We started by making stickers for ourselves — one for the laptop, one for the water bottle, one for the journal nobody else was going to read. The first batch was eight stickers in a brown envelope, hand-cut at the kitchen table. We were genuinely surprised when friends wanted them too.
Our work comes in three families. Code is the dev shelf — terminal jokes, tiny mascots, opinions about tabs. Aesthetic is for the laptops and bottles and the journals that do get read — cottagecore, study-mode, main-character energy. Beasts is our own little zoo of original tiny monsters, drawn here and printed here.
We print on matte 80µm vinyl, laminate everything so it doesn't scratch, fade, or peel after a rainy commute, and hand-cut the tricky shapes ourselves. Everything is printed locally, by a press we can walk to. We've dishwasher-tested every batch, by accident at first and then on purpose. They survive.
The name — stikr — is just sticker with the vowels you skip when you're texting a friend at 1am asking if they want one too. That's the whole brand strategy. Small things, made well, sent in nice envelopes.