Seattle Times NW Source Featured Daily Find

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 3:41pm

The Seattle Times owned NW Source featured Tacky Smack in their Daily Find section on the Sunday paper! Check out the images at the end of this post to view snapshots of the sweet press coverage, and you can read the article here.

Following is the story as it ran on February 28th, 2010:
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"Tacky Smack's kicky stick-on wall art lets DIY home designers go wild"

Tacky Smack wall art is an easy decorating choice for someone who wants to make a mark on their space, without leaving their mark on it.

Each Tacky Smack wall decal is made from an adhesive vinyl that is more, well, tacky than sticky, allowing intrepid DIY home designers to stick on and peel off these cheerful and cheeky images on any flat surface according to their whims.

Tacky Smack is run by interior designer Tricia Bollen and artist/designer Betsy Morris, along with Bollen's husband Matthew and Web designer Joshua Lind, and was inspired by Tricia and Morris's mutual love of graphics and designs.

"I know what walls need," explains Tricia. "I started imagining wall decals on every surface and really wanted to create a product to go along with that vision. We just started talking about the concept and the whole thing just kind of happened," she says.

Tacky Smack's designs have a sense of humor along with a distinctly modern sensibility. Decals come in up to five sizes and 64 saturated colors. Images range from laptop-sized red lips and a school of goldfish starting at $10 all the way up to a 9-by-10 1/2-foot bamboo thicket mural for $210.

The company offers versatile designs like Doughnuts, Dots or Stars (all $20 each) appropriate for the living room; "Kapow!," a closed fist fighting the power ($20), perhaps for the office; and adorable nursery options like a herd of elephants ($22) and Giraffe Luv ($24) with hearts on the animals' derrieres.

Much of the artwork for Tacky Smack is created in-house by Morris and Matthew Bollen, but the team encourages artists to submit their artwork via their Web site to "get the conversation going," Morris explains.

Guest artists include Yoshiko Oka, whose Japanese-influenced designs are bright and bold; Jeff Larson and Jerry Abstract, who provide a graphic and urban street style; and Jess Thorsen, who adds a little fantasy to the roster with siren-song singing mermaids.

The decals themselves are easy to apply, with a clear plastic transfer tape that acts as a guide and a hard plastic squeegee to smooth out any bubbles. The site features a helpful how-to video for visual learners.

Pick out your Tacky Smack at Retrofit Home or online at www.TackySmack.com.

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The above image was on the front page of the NWSource site