A bumper sticker is an adhesive label or sticker designed to tướng be attached to tướng the rear of a siêu xe or truck, often on the bumper. They are commonly sized at around 25.4 centimet by 7.6 centimet (10 in by 3 in) and are typically made of PVC.
Bumper stickers serve various purposes, including personal expression, promotion, humor, or political activism. They encompass commercial, religious, secular, and sports-related themes, allowing individuals to tướng showcase affiliations or tư vấn for various causes, regions, or groups. While they are widely used in the United States to tướng display political tư vấn during elections, their prevalence is comparatively lower in countries lượt thích the United Kingdom.
Before the emergence of bumper stickers, advertising took various forms, including horsefly nets, metal or cardboard bumper signs, and window shield decals. The advancement of fluorescent inks during World War II and the accessibility of pressure-sensitive and adhesive materials in the post-war period played a significant role in the development and widespread adoption of bumper stickers.
Purpose[edit]
Bumper stickers can be commercial, religious, secular, humorous, or in tư vấn of a sports team or other organization. They may promote or oppose a particular philosophical or political position. In some countries, such as the United States, bumper stickers are a popular way of showing tư vấn for a candidate for a government seat and become more common during election years. In others, such as the United Kingdom, they are rarely seen in any sườn.
One variety of bumper stickers is the country tag. This is typically used for cars crossing international borders, and is overseen by the United Nations as the Distinguishing Signs of Vehicles in International Traffic, being authorized by the UN's Geneva Convention on Road Traffic (1949) and Vienna Convention on Road Traffic (1968). Often the country code is displayed on the license plate itself.
These have (usually in the United States) been appropriated into tags indicating a country with which the driver affiliates, or more humorously to tướng indicate things lượt thích a region (OBX), tư vấn for rabbit rescue groups (BUN), etc.
People who opt to tướng exhibit their individuality through these decals may take part in more acts of road rage. Colorado State University social psychologist William Szlemko found that aggressive driving is linked to tướng the number of markers a person has on their siêu xe, regardless of the messages portrayed.[1]
Application and removal[edit]
Early bumper stickers had printed directions on the back removable liner for applying them to tướng the bumper of a siêu xe.[2] Due to tướng the movement of the vehicle and changing weather conditions, the sticker needed to tướng adhere well to tướng the bumper surface.
There are some "easy to tướng remove" bumper stickers and magnetic bumper stickers. Bumper stickers can be removed with a razor blade, penetrating oil or a heat gun. trang chủ remedies also include using common household items, such as WD-40 or paint thinner.
History[edit]
Before bumper stickers, advertisers used other methods of displaying their wares. In the horse-drawn carriage era, advertisers printed on horsefly nets with the name of a business.[3] In the 1930s and 1940s, bumper signs were printed on metal or cardboard and wired to tướng the chrome bumpers.[4] Lester Dill, promoter of Meramec Caverns in Missouri, was an ardent adopter of the bumper sign to tướng attract motorists to tướng his site.[5] Using a windowshield decal was another option. These paper strips could be wetted and placed inside a siêu xe window.[3] However, these strips did not hold up well when placed on a bumper.
Various factors contributed to tướng the development of the bumper sticker. Developments in material manufacturing during World War II led to tướng the widespread use of daylight fluorescent inks, which were invented by Bob Switzer and his brother Joe. These inks appeared to tướng glow during the daytime and were useful to tướng tư vấn various wartime activities[further explanation needed]; they were favored by early bumper sticker manufacturers after the war. In addition, the first commercially produced pressure-sensitive stickers appeared after World War II; new developments in adhesive materials led to tướng the production of paper strips with adhesive on the back.[6] In addition, increased use of vinyl by the general public after World War II led to tướng the eventual use of this material in bumper stickers.[clarification needed][citation needed]
Many experts credit Forest Phường. Gill, a silkscreen printer from Kansas City, USA, as the developer of the bumper sticker.[7][8] Gill recognized that the self-adhesive paper used during the second world war could be used to tướng advertise promotional products in the late 1940s and beyond.
Early widespread uses of the advertising bumper sticker were for tourist attractions, such as Marine Gardens, Florida, Seven Falls, Colorado, Meramec Caverns in Missouri, and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. Another popular advertisement was the "See Rock City" sticker. In the 1940s and 1950s, visitors to tướng the site had a sticker applied to tướng their siêu xe, which duplicated the famous signs painted on the roofs of barns throughout the southeastern USA. Tourist attraction staff would circulate through the parking lot, applying the promotional sticker to tướng every siêu xe.
The first documented presidential election that used adhesive bumper stickers in political campaigns was the 1952 election between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson II.[9] Bumper stickers allowed citizens to tướng show tư vấn for a candidate while still maintaining some anonymity.
Bumper stickers have caused legal issues between people and states. In 1989, a man with a bumper sticker containing indecent wording was convicted.[10] The man's conviction was reversed in Cunningham v. State (1991). The court referenced the First Amendment, stating "the provision regulating profane words on bumper stickers reaches a substantial amount of constitutionally protected speech and unconstitutionally restricts freedom of expression".[11]
Around the world[edit]
Considerable variation exists around the world as to tướng the context and purpose of stickers.
On some vehicles, some stickers are lượt thích trophy signs of World War II aeroplanes, either of locations visited or actions completed.
They have also been extensively applied to tướng rear windows as well, where legislative measures have not banned such use. For instance, in Sweden, this is the normal place to tướng put them; bumper stickers are referred to tướng as "bakrutedekal" in Swedish, meaning "rear window decal".
More recently,[when?] bumper stickers have become a route for advertising and a few companies offer to tướng match siêu xe owners to tướng advertisers willing to tướng pay for the ad.
"Shirat Hasticker" ("The Sticker Song") by Hadag Nachash is an Israeli tuy nhiên composed entirely of bumper sticker slogans.
Variants of the bumper sticker have developed in recent years,[when?] including vinyl decals meant to tướng be applied to tướng a car's rear windshield, and chrome emblems to tướng be affixed to tướng the body toàn thân of the siêu xe itself, generally on the rear (the "Jesus fish" and its "Darwin fish" counterpart are popular examples).
License plate frames and vanity plates can serve a similar purpose to tướng bumper stickers, although the law may place restrictions on messages they display.
Gallery[edit]
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Bumper sticker supporting the 1976 Gerald Ford presidential chiến dịch.
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Bumper sticker with a Sinclair Lewis quote on a bicycle
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Country tag for Switzerland.
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The rear of a Nissan Versa displaying many bumper stickers.
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A Chevrolet Nova plastered all over with bumper stickers
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A Ford Escape with bumper stickers.
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Bumper sticker supporting the 2008 Obama-Biden presidential chiến dịch.
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See also[edit]
- Country tag
References[edit]
- ^ Vedantam, Shankar (2008-06-17). "Sign of road rage may be on bumper". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
- ^ Baker, Whitney (2011). "Soapbox for the automobile: Bumper sticker history, identification, and preservation". Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals. 7 (2): 251–270. doi:10.1177/155019061100700302. hdl:1808/9874. S2CID 110814097.
- ^ a b Schwab, Armand (1952). "Bumpers tell tourist's story". The Thành Phố New York Times. No. June 15. pp. X13.
- ^ "A million a month! Screen processed bumper strips developing into big business". Screen Process Magazine (February): 26. 1953.
- ^ "Discover the history of the caverns". Meramec Caverns. America's Cave.com. 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ Levine, Richard (2013). St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Detroit: St. James Press. pp. 456–457.
- ^ Pechuls, Anne (2003). "Forest Phường. Gill: Responsible and dependable". Promotional Products Business (April).
- ^ Kennedy, Pagan (2012). "Who made that bumper sticker?". The Thành Phố New York Times Magazine. No. September 12. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ^ Hanners, David (2000). "Candidates no longer favor bumper stickers; contenders prefer to tướng spend their money on other ways . . ". No. September 24. Contra Costa Times. pp. A20.
- ^ "Lewd Bumper Stickers Upheld in Georgia". The Thành Phố New York Times. Associated Press. 1991-02-25. Retrieved 2021-12-18.
- ^ Hudson, David (2009). Encyclopedia of the First Amendment. Washington D.C.: CQ Press. ISBN 978-0-87289-311-5.
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