Hightide New Retro Die-Cut Stickers

Hightide’s New Retro Die-Cut Stickers are cut to the exact outline of the thing they depict, which sounds like a small distinction until you see the alternative. Each design is a single object rendered in the flat, faintly nostalgic style of mid-century Japanese printing — a dumpling, a shiba inu, a sleeping bag with someone still in it. Printed on Yupo, a synthetic sheet that treats water as someone else’s problem.

Each one lifts from its backing in a single piece, with a faint waxy smoothness to the surface that ordinary paper stickers never manage. Then comes the harder part, which is deciding where it goes. A laptop lid is, after all, a modest sort of autobiography.

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