Wall sticker is a new decorative material which originated in France. After printing and machine stamping, you can freely splice dazzling personal artistic taste patterns on walls and various smooth surfaces. Wall art stickers quickly swept the home improvement market with their excellent decorative effects and convenient decoration methods.
The origin of wall painting stickers:
At the end of the 20th century, wall art stickers have become an important decoration method in western countries, and professional decoration effect can be achieved as long as the owners do it themselves (D.I.Y). The application of wall art stickers has gradually become an important feature of western designers' classic decoration works. This new product can be used for any clean, smooth and hard wall or other household products. After the renovation, it not only reflects the owner's taste and interest, but also clearly expresses a way of life. And a variety of design works can completely change the home space such as home area, office area, children's bedroom, children's entertainment room, and add more colors and styles to it. In European and American countries, more and more people use it in bars, restaurants, hotels, offices and various commercial storefront decorations, becoming strong competitors of traditional wallpaper and hollow wall stickers. Wall stickers of well-known foreign brands all use environmentally friendly materials, such as heat-resistant paper, PET, PC, or European soft PVC. After the art pattern is printed, it is stamped and separated by a machine, which becomes the wall sticker we bought in the mall.
Design style of wall stickers:
According to the design style, wall stickers can be divided into two categories: one is the theme pattern, which can be pieced together into the effect recommended by the designer according to the schematic diagram attached to the product, that is, the effect map in the product catalogue of the wall sticker manufacturer, and there is generally only one arrangement; The other is the material pattern, which mainly depends on the creativity of the construction personnel to match the abstract artistic conception. Although the manufacturer's product catalogue also has the function of recommendation, the ever-changing arrangement of possibilities makes this kind of wall art paste become the favorite type of westerners, that is, D.I.Y wall art paste. Material characteristics:
1. Paper wall stickers: embossed wall stickers printed directly on special heat-resistant paper. Features: matt, environmental protection, natural, comfortable and friendly. Because the opaque characteristics limit the design of wall art stickers, the waterproof performance is slightly poor, and it is gradually replaced by transparent paste materials. 2. Paper-backed PET/PC wall stickers: Wall stickers with white silicon paper as the backing and transparent materials such as PET and PC as the surface are widely used. Traditional brands are made in France, wallpal, Plage and walldesign, as well as D-C-FIX in Germany, which cooperates with Brewster in the United States. Features: matt, environmental protection, bright colors, rich patterns, dirt resistance and scrubbing resistance.
Adhesive:
Removable: After the wall painting is pasted on the surface of glass, ceramic tile, wood or metal, when it is removed again, there is no glue residue or damage, but it can be effectively pasted again. Generally, after repeated pasting for more than 5 times, the viscosity begins to weaken. June 2009 5438+065438+ 10 According to the news report of BATIMAT exhibition in Paris, WALL PAL in France has developed a large number of wall art stickers that can be pasted repeatedly.
Wall stickers
-Wall art stickers for the cutting process
Compared with traditional wall stickers, the biggest feature of wall stickers is that they don't need a stamping die, and the manufacturing method is easy to popularize. You can input graphics on the computer and cut them with a cutting machine instead of the bronzing machine used in traditional wall stickers. Domestic wall sticker brands generally use outdoor self-adhesive materials. Due to the rapid popularization of online sales platforms such as Taobao and Yi Bei, "wall stickers" have also become the most widely used reference for wall stickers in China. Since 2007, a large number of wall sticker brands have appeared in China, because the entry threshold is low. Among them, there are love wall stickers, happy wall stickers, Fan Fei wall stickers, Mei Wei wall stickers, Tuoou wall stickers, Huayuan wall stickers, space art wall stickers, Junhui wall stickers, Daubert wall stickers, Mei Ting wall stickers, valente wall stickers, post-80s wall stickers and so on. , has become a leader in the industry, occupying a large market share.
The origin of wall stickers:
The appearance of vinyl wall art stickers
In 2007, in the Villepinte Exhibition Park in the northern suburbs of Paris, Maison &; At the OBJET Paris Home Improvement Expo, vinyl wall stickers (vinyl wall stickers) met the world for the first time. Unlimited cutting process allows people to freely create their own ideas and decorative ideas, making the wall more vivid. In the past few years, in the United States, France, Germany, Britain, Australia and other countries, many suppliers of vinyl wall stickers using cutting technology have emerged. Walls need love, wall friends, vinyl attraction, right on the wall, wall stickers, Dali decals, vinyl wall design, modern wall graphics, wall stickers shops, ETSY, cool art vinyl, rotating collectives, and so on, and so on. These western vinyl wall stickers generally use indoor vinyl material, which is a PVC colloidal decorative material mainly produced in Europe at present. It is a soft indoor PVC and has passed the environmental protection certification of "Certificate T EPD". Processing technology generally adopts high-precision professional cutting machine. This kind of cutting machine is a small amount of customized products from manufacturers such as SUMMA in the United States, which can carve high-precision artistic curves, and the cost is more than 100 times that of computer engraving machines.
The development of Chinese wall stickers
Wall sticker, Van Cleef & Arpels 2007 &; OBJET is a popular new word after the Paris Jiezhuang Expo, that is, a wall sticker translated from Chinese into English. It can be said that domestic wall stickers are vinyl wall stickers made in China. Wall stickers began to appear on Taobao, Yi Bei and other online sales platforms, and gradually developed into the mainstream art type of wall stickers in China. Different from the vinyl wall stickers in the west, the domestic wall stickers use outdoor self-adhesive materials with great cost advantages, and the graphics are cut by computer engraving machine. Because of the low price of domestic wall stickers, so far, only a few vinyl wall stickers from western manufacturers have entered China, and China manufacturing accounts for more than 80% of the Chinese wall sticker market. Brands such as space art.
Design style of wall stickers:
Compared with traditional wall stickers, the design style of wall stickers is more diversified because of the adoption of single product cutting technology and the abandonment of stamping dies that must be mass-produced. The wall stickers can be processed according to the patterns that everyone likes, and have distinct D.I.Y characteristics.
Material characteristics:
The main self-adhesive materials used in domestic wall stickers are outdoor advertising lettering paper (i.e., stickers and universal stickers), and the brands are beneficial to Side, 333, Plato, Vespa and BK. Although they are all outdoor materials, the harm to adults after indoor decoration is basically negligible. At present, only a few vinyl wall stickers from western manufacturers independently research and develop special environmental protection materials for wall stickers, and generally there will be the trademark logo of the wall sticker brand on the backing paper. But the cost is higher, generally 3-5 times that of domestic wall stickers.
Adhesive:
Non-removable, the self-adhesive materials used in domestic wall stickers are not customized for the production of wall stickers, so the conventional self-adhesive wall stickers are non-removable. Although the vinyl wall sticker is made of environmentally friendly glue, it is still made of immovable glue for the firmness after pasting.