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Wall Decal Production Process

watson — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:41:29 -0800

Here is a short time-lapse video illustrating the manual part of our wall decal production process. Enjoy!

TTC Subway Wall Decal Collection Complete

watson — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:28:19 -0800

I'm happy to announce that we now have wall decal designs for all 69 TTC Subway stops available for purchase in our store! Until now we had been responding individually to customer requests for new station designs, creating them one by one as needed. Well by the time we had had over fifty different designs kicking around, we decided it only made sense to finish off the rest and call the collection complete. So there you have it, the complete collection of Walloper TTC subway station decals:

Toronto Star gets Intimate with Walloper Customer

watson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:26:32 -0700

Nicole Baute from the Toronto Star was nice enough to run a feature on our TTC Wall Decals. She came out to our office and did an interview with us and even went as far as to visit the home of one of our first customers, Mara Samardzic. Cool! Read all about it in the Toronto Star - Stuck on the TTC.

CP24 TV News Coverage

watson — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:12:11 -0700

CityPulse has been running a spot over this past weekend on our TTC Wall Decals that Amber MacArthur was kind enough to come out and shoot with us. Check it out!

Produced by MGImedia for CP24

8 Subway Station Designs Added

watson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:47:23 -0700

I'm happy to announce that today we have expanded our TTC Wall Decals collection yet again, adding 8 of the most frequently requested stations: Sherbourne Station, Sheppard & Yonge Station, Dundas West Station, Lansdowne Station, Chester Station, St.

Open Call for Artists

watson — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:35:56 -0700

In the recent days we have been subject to a flurry of attention from the blogosphere, driving a delightfully varied swarm of people to our website. It has been a real treat interacting with our visitors, talking to people about what draws them to our products and responding to all of the well-wishers.

Lots and lots of parcels

watson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:03:28 -0700

Well we are finally getting caught up with our queue of orders, and today's unusually large stack of parcels for Canada Post is a testament to the fact. It amazes me that just one week ago today we received our first online order, before that our decals were only available to family and friends.

We've had a really great response in the last week and a good volume of orders, which forced us to work in real-time to come up with some standard practices for producing, packaging and shipping our products.

Fun!

New: Pape, Davisville, Ossington, Bathurst, King, Queen

watson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:19:56 -0700

People are asking for new station designs faster than we can make 'em! But not to worry, we are on the job and happily filling requests as they come in.

Today we launch 5 often-requested station designs into to our store: Ossington Station, Queen Station, Bathurst Station, Davisville Station, Pape Station

Get 'em while they're hot!

Giambrone via Torontoist: I'll take Sixteen

watson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:42:32 -0700

It feels like a huge weight has been lifted. For weeks we had been wondering what the TTC's reaction to our subway-inspired wall decals would be. Would they even hear about them? Would they be cool with it, or see it as a threat to their own merchandising efforts?

Walloper got Boing'd

watson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:28:55 -0700

Regardless of who you believe, Boing Boing is one of the most popular blogs on the internet, and one of my personal favourites to boot.

Local Love from the National Post

watson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:03:45 -0700

Yesterday we got a call from Rob Roberts who I believe is the Toronto Editor for the National Post. He saw the press we received yesterday and wanted to setup a telephone interview!

New: Wellesley, Next Station, Northbound / Southbound

watson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:57:36 -0700

We are happy to announce that we expanded our line of TTC Wall Decals in response to consumer demand.

Wellesley Station
Next Station
Northbound - Southbound

As always, if your favourite station is not available simply contact us and we will add it to our ever-expanding collection of subway-inspired designs.

BlogTO and Spacing Features

watson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:56:22 -0700

Today had some awesome surprises in store for us. First thing this morning BlogTO caught wind of our TTC Decals and liked them enough to write a story about us! That's a pretty cool thing to have happen, most of us here at Walloper love BlogTO, I know you can find them at the top of my Google Reader subscription list, so it was a real thrill to get featured on their site.

Announcing Toronto Transit Wall Decals

watson — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:29:58 -0700

Today we opened our store with our very first product, a series of 4 TTC Wall Decals.

Created by Michael Warning, these vinyl cutouts are inspired by the designs of the TTC subway stations from feature the striking relief of the beloved TTC typeface balanced with intricate tile patterns.

Most come in two sizes, large (roughly 4ft x 2ft) and small (2ft by 1ft) and are available in a good variety of colours.