Truckfox Custom Vinyl Stickers!

I'm currently accepting commissions for custom made vinyl stickers.

[Click for a closeup, art by Keihound]
These stickers are excellent accents for any smooth surface. I have 3 on my car already! Two of the fox you see to the left, and one of my furry character. But you can put them virtually anywhere, laptops, computers, windows, you name it!

Ready-To-Cut Clip Art? Available clip art indexes can be found here.
Stickers made from clipart come out incredibly well in just about every size. The fox is 5" wide, from the clip art gallery, and still retains its detail. Clip art is cut as a single layer, so it would be 1 color of your choice. The indexes contain thousands of designs including animals, pinstriping, tribal themes, tools, signs, and logos.
Here are some highlights:
 Highlights

Custom Text/Bumper Stickers? Fonts are inherently vectors, which make them awesome candidates for stickerizing. I can put your phrase on a solid color background, and bam, you've got a bumper sticker.


[Vectorized Box-art from Zoids Model Kit]
Custom Single/Multi-Color/Layer Stickers? The sticker of Koda on the back of my car is approximately 8x8" which was the smallest size I was comfortable with, since the design had some very fragile parts. It has 6 layers: 2 main body colors, stripe color, eyes, nose, and mouth. The original source file was a flash vector, which was exported to an Adobe Illustrator (preferred vector format) file. I can cut just about any sort of vector-art, or vector-art looking designs (like tattoos) from a wide variety of formats. (That means, dxf/ai or png/bmp/jpg sources are okay! Flash too, if you export it for me.)
If you have questions about the capabilities, just ask!

Sizing and Resolution? Designs with very small pieces usually need to be bigger, for durability's sake. The vinyl is capable of being cut to within 0.025mm, however pulling the negative areas from the design (weeding) is very difficult with pieces so tiny.
The material width is a maximum of 24", by essentially infinity, however designs larger than 36" may have some tracking degradation. It's also subject to how much length I have in stock for a certain color. (So dont worry, I can make a nice big paw to slap on the hood of your car, if you really wanted it!)


Furry Inside!
About the Vinyl? The vinyl I use for the stickers is a high gloss, UV resistant, all-weather vinyl. It holds up well in rainy or arid areas without discoloring or becoming cracked and brittle. The vinyl does not deteriorate with road salt exposure during winter (I've had stickers outlast how long I've owned my vehicles!) They are self adhesive with a very strong material which holds onto smooth, non-porous materials (Such as glass and most plastics). It can also be placed on painted metal, and from what I've been told, clear-coated over, but I've never tried this. I also dont recommend sticking to a painted surface of a car, because it is much more difficult to remove without damaging the area. (Razor blades work perfect for glass removals, not so much on paint)

Starving Artist? Do you have a logo? Do you want a stack of stickers to give out at cons? I can help with that! I can work with you for discounts on bulk purchases and you can also save money by weeding/layering stickers yourself.

I Herd U Like Free Shipping? Anything which can fit in a 9x12" envelope ships for free in the USA via USPS!
FYI, folding is not an option, as creases in the vinyl can ruin it.
For larger designs, items will be shipped in a poster-tube at your expense.
Need it faster? Let me know.

Peeling
Stickers have a backing, and an application side for installation
How To Install?
  1. Clean the area with windex and allow it to dry.
  2. Peel the backing layer off, to expose the sticky side of the vinyl.
  3. Place the sticker and the application tape together onto the surface starting from the middle and work outward toward the edges
  4. Squeegy the tape/sticker onto the surface to remove bubbles.
  5. Slowly peel the tape off, leaving the sticker behind.
  6. If the sticker clings to the tape (small details can do this occasionally) just back up, and using a fork or something separate the tape and sticker
  7. The tape wont leave residue on most surfaces, and you can just throw it out.
Where Can I Get Some Art? I don't make the art! My job is to reproduce it in sticker form. If you'd like some vector art/vector-art-like of your character or design, you can commission anyone you like! Just let them know what the intent is (stickerizing).
You can also draw your own if you can make it cleanly. Think tattoos! Or, you can always go for some clip art style graphics!

Of course, if you already have art or a design made, run it past me (even if its not in a vector format) I can probably work with it.

Here are some fun stickers:
The furry seven!

Color Options? The colors I usually have in stock are:
Color Options
Gray, Pink, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Sky Blue, Red, Black, White, Green, Blue
Sometimes I get others from time to time. Never hurts to ask!
Special order colors can be found here. There is a minor cost associated with special ordering vinyl.
There are also GOBS of other neat vinyl materials I can use, rainbows, various prints, metalized, holographic, flourescent, and glow-in-the-dark. I don't keep that stuff in stock, but I can get it fairly easily. Just ask.

Paypal Whats the Bottom Line (Pricing)? Honestly, it will vary from project to project. Prices vary based on size and complexity of design. My tools allow me to cut very precise tiny details, however, the vinyl material itself is better in larger pieces to allow adhesion.

Most designs folks want cut are square or nearly square. I work generally on $1 minus the largest dimension, after 5". Really huge things or really tiny things are case-by-case. I would say 4 out of 5 times, something someone ordered was between $4-6

Remember, I can also mass-produce relatively simplistic items (like paws, letters, most logos) for pretty cheap! Usually getting down below $1 per individual sticker.

Multi color stickers are possible, if a small-detail layer can be sandwiched between a line-work layer and a solid color background layer. Because this is a manual process, and the vinyl is incredibly sticky to itself, large intermediate colored blocks become difficult. I give these types of things my best try! Prices usually are about the same for regular stickers, just multiplied by the colors and complexities.

Send questions/commissions to koda at rhysman.com or via FA Note to Geneec.
Commission Info
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