Sticker Stories Blog

Get your skate monkey on! The 80 HD Skate Company is a new skateboarding and apparel lifestyle brand, out of Charlotte, North Carolina, founded in July of 2012 by Owner/Founder/Designer/Photographer Alex Ramsey. 80 HD currently offers two skateboard decks for sale on line, the "Chimpantee" and the "Weapons of Mass Destruction," along with a line of v-neck t-shirts and the conventional...

“If you work just for the money you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customers first success will be yours.” - Ray Kroc Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc was the man responsible for turning McDonald's into the most monolithic fast food emporium the world has ever known. He clearly loved what he did. This would not be America without a Double Cheeseburger...

[Editor's note: The Colorado Card website is down, but here's their story.] The Colorado Card's motto is "shop local" and "save local." We are committed to increasing the public image of small businesses and providing our users access to local artists, restaurants, cafes, shops, and services in Colorado. Our Brand is committed to increasing the public and digital image of small business...

  Do nickles, dimes, pennies, and quarters drive you nuts? Do you ever wonder why merchants price their goods at $1.99, $14.95, or $9999.99 rather than a flat two, fifteen, or ten thousand bucks? Do you ever get the feeling that stores are trying to play a psych game on you? Well of course they are! The ninety five, ninety nine thing has become so deeply ingrained in our moder...

We love it when our customers send us unboxing photos! GoldFire Studios breaks the rules ... the rules that say an Internet game developer needs to be located in an ultra-hip latte-sipping locale like San Francisco, Seattle, Austin, or New York City. High-rent districts? Fuggetaboutit! Based in Oklahoma City, GoldFire builds cross-platform, real-time games with community at their c...

Before founding Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen had a different venture. While still high school students in the 1970s, they formed a company, Traf-O-Data to read the data from traffic data recorders and create reports for traffic engineers. Looking back, the business seems like it was from another century (which it was). The old data recorders used paper punch tape ... a rather arc...

At the Vassago Bicycle Company, it's been "Nothing But Big Wheels Since 2005" ... Vassago went through its share of trials and tribulations, but they've returned, “under completely new ownership and management, and badder than ever! Saved from the brink of extinction (or worse… becoming a mail order house brand) by a group of passionate riders, racers and builders Vassago is poised for a...

I'll sign for that! Never mind Victoria's Secret. The roots of Mike Shampine's perky illustration style run back to the days of his youth in Alaska, where legend has it, he drew (literally) inspiration from stacks of comic books and Sears lingerie ads. I may be totally off, but I see a hint of Vaughn Bode in Mike's work. His WWII aircraft nose art pin-up renderings literally pop off the ...

Boulder, Colorado-based FlixMaster [Editor's Note: FlixMaster is now Rapt Media. We've preserved the sticker story for posterity.] brings enhanced interactivity and “branching” to online video. With traditional video, a storyline follows a path from start to finish. Branching allows viewers to choose the direction of the story, influencing the twists and turns. Added interactivity ropes in ...