The origin and development history of WALL STICKER

WALL STICKER is an emerging decorative material originating in France. A wide range of personalized artistic taste patterns, after printing and machine stamping, the patterns can be freely assembled on walls and various smooth surfaces. Wall art stickers have quickly become popular in the home decoration market with their excellent decorative effects and convenient decoration methods.

Origin of wall art stickers:

At the end of the 20th century, wall art stickers have become an important decoration method in Western countries. As long as the owner does it himself (D.I.Y.), professional decoration effects can be achieved. . The use of wall art stickers has gradually become an important feature of classic decoration works by Western designers. This new product can be used on any clean, smooth, hard wall or other household surfaces. After decoration, it not only shows the owner's taste, but also is a clear expression of lifestyle. A variety of design works can completely transform home areas, office areas, children's bedrooms, children's entertainment rooms and other home spaces, adding more colors and styles. In European and American countries, more and more people use it for decoration in bars, restaurants, hotels, offices and various commercial stores, becoming a strong competitor for traditional wallpapers and hollow wall art. Wall art stickers from well-known foreign brands all use environmentally friendly materials, such as heat-resistant paper, PET, PC, or European soft PVC. After the artistic pattern is printed, it is stamped and separated using a machine, which becomes the wall art sticker we buy in the mall.

Design style of wall art stickers:

According to design style, wall art stickers are divided into two categories: one is thematic pattern, which can be pieced together into a design based on the schematic diagram attached to the product The effect recommended by the designer, that is, the renderings in the product catalog of the wall art sticker manufacturer generally have only one arrangement; the other is the material pattern, which mainly relies on the creativity of the construction staff to match the abstract artistic conception, although there are also recommended effects in the manufacturer's product catalog , but the ever-changing arrangement of possibilities makes this kind of wall art stickers a favorite type of Westerners, that is, D.I.Y. wall art stickers. Material characteristics:

1. Special heat-resistant paper (PAPER WALL STICKERS): Wall art stickers directly printed and embossed on special heat-resistant paper. Features: matt, environmentally friendly, natural, comfortable and friendly. Because of its non-transparent characteristics, which limits the design of wall art stickers, and its slightly poor waterproof performance, it is gradually being replaced by transparent rubber-surfaced materials. 2. PAPER BACK PET/PC WALL STICKERS: The backing paper is white silicon paper and the surface is made of PET, PC and other transparent materials. It is an increasingly widely used material. Traditional brands include France's DOMESTIC, WALL PAL, PLAGE, WALL DESIGN, and Germany's D-C-FIX, which cooperates with Brewster from the United States. Features: Matte, environmentally friendly, bright colors, rich patterns, stain-resistant and scrub-resistant.

Adhesive:

REMOVABLE (transferable): After the wall art sticker is applied to the glass, tile, wooden or metal surface, when it is peeled off again, there is no glue residue or the glue does not appear. Damage phenomenon, but the sticker can be effectively pasted again. Generally, the stickiness begins to weaken after repeated application for more than 5 times. In November 2009, according to news reports from the BATIMAT exhibition in Paris, France's WALL PAL developed wall art sticker materials that can be pasted repeatedly in large quantities.

Wall stickers

---Wall art stickers with cutting technology

Compared with traditional wall art stickers, the biggest feature of wall stickers is that they do not require stamping Molds and production methods are easy to popularize. You can use an engraving machine (CUTTER) to cut by inputting graphics on the computer, instead of the stamping machine used in traditional wall art stickers. Domestic wall sticker brands generally use outdoor self-adhesive materials. Thanks to the rapid popularity of online sales platforms such as Taobao and eBay, "wall stickers" have become the most widely used term for wall art stickers in China. This new type of wall art product developed on the basis of stamped wall art stickers has a low entry threshold. Since 2007, a large number of wall sticker brands have emerged in China.

Among them, love wall stickers, happy wall stickers, Fanfei wall stickers, aesthetic wall stickers, wall painting gull wall stickers, flower edge wall stickers, space art wall stickers, Junhui wall stickers, Dobet wall stickers, and Meiting Wall stickers, Valente wall stickers, post-80s wall stickers, etc. have all become leaders in the industry and occupy a large market share.

Origin of wall stickers:

The emergence of VINYL wall art stickers

In 2007, in the Villepinte Exhibition Park in the northern suburbs of Paris, MAISONamp; OBJET Paris At the Home Decoration Expo, VINYL WALL STICKER (VINYL wall art sticker) was introduced to the world for the first time. The unlimited cutting process allows people to freely D.I.Y. their own creativity and decorative ideas, making the wall more vivid. In the past few years, many suppliers of VINYL wall art stickers using cutting technology have emerged in the United States, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and other countries, such as WALLS NEED LOVE, WALL PAL, VINYL ATTRACTION, RIGHT ON THE WALLS, WALL STICKER OUTLET, DALI DECALS, VINYL WALL DESIGN, MORDEN WALL GRAPHICS, WALL STICKER SHOP, ETSY, COOL ART VINYL, SPIN COLLECTIVE, etc., there are countless. These Western VINYL-type wall art stickers generally use indoor vinyl (VINYL) material, which is a PVC gel decorative material currently mainly produced in Europe. It is a soft-textured PVC for indoor use, and most of them have passed the "CERTIFICAT EPD" environmental protection certification. The processing process generally uses high-precision professional cutting machines. This kind of cutting machine is a small quantity customized product from manufacturers such as SUMMA in the United States. It can carve high-precision artistic curves and costs more than a hundred times that of a computer cutting plotter.

The development of wall stickers in China

Wall stickers, a new vocabulary that became popular after the 2007 MAISON & OBJET Paris Home Decoration Expo, are the literal translation of the Chinese WALL STICKER in English. It can be said that domestic wall stickers are Chinese VINYL wall art stickers. Wall stickers began to appear on online sales platforms such as Taobao and eBay, and gradually developed into a mainstream wall art type in China. Different from Western VINYL wall art stickers, domestic wall stickers use outdoor self-adhesive materials with great cost advantages, and use computer cutting plotters to cut graphics. Because of the low price of domestic wall stickers, so far, only a few Western VINYL wall sticker manufacturers have entered China. MADE IN CHINA has occupied more than 80% of the Chinese wall sticker market. Brands like space art, etc.

Design style of wall stickers:

Compared with traditional wall art stickers, due to the use of single-piece cutting technology, the stamping mold that must be mass-produced is abandoned. The sticker design style is more diversified. Wall stickers can be processed according to everyone's favorite patterns, and have distinctive D.I.Y. characteristics.

Material characteristics:

The self-adhesive material mainly used in domestic wall stickers is outdoor advertising engraving Paper (post-it notes, universal stickers), brands include Ritz, 333, Plato, Westbrook, BK, etc. Although they are all made of outdoor materials, when decorated indoors, the harm to adults is basically negligible. At present, only a few Western VINYL wall art sticker manufacturers independently develop environmentally friendly materials specifically for wall stickers. Generally, there is a trademark mark of the wall sticker brand on the backing paper. However, the cost is relatively high, generally 3-5 times that of domestic wall stickers.

Adhesive:

IMMOVABLE (non-transferable), the self-adhesive material used in domestic wall stickers is not specially customized for the production of wall stickers, so conventional self-adhesive wall stickers is immovable. Although VINYL wall art stickers use environmentally friendly glue, they still use non-removable glue for the sake of firmness after pasting.