Stick Together was a group exhibition presented by You Are Beautiful and the Design Museum of Chicago in 2026 celebrating the humble yet impactful art of stickers. The exhibition explored how this small format has long served as a powerful tool for self-expression, communication, activism, humor, and connection. 60 artists were invited to contribute a design to the collection. I was one of them.
Photo from You Are Beautiful
Photo from You Are Beautiful
Process video of the creation of the content for the Stick Together flower heart sticker
Photo from the Stick Together Exhibit at the You Are Beautiful showroom.
Photo from the Stick Together Exhibit at the You Are Beautiful showroom.
Photos from the Stick Together Exhibit at the You Are Beautiful showroom.
Photos from the Stick Together Exhibit at the You Are Beautiful showroom.
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Client: Design Museum of Chicago / You Are Beautiful
Project Type: Limited Edition Sticker Design
Series: Stick Together Group Exhibition (1 of 60 Artists)
Year: 2026
Medium: Pressed wildflowers, moss, photography, digital design
Exhibited: Design Museum of Chicago, opened September 12, 2026
Project Brief: Create an original sticker design for a group exhibition celebrating the sticker as a tool for self-expression, communication, activism, humor, and connection.
Artist Statement: There is something quietly joyful about receiving flowers. This sticker is a small celebration of that feeling, of nature, of care, of the beauty that grows all around us if we slow down enough to notice. All flowers are pressed and arranged by hand.
Presented by: You Are Beautiful and the Design Museum of Chicago -
When deciding what to design for this project, my thoughts gravitated toward a heart shape. I believed it embodied what the show was actually about: community and the positivity that comes from sharing a simple sticker. For me, a heart was the perfect way to symbolize both my love for Chicago's design community and the fact that sharing a heart is exactly what you do with a sticker. You share it for someone else to carry.
The design constraint was 2" max in either direction. That size is perfect for a sticker, but not for what I had planned. A heart proportional enough to hold real, dense materials wasn't going to work in that space. So I scaled way up and built the template at 24"x18", the same 4:3 ratio as the finished sticker. This was the perfect size to fill with pressed wildflowers that I had gathered around Chicago. Shooting that large meant the flowers stayed rich and distinct once the image scaled down to size.
There's something quietly joyful about receiving flowers and that's exactly what this sticker is. A small celebration of that feeling: of nature, of care, of the beauty that grows all around us if we slow down enough to notice. Every flower is pressed and arranged by hand.
I love that my personal work has almost nothing to do with a computer. Working with real materials, flowers, moss, my own hands, connects me back to myself in a way screen work doesn't. It's a more fulfilling way to make something, even at 2 inches wide.
You can get the sticker here >
