An Undercover give away
We love the WeAreAiko goodies on the Undercover website, so we put the word in and they kindly agreed to give us five limited edition prints to offer up to randomly selected readers who leave a message below this post telling us why they have to (yes, just have to!) own one. So, to enter, go to the Limited Edition Print section of the Undercover website, scroll down to the ‘love4everyone’ exhibit, and nominate along with your entry which print you want. The WeAreAiko prints are the work of former advertising director Niko Stumpo, whose ‘universe is inhabited by unique abstract cartoon-like drawings’. They’re damn cool. Entries close Dec 12. Could make a very nice Christmas prezzie.
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YOU'RE SAYING (31)
Aroha said | 21 November, 2007
I need one PLEASE!!! I know begging is pathetic but I dont have anything interesting to say!!!
andy p said | 21 November, 2007
i’d love to have one to show my students a great example of illustration
Dale Hutton said | 21 November, 2007
at the moment my world is inhabited with papers that i must study for my Entomology exam (who cares about allozyme eloctrophoreses anyway?) But ya i love to own such prints to splash some new life into my academic rut!
Goodness gracious i love you guys and all the stuff you do is just supercalafragilisticexpialadocious!
peace out!
Jon K said | 21 November, 2007
Awesome images feels new and different makes you want expand your creative juices.
Great work keep it up lookforward to seeing it on the slops and in the cities.
Because we dig Aiko.
bethy said | 22 November, 2007
i’ve just moved into a brand spanking new apartment in london.
it’s frickin awesome – great space, great lighting, great to come home to.
….’cept that all the walls are disturbingly, painfully, devastatingly bare.
please help.
Jads said | 22 November, 2007
…I’m an Organisational Psychologist and work in that dreary place called “the corporate world”.
I have a big office that I sit in all on my own all day (your own office is s’posed to be a reward in these parts…???), the walls are beige – no pictures allowed, the view out my window is simply of more grey, tired, characterless buildings.
I have to wear a suit (code for ‘uniform’) to work each day, which means I am usually draped in black, charcoal, or some other muted tone.
If it wasn’t for the good work I do everyday, I would think to myself “I don’t quite fit here”. You see, I have a little sunshine in my belly 
I’m a bright, colourful person my own home is splashed with art and colour. My “real” wardrobe (and life in general) comprises every shade of the rainbow and makes me feel radiant, vibrant and happy
How it would warm my heart to have something as bright and bold as a WeAreAiko peice on my office wall
If I win, I would LOVE the Dead Horse 2 print it would knock the socks right off of my black & white, suited up colleagues & clients
Long live yellow
xox
Asi said | 22 November, 2007
I really HAVE to HAVE one becasue if I will HAVE one I will HAVE endless happiness.
I will also HAVE joy. And a song in my heart.
I will HAVE impressed my guest with this really kick-ass print that I really HAVE to HAVE.
Please can I HAVE one.
A.
jesse said | 22 November, 2007
I only wear black and its starting to get me down. some colour would be nice please.
Nathan W said | 22 November, 2007
Would love to have “seek&destroy… 1″ for a friend to suppress my guilt of 16 years.
Ive been staring at my mates walls with great guilt for the past 16 odd years.
Being a kid who found a safety pin at a mates house when they were babysitting me, I discovered it would leave marks on the wall when used with the pointy bit. It was a massive blank and boring wall, so I done what any kid would do… try decorate it. Problem is the parents did not appreciate my artistic endeavors and I’m pretty sure I got some serious heat for it.
The walls have since been painted over but there are still remnants of sailing boat etchings from the peak of my artistic career. My friend and I aren’t quite the sailing types, but I do believe were were quite the abnormal behavior children.
Simone said | 22 November, 2007
Dreamers 3 rocks. I’d love it for my boudoir to lull me in to a lovely sleep each night 
Theo said | 22 November, 2007
I want one because they are the shizzle!! Australia’s answer to Kinsey. I love the ‘Massive’ print.. baby blue goin owwwn…..
cheers
T
mark said | 22 November, 2007
I want deadhorse. It reminds me of the early 90s Texas hardcore band of the same name.
andrea said | 23 November, 2007
i’m in love with “tocame3″
toronto winters suck and some splash of colour could really cheer me up.
Ian said | 23 November, 2007
If to win i would pick ‘dreamers… 2′. i think would be a great ‘moving in’ present to my girlfriend and would look great on the wall in our place together. Plus we’re both dreamers and big kids at heart so that images totally sums us up! :]
junli said | 23 November, 2007
doodle little star is my pick! i love the randomness!! bits and pieces that eventually come together to make it whole! i like..
xa said | 23 November, 2007
i’ve just spent the day culling toys from my 3 year old daughters room, i think ‘dreamers… 2′ would be a great christmas present this year!!
it’s never too early to start art collections.
cynthia silvestri said | 23 November, 2007
if i don’t get one of these, i won’t be able to get the operation. and then my kidney will fall out. and it will be your fault. and i will be forced to send my ninja assasasins to kick the ever-loving crap out of you. and then you will sue me. and i will lose. and i will be forced to declare bankruptcy because i can’t afford to compensate you for your missing arm. then i will be forced to start robbing liquor stores. and i will trip on something during my first attempt, crack my head on the ground and pass out, and then get caught. and then i will go to prison. and there will be big burly women there that will want me for their lipstick lesbian bride, except we will be in prison, and there won’t be any lipstick. i will have to break out of prison, and go into hiding in the woods. and then i’ll get eaten by a bear.
it would just be so much easier if you gave me a frickin print.
carolyn walsh said | 23 November, 2007
please. i love all of them so much, their absoutly savage! please give me 1… i dont care which 1, their all unique in, also another reason i think u sud give one to me is that i myself am a poor, striving artist, who cant afford to poop, so i definatly cant afford to buy art, my biggest passion ever! how sad is that? go on……..
cynthia silvestri said | 24 November, 2007
woops – forgot to say – Doodle Little Star pleeeeaase
(look up)
matty said | 24 November, 2007
so my girlfriend will love me more. i liked to be touched.
tocame 1
Emilie said | 24 November, 2007
becoth it will tho fiit in with my colour thceme in my room.
and because my cat needs something that inspires him as well as me.
Jamie said | 26 November, 2007
dreamers 3 is awesome cos its spellbinding effect makes me want to float away too….
(perfect for sleepy time in the bedroom)
but i would also love to own dead horse 2 b/c who wouldn’t want to have an oompah loompah boombah horse on their wall?
Sheah said | 26 November, 2007
After years of being at the mercy of fat, angry landlords who tell me I can’t have a dog, I don’t mow the lawn enough, no smoking inside, clean that oven, etc etc, etc, I have scrimped and saved and denied myself any social life in order to finally be able to purchase my own place. I AM FINALLY FREE to paint the walls any damn colour I want, to rip down those apalling curtains, to build shelving anywhere i choose……and so I would dearly love to celebrate my freedom with the beauty of a glorious WeAre Aiko print……..in particular Sweets….2
Thanks for listening
Sheah
gg said | 27 November, 2007
I’d love one of the Tocame series…
as I’ve always loved the cute little lips on the charaters.
And I just HAVE to see them everyday hanging out in my room.
e.h. said | 27 November, 2007
WHY do i have to own one of these amazing weareaiko prints??? what a goshdarn ridiculous question! To convey my intense desire for just one of these effin’ sweet prints is almost close to impossible. i love practically ALL of them. but here goes: sweets 3 vs. doodle little star .
SHOW DOWN.
i love all the sketchy, scrappy, colour-feeling i get from doodle little star, but sweets 3 is like candy popping in all the lobes of my brain, except for my frontal lobe because i’m not sure how i would connect it with the utter goodness of weareaiko-love-prints. but…i must choose between the two. damn. i HAVE to go with DOODLE LITTLE STAR. the whole image is …
POP . STREET . SUGAR .
i don’t know how to look at it without having that warm, fuzzy ball of HAPPY rub up against my heart.
SO. why do i HAVE to own this print? because it’s my soulmate.
and also because my walls are so freaking white and bare and i’m just so darn lazy that i won’t do anything about it until i get my hands on a delicious print such as the one i wish to receive from WEAREAIKO. . . and i need some SWEET printage to cover up the UGLY.
yep. and then all of my dreams will have come true! [maybe.]
giraffe said | 28 November, 2007
Why do I have to (yes, I have to!) own doodle little star?
Here’s why, in haiku form (made just for you, you lucky kids):
I love it so much
I would waste time writing a
haiku for it (meep!)
And I’ll write another one too if I win it! Come on, you know you want to…you can’t resist the haiku! (wow, look at that–I just rhymed too!)
Jess said | 2 December, 2007
I would absolutely love “doodle little star!”
Victoria said | 6 December, 2007
I would like one – although I never seem to win anything so here’s to yet another dissapointment. But I guess it was worth a shot.
Matthew said | 7 December, 2007
Right now I am picturing your agony reading every single response to this competition. I wanted to empathise with you. I read them all too.
Undercover agency are amazing. I love the integration of type into their simply perfect compositions. If I didn’t work in a little cafe as something close to slave labour, I would already own one of these. Pity that I do, and this is my only opportunity of getting one until I am about forty years older with a pension.
Which would I love to own? I’d love ‘smelly finger’ so much. I would knock down my parents’ house and live in the print if I could, but instead, if I won, I would simply put it on my wall and admire it for 43 minutes each day.
If I get one I’ll give you a dollar. That’s like a weeks wages. Please?
Zolton said | 13 December, 2007
Hey guys, great entries! Thanks to you all. The three winners are Victoria, Carolyn and Matthew. Please email me with your contact details: zolton [@] lostateminor.com
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Tim said | 20 November, 2007
I have to have one ’cause who can’t love a floatin cat?
Oh, and Flo & Aja have two…
T