Win One Of 10 Vinyl Design Wall Stickers

1:00PM January 27, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Look around your home: does the same drab colour stare back at you? Does the lack of interesting, engaging artwork drive you to depression and anxiety? Well, as we showed you last week, it doesn’t have to be that way. Australian company Vinyl Designs is partnering with Giz to give away 10 of their retro wall stickers so you guys can create art on your very walls!To enter, all you have to do is tell us which of the Vinyl Design‘s retro designs is the best and why (hit the link to check them out). And to make it interesting, lets have responses in the form of a rhyming couplet.

Entries close 5pm next Monday (Feb 2, 2009) and winners will be announced on the Tuesday (Feb 3).

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Comments

Jack Walsh

January 27, 2009 at 9:35 PM

The rubix cube represents, to me,
what I wish my life could be
neat and matched perfectly
with a mysterious, simple complexity

Unlucky for me, that’s not the way
staring at plain white walls every day
with this rubix cube, I hope I’ll be able to say
that the mismatched patterns of my life will change

To force the point, in addition
I’m severely poverty stricken
because I made the stupid decision
to be a student with a cocaine addiction.

Jordan

January 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM

I’d raise my hand for a floor lamp.
i would sleep next to it and camp.
it will now be mine.
cause your champ.

kc

January 27, 2009 at 10:28 PM

floor lamps, because when you’re poor with no furniture, floor lamps will let you sit in the dark with a little self respect

Shavi

January 27, 2009 at 10:40 PM

I feel this is a test,
But the barcode is the best!
The design is just pure,
It’s more than I can endure,
Not many people may know,
That pacman might kill the show,
A more interesting fact than that,
Is that the barcode is behind a mac!

Adian Evans

January 27, 2009 at 11:02 PM

Lamp, lamp, lamp.
All I want is you.
Stamp, stamp, stamp.
Stick it on, phew!

I’d love to win this prize,
It would really mean a lot.
Make sure you be wise.
And get the post man to stick it in my slot.

jeen

January 27, 2009 at 11:21 PM

I have got a big white wall
and a room of empty space
when my friends video call
I give a closeup of my pimply face

If I stuck some space invaders
from a game that I once played
I’ll might impress my neighbours
and maybe just maybe, get laid

Johnny

January 28, 2009 at 12:02 AM

Tribute to The ‘Falling Blocks”

When the mind is blank,
And to be quite frank.
When I see falling bricks,
My mind simply clicks.
When my mind is in tatters,
Nothing else really matters.
As long as there’s these blocks,
The world around me rocks!!

Aaron Wilson

January 28, 2009 at 9:23 AM

They tricked me one by one
They stripped me one by one
They fixed me one by one
Space Invaders picked me

Jonaye

January 28, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Of all the arcade games around,
Ms Pacman’s where my heart is found.
Id place her close above my bed,
To chase those ghosts from in my head.

Kalem

January 28, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Bar codes are fun
Bar codes make me smile
After I’m scanned
I belong to someone for a while.

Darren

January 28, 2009 at 12:41 PM

I think that it’s obvious the invaders from space,
are the perfect wall decal to brighten up my drab place!

retort

January 28, 2009 at 12:49 PM

squares make up shapes, that drop from the sky
and fall into place, fill gaps where they lie
you hum this sweet tune, a russian folk song
you get all fat pieces, when you really want long

as lines disappear, more shapes come from top
more holes start occurring, getting harder to stop
your building gets higher, becoming less clean
til no blocks can fall, which fills up the screen

the speed is a challenge, and skill is a must
preemptive reflexes,a geometric lust
my mind does rotations, as faster they fall
can i please have tetris, here on my wall?

Steve Ollis

January 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM

A vinyl decal, how much is it worth,
having the colours of Tetris, pacman, a barcode or two
To fill my drab cubespace with some mirth
along with a fake vista of Bamboo.

Graham Jupp

January 28, 2009 at 1:13 PM

The winner no doubt, is Invaders from Space,
but the wife wont agree, “tis not right for our place”.

Now I’m confused, I thought couplet was two
but most entries are longer, aside from a few.

So to be safe, a few lines more,
I’ll speak of my youth, of invaders galore.

Of monotone tubes, with a spattering of green.
a coin sucking monster, a demonic machine.

Don’t dare pull that plug, you’ll lose my high score,
Ten trillion and one or perhaps even more.

’78 was the launch, a very good year,
our dear Tomohiro, we wish you much cheer.

Now, who would have thought that some 30 years on,
The new fashion is vinyl, I thought it was gone.

So ignore my wife’s bitchin’ and adorn my wall,
let me zap those invaders, each three inches tall.

Taylor

January 28, 2009 at 1:44 PM

“Invasion! Invasion!”
My little one cried.
He sat with the remote,
changing channel ’till they died.

“They’re getting faster!”
I exclaimed with glee.
For winning was not as fun,
as pretending could be.

glen kleinig

January 28, 2009 at 2:20 PM

Tetris on my wall? Heck yeah!
All my guests will stop and stare.
Some might ask “What are these shapes?”
To them i say, “You ignorant ape!”

“That’s tetris, yes, a game quite old,
Invented before your head went bald.
So dont insult what you don’t know!
Go learn something at Gizmodo!”

Joe

January 28, 2009 at 2:21 PM

I was hesitant to enter this inter-galactic rhyming competition,
but with a quick glance at the posts so far, I have but a clear mission.
Its to invade this space with a touch of retro rap disposition.
Pac man can get aquatinted with my wall,
for now he will be plastered in a horizontal feeding position.

Shane

January 28, 2009 at 3:28 PM

Space invaders on the wall,
Now who’s the coolest geek of them all?!

Johnny

January 28, 2009 at 4:12 PM

Funky Bubbles on my wall,
What’s the matter with them all?
Some are big and some are small,
Just like that of various balls.
I’m just waiting for them to fall,
But alas, time just seems to stall.

Mick0s

January 28, 2009 at 4:29 PM

In just over a month, I’ll own my own dwelling,
But for the next 30 years, to the bank I’ll be shelling,
Out my hard earned cash, with little to no “thanks”,
Even when I install some rain water tanks.

But, alas, I digress, this rhyming couplet,
Seems to have kicked the proverbial bucket.
Some retro Vinyl Stickers would be just the thing,
Long story short: Tetris, FTW!

PS: My house has the perfect feature wall,
Just begging to be drowned in that cascading block fall!

wyane

January 28, 2009 at 8:01 PM

Mum enters his bedroom to pick up his socks
I go in, turn it down – the ipod it rocks
But then it hits me
The vertigo – I can’t see
Anything around me but Falling Blocks

Andy

January 29, 2009 at 3:04 PM

If video games really influence what children do as adults, then we’d be running around dark rooms and munching pills while listening to repetitive music.

Viva Pac Man!

Tom

January 29, 2009 at 3:13 PM

OH how Tetris will swoon my heart,
My wall and it never shall part…

Tom

January 29, 2009 at 3:18 PM

Not many people realise a couplet is generally acknowledged as two lines ey?

“How I love Tetris falling down my white wall,
thanks to Gizmodo, I can watch the Bricks fall!”

:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

Aaron

January 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM

Invaders on my fridge renews my distress,
reminded each beer grabbed my health does regress.

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