One question we get: how do you pick what goes in each month’s Planet Nude Sticker Club mail drop?
The honest answer is: it’s part intentional, part serendipitous, and always thoughtful.
I start by asking myself: what’s missing from the last few months? What theme or feeling haven’t we explored yet? What’s something nobody would expect?
Then I start hunting. I follow independent designers, I reach out to artists in the nudist and body freedom communities, I get recommendations from other members. I look for work that’s genuine, not corporate, not corporate-speak pretending to be body-positive. Work that actually understands what we’re doing: that nudity and body freedom are political and personal, not just aesthetic.
When an artist gets that deeply enough to make something that lands both as legitimate art and as a weird little joy for our community, that’s the collaboration worth making time for. Those are the moments that shape what ends up in the maildrop.
The constraints that shape quality
Here’s where it gets real: I can’t just order 69 stickers from a printer. Minimum orders are usually 100, 250, or 500 depending on the product. So every month, I’m solving a puzzle: how do I work within those constraints and still make each drop feel special?
Sometimes I print 250 postcards and use the extras for announcements. Sometimes I hold back designs until I can pair them with something else. Right now we’ve got some fun stuff lined up, things you haven’t seen in the club yet, but I’m not spoiling those. Part of the joy is not knowing if this month is stickers or a zine or something completely different. Iron-ons, weird little books, things we haven’t even thought of yet. The mystery is part of it.
This is why we cap membership at 100 for now. With 100 members, the math works. More than that, and suddenly the whole thing becomes a logistical grind that kills the joy. The joy is the point.
I also won’t send anything out that I wouldn’t be excited to receive myself. It’s the actual filter. Every drop has to pass it. Some months that means taking risks on new artists. Some months it means something gets commissioned because it doesn’t exist yet. Sometimes I turn down good work from talented people because it’s just not right for this moment.
What membership is
Over time, you’re building a sticker collection through your drops. But what you’re actually building is an archive of decisions: moments where we said yes to something because it was honest, weird, unapologetic, or genuinely beautiful. Months where we turned down the easy choice because it wasn’t good enough.
Your collection is an archive of deliberate choices.
We made a Sticker Book for exactly this: a gorgeous spiral-bound keepsake designed to hold and organize the stickers you receive. Members get it at special pricing.
We’re capping at 100 members because we want to maintain that standard. More members means compromising on curation, and something has to give: quality, or joy, or both. And we’re not interested in finding out which one breaks first.
We’re at around 80 members now, heading toward our year-end cap. You also get access to our member Discord: real spaces to share what arrives, connect with other members, see their collections.
When you join, you’re supporting real work by real artists. You’re also supporting a community of people who actually care about what they receive each month. That’s what membership means. 🐌
