Like Stamp

Back in 2009, when Facebook’s “Like button” was peaking as a piece of cultural shorthand and social media still felt vaguely innocent, I made a rubber stamp of the icon as a joke. A couple of small objects that let you stamp a thumbs-up or down onto anything within reach; a friend’s birthday card, a colleague’s marked-up brief, the back of someone’s hand. It landed: the stamp went viral, orders rolled in from all over.

At some point Zuckerberg’s assistant got in touch and asked for one. We sent it. Months later he turned up on Oprah being interviewed at his desk, and there, sitting next to his laptop in the foreground, was the stamp.

A lot has happened to Facebook since. The stamp, mercifully, has not been updated.