Take inspiration from Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention and design your unique Stick with SAM stickers for a chance to win exclusive prizes!
The Stick with SAM Design Competition is back for a special edition celebrating the Singapore Biennale 2025: pure intention. We are excited to invite youth and students aged 10 – 25 to showcase their creativity through sticker designs inspired by artworks from the Singapore Biennale!
To participate, download and complete both the Application Form and Design Template.
Category 1 (Aged 10-16)
Nanyang Girls' High School
I used the common theme of fairies, a subject representing wonder and transformation, in many colours to show the pure interest towards artworks that can be found in people. The interaction between the fairies and artworks also reflects how art in recent times can help connect people with their own identity, allowing us to undergo self-realisation within this chaotic world. For example, in the design depicting that of metabolic container, l was interested in how the boxes was structured like a corridor and the boxes gave a sense of nostalgia in me while standing in the structure. Hence, l featured a fairy peeking past the walls of the structure, leading the viewer through the corridor, which represents the past, and towards a bright future ahead, which is shown through the exit shown at the end of the corridor. I hope that these stickers will remind viewers on interacting with these artworks and find that they can be connected to the rest of society through relating with each other through art.
Category 1 (Aged 10-16)
Punggol Green Primary School
This sticker set is inspired by the Singapore Biennale’s theme, ‘pure intention’ and artists’ works. The idea is about being a little kinder to the world and to ourselves, and how doing that can help us find joy in simple ways. Each sticker shows a small and positive intention, like caring for the earth, enjoying quiet moments, or finding happiness through play. Through these stickers, I hope to remind people that even small acts of kindness and joy matter. When we have pure intentions, we can make everyday moments more meaningful and joyful.
Category 1 (Aged 10-16)
Temasek Primary School
On my day at SAM, I decided to create Singapore characters based on David Chan’s hybrid creatures. The three characters are local children enjoying the artworks in the Singapore Biennale.
The first sticker is inspired by Metabolic Container and cloud gazing (americium). In this sticker, my characters are trying to build their own HDB flat using cardboard boxes. I used vibrant clouds in the background to show their playfulness while at work. I decided to drop a few boxes down to show the difficulty in building.
The second sticker is inspired by Khara En Tria (Joyer in 3). A docent at SAM shared with us that the artwork was inspired by Dance by Henri Matisse. I decided to show my characters dancing happily with the inflatables to show their joy and happiness. I have added musical notes and motion lines to show all of them wriggling to songs!
The third sticker is inspired by Theatre-Let Project: Board Game Centre Edition. The characters are creating a giant bowl of Singaporean noodles by throwing ingredients selected using the game. They are using cards from the noodle board game that shares about the most popular types of noodles in Singapore. The fourth sticker is also inspired by the Theatre-Let Project: Board Game Centre Edition. The three characters are exploring Kusu Island and have encountered the Giant Turtle! After a day of exploration and play with the three characters, everyone falls asleep. They are all holding pillows and bolsters inspired by Insomniac States.
Category 2 (Aged 17-25)
Institute of Technical Education, College East
Inspired by Alvaro Urbano's Garden City, the sticker depicts a man-made, artificial version of nature. lt illustrates how Singapore keeps its tropical environment organized. I colored the orchid, roots and stems in metallic tones to highlight the nature as something artificial rather than genuinely wild.
In Paul Chan's Khara En Tria, the inflatable figures transform as air enters and exits them. Full inflation conveys happiness, whereas deflation conveys depression and vulnerability. l used straightforward facial expressions to illustrate this contrast to emphasize how emotions fluctuate with breath and movement.
My sticker is also inspired by CAMP's Metabolic Container. I drew stacked boxes forming a structure with a hollow space in the centre that can be walked through, to show that the container is a space to enter and experience. The box designs reference familiar everyday products to express how ordinary goods are part of global trade and daily consumption.
In response to RRD's stories from Mexico to Singapore, I arranged related objects between Mexico and Singapore on wooden boards. This reflects cultural exchange through food, showing how histories of trade, migration and shared ingredients connect distant places in subtle ways.
Finally, inspired by Seaweed Story, I illustrated the sea of Jeju Island and haenyeo grandmother singing. This reflects the haenyeo community of Hado-ri, whose voices carry histories of sea labour, resistance, and survival. Their song evokes collective memory shaped by colonial exploitation, shared hardship, and solidarity, turning the act of singing into a symbol of resilience rooted in the ocean.
Category 2 (Aged 17-25)
Institute of Technical Education, College Central
I wanted to bring the works to life, gave it some soul by playing around with messy chalk lines. I chose works that caught my eye and seemed interesting. The shapes and forms as well as stories behind them became my source of inspiration for these stickers.
Category 2 (Aged 17-25)
Republic Polytechnic
My sticker designs were inspired by 3 artworks, Square forest, karaoke living room and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever. These artworks generally caught my eye because of their unique stand out looks. Thus the grass cat stickers based of the square forest with its design making it look like it is made up of flora itself, next the karaoke sticker has the furniture seemingly partying showing how an ordinary living room can become a place of self expression and venting and lastly the polar bear sticker relies on the contrast between its swimming and road imagery both suggesting movement in its daily schedule.