjam’s Ety’s shop. Read the rest of this entry »

I can’t think of anything more welcoming than when you’re in a strange place you’ve never been and you notice the town sign is covered with stickers- surfing, skating and art, this was our kind of town. A few feet later, we saw another, and not too much further down was streets lined with surf shops and small restaurants. We knew we reached our destination of good times. This was from Sticker Life’s trip to Costa Rica not too long ago. The cupcake sticker was my personal favorite.