July 6, 2010
Today's stickers form an example of convergent sticker evolution. Both the Ultimate Michigan Fishing and the Bayou Bait and Tackle offer fish-centric designs in the same blue-on-white palette, no doubt to draw the viewer's mind to the water. But their specific treatments of the fish motif differ drastically: in the first, the fish forms part of a twisted-word logo, while in the second, the shark is a mascot, with an all-too-predatory "We're Back" stamped on its side. Together they form an arresting tableau that reminds the careful viewer of the true ways of Nature, red in tooth and claw. And that Ultimate Michigan Fishing site is pretty fantastic if you're gonna fish in Michigan.