Scribble on Walls - Self-Adhesive Wall Art
I recently got an email from one of my friends that announced the launch of his latest venture called Scribble Art (located at http://www.scribbleonwalls.com). Scribble turns any blank wall, mirror, window, ceiling, tabletop or even a low traffic floor into a giant canvas to create your design masterpiece.
Other than being a big fan of their logo (way to go Chris!) I am a big fan of the product. Removable wall art is not a brand new concept, I remember first reading in Business 2.0 about Blik who also produces designer surface graphics. They’ve been 2 years in development and received plenty attention from press and the art worlds. This is a good thing - as Scribble has a proven model to emulate - and yet the challenge is that they have to differentiate their product and design in the eye of the consumer.
Their website just launched a few days ago, and so there’s still a few technical glitches. (I had trouble using it in Safari, which is a known bug). But it’s well organized, fun, and for a company just launching - they’ve got a lot of great designs which will only continue to build. They’ve made an good effort to be playful with their copy such as the following:
The point is, we’re design geeks who get off on creating self-adhesive art for your walls. We’re not hip, Swedish people. In fact, we don’t even know any hip OR Swedish people. We are garden-variety art and design geeks. And we’re precisely the sort of people you’d want in your house creating cool designs for your walls. As long as we promised to leave at a decent time.
Could those “Swedish people” the website refers to be my sweet IKEA folks?
For the Therty Brand headquarters (I blogged about this company a couple days ago) I think it would be fun to do large spots with different designs to reflect their product and logo. What great ideas can you think of to do with Scribble art?
Congratulations on the launch! Happy Scribbling!
December 2nd, 2006 at 1:59 am
It’s like scrapbooking paper for your house. Should do very well in Utah!
December 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
I wouldn’t compare it to scrapbooking exactly. I was hoping more for the Ikea of wall graphics, clean, easy and affordable.
From your freindly neighborhood scribbler.
December 9th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
blik has been doing this for 4 years now, this is a complete rip off by scribble, right down to the product names and “how to”.
April 4th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
[…] Some time ago Jon Bybee, a college classmate of mine, called me up to say that he liked the bugs posted on my site and asked me if I was interested in submitting a few for a business he’s a partner in called Scribble on Walls. I knew of the website via a blog which I’d read and had jokingly made the comment that the idea of wall art reminded me of scrapbooking paper for your room. Not that that’s a bad thing of course. High-end scrapbooking paper, as Jon said. I’m interested to see that business progress and ought to spend more time looking at what other designers and illustrators have posted. So here are a few more bugs to pin and label in my portfolio: […]