COOL WALL STICKERS

Why put words and writing on the wall?

In our business, we work with creating powerful messages for walls every day.  These messages might be branding messages for the office, sometimes they are personal messages for people’s homes. We translate them via vinyl lettering, in wall graphics and in window films.

And to be honest, we (that is the people at Cool Art Design) sometimes become blind to the message.

You know when you do something every day and suddenly everything becomes the same.  Same thing, different day?   And then something jolts you into thinking, and then action, and suddenly you are reinvigorated and see with fresh eyes. 

Well yesterday a customer put it so perfectly into words for us. And it made sense!

A customer rang up and wanted to create a set of 20 words which are motivational words, into a word mix using cut vinyl lettering in different colours and fonts.These would be applied as wall stickers to the wall for their staff to see.

For us, we do this every day, so the process was, get the pen out, ok, hit us, give us the list and we start writing.

But then he said…. “The reason we want to do this is because these are the words that our staff forget to use every day”.

One line, very simple, and I thought, yes, this is why we do what we do. 

Affirmation is a very simple but powerful tool that can be used daily for attitude changes. And the best thing: it’s for free!

By putting these messages in visual placements in offices and homes, the message or affirmation can be repeated anywhere and at anytime.  Life is busy, and we do forget.

We forgot.  Thank you to our customer for reminding us why we make wall quotes and wall words day in and day out…

Often the words we forget to use the most

are the ones we most need to use.

Go crazy with your wall sticker words!

Love this!!

This is a combination of about 3 of our wall word mixes.  Vivid Impressions went crazy with them and made this gorgeous heart of words.  We thinks we might "borrow" that idea back!

The studio looks fantastic and we think the heart design is a great feature.

Wall words from Cool Art Vinyl are vinyl cut lettering that are supplied on a backing paper.  A clear application tape is used to transfer the pre spaced letters to the wall surface, and shabam, a hand painted look in no time at all.

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Wall Quotes and Wall Lettering: How to

Creating wall quotes and wall lettering for your office or retail shop can be both cost effective for decorating, as well as a fantastic personal touch to the decorating space.  The same process we are going to describe below can be used for rooms in residential, educational facilities or hospitals.

 
 

STEP ONE:  What do you want to say?

A popular choice for using wall quotes in an office is to display your mission statement or a vision for the company.

In a retail store, perhaps you are trying to capture the essence of your store, and then using either a quote from a person that matches your store identity, or alternatively you could just use emotive words.

There are so many ideas.  For a pet shop or a vet clinic you could have animal related wall quotes.  This gives the people in the waiting room something to read and is a fun and emotional way to decorate the waiting room.

For a sports store or sports injury clinic, you could have sports, achievements in sports, or simply words to decorate.  A cool idea would be to have various sporting guiness world records dotted around the shop/clinic.

STEP 2: What colour and font?

Choosing a colour is easier than choosing a font.  You need to focus on what will be readable to customers entering the shop, or staff entering the office.  Do you have corporate colours?  Think about matching the wall quote to your corporate colours. 

Sticking with block, upright fonts will be easier to read than cursive running writing, but then running/ hand writing fonts have more  feeling than block fonts.

STEP 3:  What size?

If you have a large wall space, or multiple walls, then the main consideration for size is whether the wall quote will be lost on the wall.   If you have a pre determined size, then making the wall lettering fit the space will be a little easier.

STEP 4: How to design it?

If you have word or photoshop or another graphics program, you could play with size, fonts and colours yourself.  

If you do not have access to these tools, then simply writing a brief is a good start-  that includes the words, the size space you have to decorate, and possible style such as modern/ contemporary/ rustic etc.  You can forward the brief to a wall quote specialist like Cool Art Vinyl and they can mock up a design for you.

STEP 5:  Ordering and Installing

Whether designed by yourself or with a wall quote business, the next step is to choose whether to self install the wall quote, or to have someone install the design for you.

It is very possible to install wall quotes yourself and the most important thing is to see the installation as a project.  You need to plan it out, get the right tools and then set aside some time to do the actual installation. 

We have a few articles and videos on installing wall quotes that include:

Top tips for perfect wall lettering

Videos on installing wall stickers

If you have any questions or ideas about using wall quotes or wall lettering in your office, retail shop, home or clinic then feel to contact us to discuss.

For ideas for wall quotes you can checkout out wallquotes.com.au

 

 

 

Customer Self Installed Signage: Corporate Office Wall Signage

You know your own business better than anyone!  So why not customise your office/ business space with self installed wall graphics.  The below three images (not fabo images) but the customer sent through after installing were self installed by one of our customers.

They also had the vision and the idea for what they wanted to represent their brand and we just simply were the production team that made the wall lettering for them.

This wall above is a big 3m wide wall painted blue and we made them a copy of their mission statement that they self installed.  The lettering is perfectly straight is a great statement in their office.

This central column in the office space just needed their logos.  We made these 55cm wide to fit the column in their office and they installed them.  Great job!

This is a massive wall and these words are very large as you can tell from the small power points in the bottom left of the wall.   Made in different colours and the words create a great statement on the wall.

Customising words does not cost anything.  We only charge for the vinyl used, not for any design work.

You can use our create your own wall words system, or simply email Cool Art Vinyl to  get a quote on your own wall words.

 

 

 

How to apply wall stickers to glass

Applying wall vinyl to glass can be tricky. The glass has a very hard surface and so to apply the vinyl without creating a bubble behind it is the trick.

Here’s a few tips to help you apply your wall sticker vinyl to glass. These tips refer to die cut vinyl designs, not large slabs or strips of vinyl.

1. Don’t clean the vinyl with a windex or windolene type product. Many household window cleaners contain powerful repellents that stop the vinyl from sticking at all.
2. Line up the design where you wish to apply it. Tape along a straight edge. Lift design and dampen the glass underneath using a soapy cloth.
3. Dampening the glass helps move the air out from under the vinyl.
4. Starting at the taped edge, scrape the design downwards using a fair amount of force, this will help squeeze any bubbles out.
5. Leave the transfer tape on the front of the design for 24hours then remove. If you remove straight away and you did dampen the glass first, the design will probably lift off with the transfer tape. So best to wait.

Using wall quotes to decorate a work or retail decorating space.

Wall quotes are a fantastic way to promote an emotion in a work or retail decorating space.

For work spaces that are employee only environments, using wall quotes and wall sayings are a powerful way to inject the decorating environment with a company ethos.

For example, applying your business mission station or vision as a feature wall art design is a good way to promote understanding and re-inforce what the business is all about.

Alternatively, creating a word mix that specifically targets the words your business bases it's values, ideas and innovation around can be a subtle yet highly effective way to promote the business.

This week we finished an installation at a forward thinking, innovative business called iknowho.  This company has very unique and distinctive branding that they wanted brought into their primary meeting room. 

For less than $200 (AUD) this is an awesome way to brand your business.

For information on customising your work place in a cost effective manner, contact us.

Details on above design:  Designed by Cool Art Vinyl for iknowho (www.iknowho.com.au).  Design size = 160cm  x 100cm high.  Three colour design in ultra thin vinyl .  Each letter is vinyl and the wall is shown behind and through each letter.  Result is that lettering for wall looks hand painted, not like a sticker.

Wall quotes and sayings are a great feature for decorating rooms!

For the next few weeks we are going to showcase some of the amazing designs that have been completed lately using Cool Art Vinyl wall quotes and wall sayings.

Some of these have been all our ideas, but the ones we love the most are when you gloriously creative people out there come to us with a great idea, and we work with you to create fabulous features using words and sentences.

Case Study 1:  Newly renovated home needed quick addition of some decorating pizzaz added to the kids rooms.

This family in Sydney had just finished doing a very quick reno to their new home so they could move in.  They plan to do a full renovation later on so just needed some cost effective simple additions to the kids rooms to add some personality to the rooms.

We did a site visit, measured everything up and came back with some layouts.  This was a classic case where the customer knew exactly what they wanted and just needed quick and easy implementation. 

Room 1: Feature wall quote for a sporty go-getter boy.

Room 2: Three different layouts for a boy who loves planes!!!

Final one he chose:

Room3: Word mix and a quote to decorate an older boy's study room.

Room 4: Cute customised word mix for a small boy's room.

 

We hope you enjoy seeing how easy it is to add high quality, yet cost effective feature designs to your rooms.  Wall quotes and wall sayings are best suited to painted plasterboard or gyprock walls, or very well clad concrete will work but only if there is minimal texture.

The best way to know if your walls are okay for wall quotes and sentences is to ask us for a sample swatch to test your wall surface.