- Hey everyone, welcome back to my channel.
Now, some of you may or may not know,
that as well as my usual channel, I also have a podcast.
It's me and my friend Femke talking about design
and side projects, it's called Design Life
and I really like it, you should check it out
if you haven't already.
We've been doing it for about a year now,
and as part of our one year podcasting anniversary,
we wanted to release a special product to an online store
so we launched, a sticker pack.
It was designed with our listeners in mind,
who are this group of really motivated, awesome creatives,
so it's all stickers inspired by that.
And I thought might find it interesting to hear about
how we went about getting these sticker packs produced.
Because a lot of it was done a very DIY way.
I physically put them all together myself.
And I'm gonna show you how I do that here in this video,
as well as give you some advice
for getting stickers printed, designing stickers, et cetera,
if creating a sticker pack is something
that you're interested in doing.
We had three main goals in mind with our sticker pack.
We wanted to have really high quality vinyl stickers in it.
We wanted there to be a good range of stickers,
so that there was something for everyone
and also so there was enough in there
that it was worth people paying the $10 price point for it.
And we also wanted to make the whole package in general
feel really high quality and special when they receive it.
From that, we decided that six stickers in varying sizes
would be a good number to go with.
So, the first one that I designed was this one here,
that says "Side project addict,"
which is something that I often put in my bios online.
I just really like it as a phrase, because we are addicted
to creating new side projects for ourselves.
I designed this one in this stacked format
and the side project is actually in my handwriting,
addict was a font, but yeah.
I really like how it turned out,
and I put the little designlife.fm at the bottom, the URL,
just to keep it connected to our brand.
Also in the pack, we have a logo sticker.
We didn't want our whole pack to be full of logo stickers
because I think that's kind of, I don't know,
a bit of a rip-off and a bit cheesy when brands do that.
So you buy a sticker pack and then it's basically
the same logo in different sizes.
But this one here is our Design Life logo,
purple background with the logo in white on top.
It's really small and cute, and I think it's really nice.
And this is one the Fem designed, this one here.
This says, "Make Things."
This one is hand-letter and then vectorized,
which makes it really special.
And that's how we created our logo, too, actually.
But yeah, really special sticker and a good reminder
to create stuff.
Next we have three circular stickers
which are really good for filling in space on laptops.
I don't know if you've seen my laptop,
but I'll an insert an image of it here.
This one is an icon of a microphone,
just says Design Life, for motivated creatives,
which is our, like, tag line I suppose.
Then I wanted two more circular ones
and I put different icons on them.
So first up, this orange one here, which obviously
matches the color of the Make Things sticker.
It says, "Stay Motivated, Keep Creating,"
which is a nice little reminder.
And the light bulb is meant to symbolize ideas,
which is obviously something you need for side projects.
And then the last one, it has the same outside to it
but on the inside is a pencil crossed with a ruler.
That's like an icon that's generally used to signify
creativity or design.
When we had all the files for the stickers,
I saved them as PDFs, and I got them printed
through StickerMule, which is a really great website
for high-quality, vinyl stickers.
I went for the custom die-cut option for most of them,
and then the circular ones, obviously,
for the circle stickers.
But they can cut the stickers to any shape you want.
Good print quality as well,
so I can definitely recommend them
if you're looking to make a sticker pack for yourself.
Not sponsored or anything,
just genuinely think it is a good site.
So as you can see, when you put these stickers together,
the colors go together nicely
and there's that nice mix
of the more structured, circular, icon stickers
with the hand-lettered stickers as well.
To package them, because we obviously didn't want to just
put a bunch of stickers in an envelope and send them,
because that doesn't look so nice,
I bought a bunch of these little Ziploc bag things.
And I just put the stickers inside them to start with.
When I stack them, too, I tried to make it
so that the side project one, which is the biggest,
is at the back, and a logo one is at the front,
because I know that's gonna look nice inside the package.
But this is still not special enough on its own,
so as well as that I got these tops for the sticker packs
that I got printed at just a print shop near my work.
It's got our logo on the front, it says "Sticker Pack,"
and then on the back it says,
"Stay Motivated, Keep Creating," that phrase that I like.
It's got a URL and also "out of 50"
and then I hand-number which one in the series it is.
We decided to make this sticker pack a limited edition
run of 50 just to make it a little bit more special.
To attach this to my package,
I am just using double-sided sticky tape.
So I've got one strip on top and one on the bottom.
Generally just put the card down,
and I'll to do it so you can see,
peel off the sticker from the bottom layer,
grab my package and line it up evenly
so the Ziploc line is just above where the sticky tape is.
And stick that down.
Then peel the top and stick that down.
And then you have a sticker pack that looks
much more professional even though you did it yourself.
So, this is what we showed on our site,
and what our listeners bought.
I think it's really cute all packaged up together.
Inside the package though, when we sent them,
we wanted to include something special as a little extra
that we didn't promise that we were gonna send
or talk about it anywhere, we wanted it to be
a nice surprise when we people opened their packages.
So what I did was get these little prints made.
This says "Side project addict," it's the same design
as the sticker but reversed.
And it's blank on the back so I could write a message
on there before I put it in the post.
I think it's really nice when you're selling products
to include something special extra in the package
that the buyer didn't actually order
but you know that they'll like anyway.
And something like a print is really cheap to get produced,
especially at this small size as well.
But the thought goes a long way
and this is a nice thing that people can put
on their walls, obviously.
So that is our sticker pack.
I hope you enjoyed hearing about it
and what went into making it.
I think there's often more than you think,
like more effort than you think,
that goes into making physical products,
so I hope you found this interesting.
If you'd like to buy one of these,
they are limited edition, but we do have,
I think there's about 10 or so left in the store
at the moment.
So, if you want to be quick, there'll be a link
down below in the description,
or you just head to designlife.fm/store.
You can pick out one of the last sticker packs
and stick them on your computer.
If you have any more questions, anything I didn't cover,
please feel free to ask them down below in the comments
and I will get back to you.
Thank you for watching,
give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it,
and I will see you next time.
Bye.