Stickers, the creative set: RiskMandate, Web Summit Edition, Lisbon 2026
At Dinis's word, 4 November 2026: "The ones he had are very conservative ... we can actually be super creative here ... ask ChatGPT, because he has a better images model, to go to town on this ... RiskMandate Web Summit Edition ... 2026, kind of like road trip kind of thing ... a set of stickers that people might want to take and put on their stuff ... and even the team might want to put on their laptops." Written by conductor@web-summit.dinis; the four current stickers stay as the "corporate" set (/stickers/).
To try them in ChatGPT: the page to give ChatGPT, one complete prompt per sticker.
The idea
RiskMandate, Web Summit Edition: the road trip. A set that reads like souvenirs from a trip to Lisbon in November 2026, every one carrying one RiskMandate idea (reach, mandate, gap, permission) as a joke a visitor gets in two seconds. Numbered as a collectible series, "1 of 12", so people come back to the stand for the rest.
The rules that keep it ours
- Words, exactly as written below; short (an image model misspells long text; for anything over six words, generate the art without text and set the words in the vector file afterwards).
- The RiskMandate seal is never generated by the model. Leave a clean round space where it goes; the designer places the supplied file (riskmandate.ai/brand) afterwards.
- Colours lead with the brand: green #1A7F5A, ink #161615, warm white #F7F6F2, caution gold #B45309; Lisbon's own colours (azulejo blue, tram yellow, terracotta) as accents.
- No other brand: no Web Summit logo, no third-party marks, no real people. "Web Summit Edition" in words only.
- Positive and clever, never scary. The joke is on agents with too much reach, not on anyone's company.
- Printable as die-cut vinyl: a flat design with a white outline border about 3 mm wide all round (the cut follows it), a plain transparent or white background, no tiny detail under 1 mm, generated at 2048 x 2048 px or larger.
What ProntaPrint Chiswick can print by Friday
From their own pages, read 4 November by the conductor's research: "Stickers on a Sheet", kiss-cut, in circles, rectangles or squares only, on white vinyl (gloss or matt) or matt paper, CMYK, one side; artwork as a CMYK PDF, 3 mm bleed, 3 mm safe zone, 300 dpi, fonts outlined. No custom die-cut, clear or holographic stock is listed there. So for this order every sticker is a circle, square or rectangle: a shaped idea (the pastel de nata, the sardine tin, the stamp) is art inside that shape, on a full-bleed coloured ground, not cut to its outline; the hologram (8) becomes a gold-and-green seal printed on white vinyl. Prompts: replace "thick white outline border ... transparent background" with "full-bleed square (or round) composition, background colour to the edges, important text and faces at least 5 mm inside the edge".
The twelve
| # | Sticker | The joke | Size, shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The road-trip patch | "RiskMandate · Web Summit Edition · Lisbon 2026": a retro travel patch, the bridge and the river, a little green robot in a convertible, holding a map labelled MANDATE | 76 mm round |
| 2 | Tram 28 ticket | A yellow Lisbon tram ticket: "AGENT PASS · VALID WITHIN MANDATE ONLY" | 90 x 45 mm, ticket |
| 3 | Azulejo tile | A blue-and-white Portuguese tile whose pattern is the gap bar: "CONTROL THE GAP" | 60 x 60 mm square |
| 4 | Pastel de nata | A golden custard tart with a tiny green tick: "FULLY AUTHORISED" | 60 mm round |
| 5 | Passport stamp | An entry stamp: "MANDATE APPROVED · LIS · 09-12 NOV 2026" | 70 mm round |
| 6 | Road sign | A triangular warning sign (drawn inside the square) with a robot walking off a cliff edge: "AGENT CROSSING: KNOW THEIR REACH" | 70 mm square |
| 7 | The keys | Our robot holding a huge bunch of keys, sweating: "WITH GREAT ACCESS COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY" | 76 mm square |
| 8 | The seal | A gold-and-green "VERIFIED MANDATE" seal (holographic vinyl is not on Chiswick's list) | 50 mm round |
| 9 | Surf's up | The robot surfing a big Nazaré wave of data, calm: "RIDING THE WAVE, WITHIN MANDATE" | 76 x 60 mm |
| 10 | Hello, my name is | The name-tag classic: "HELLO, MY AGENT'S MANDATE IS ____" with a blank to write on | 90 x 55 mm |
| 11 | Least privilege | Retro "I ♥ LEAST PRIVILEGE" in the 1970s souvenir style | 76 x 40 mm |
| 12 | The sardine tin | A Portuguese sardine tin, each sardine an agent, one tagged in green: "ONE OF THESE HAS A MANDATE" | 90 x 55 mm |
For the team's laptops, the strongest three: 1 (the patch), 5 (the stamp) and 12 (the sardines). For giveaways, all twelve, numbered.
The prompts, ready to paste
Paste the shared start first, then one sticker's line. Ask for four variations; keep the best; ask for the same again "with the words larger and simpler" if any letter is wrong.
Shared start: "Design a die-cut vinyl laptop sticker, flat vector illustration style, bold clean shapes, thick white outline border about 3 mm wide all round the shape, on a plain transparent background, centred, no drop shadow, high contrast, readable from one metre. Palette: deep green #1A7F5A, near-black #161615, warm white #F7F6F2, caution gold #B45309, with Lisbon accents (azulejo blue #1D4ED8, tram yellow #F2C230). No logos, no brand marks, no real people. Text must be spelled exactly as given, in a bold condensed sans-serif."
- "A retro 1970s travel patch, round. Inside: the 25 de Abril suspension bridge over a river at sunset, a small friendly green robot driving a vintage convertible, holding a folded map labelled MANDATE. Around the rim: RISKMANDATE · WEB SUMMIT EDITION · LISBON 2026. Leave a small plain circle at the top for a logo."
- "A vintage Lisbon tram ticket, tram yellow, a small tram 28 drawing at the left, perforated edge. Big text: AGENT PASS. Small text: VALID WITHIN MANDATE ONLY."
- "A single Portuguese azulejo tile, blue and white, ornate border. In the centre, a horizontal bar: the left two-thirds solid green labelled AUTHORISED, the right third striped gold and black labelled THE GAP. Below: CONTROL THE GAP."
- "A golden Portuguese custard tart (pastel de nata), seen from slightly above, caramelised top, with a small green check mark badge on it. Text on a ribbon below: FULLY AUTHORISED."
- "A passport entry stamp, green ink on a transparent background, slightly uneven inked edge, round. Text around: MANDATE APPROVED. In the centre: LIS and 09-12 NOV 2026."
- "A triangular warning road sign, red border, white inside, a simple black pictogram of a small robot walking confidently towards a cliff edge. Below the sign on a plate: AGENT CROSSING. Smaller: KNOW THEIR REACH."
- "A cheerful but sweating green robot with a screen face, holding an enormous ring of keys of every size. Text arc: WITH GREAT ACCESS COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY."
- "A shiny security hologram seal, rainbow foil effect, starburst edge, a green tick in the centre. Text around: VERIFIED MANDATE."
- "A calm green robot surfing a giant wave made of tiny glowing data squares, Nazaré lighthouse in the background, comic style. Text: RIDING THE WAVE, WITHIN MANDATE."
- "A classic red 'HELLO my name is' name tag, but the text reads: HELLO, MY AGENT'S MANDATE IS, with a large white blank space underneath to write in."
- "A retro souvenir bumper sticker: I, a big red heart, LEAST PRIVILEGE, in 1970s rounded type, green and warm white."
- "A vintage Portuguese sardine tin, opened, colourful 1950s label art, the sardines are tiny silver robots, one of them wearing a green tag. Label text: ONE OF THESE HAS A MANDATE."
From image to printer
- Pick the winners (vote on the team's site like the cards).
- The designer agent traces or cleans each chosen image, places the supplied RiskMandate seal where it was left, sets any long text in vector, and draws the cut line (CutContour, its own layer, 3 mm outside the art), as for the four current stickers.
- Export press-ready PDFs (CMYK, 300 dpi at size, 2 mm bleed) and send them with the order (the print order for ProntaPrint).