Meet Daisy Acosta

Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Daisy Acosta. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Daisy, so excited to have you with us today. So much we can chat about, but one of the questions we are most interested in is how you have managed to keep your creativity alive.

I am a collector as much as I am an artist. I collect souvenirs from trips, mementos of a random Sunday afternoon and figurines that look like my cats. I hold onto memories, gluing them within my never ending piles of scrapbooks and turning nothing into something. On the walls hang carefully curated framed pieces: a print picked up at a local art market, a coaster from a Mexican restaurant, a luchador themed postcard from Austin. I have three shelves above my desk where an army of knick-knacks and trinkets live, each hand placed with intention. My room resembles a miniature museum of all my previous experiences and bits of life I found enough fascination in to take home with me. It seems a tiny bit wacky writing it all down like this but a huge part of my creative process stems from this yearning to collect and display. I like creating art that I would want to pick up from some place somewhere and I feel that is why the majority of my work comes off as very playful and light hearted. There’s a certain linger of humor in everything I collect and that is something I try do with my own sticker and print designs. Surrounding myself with both art from artists that inspire me as well as snippets from my life that brought me joy is what keeps my creativity alive and my eyes open for more.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

My name is Daisy and I am the tiny person behind my art brand, tiny yellows. I am currently a graduate student at the Savannah College of Art and Design studying themed entertainment design in hopes of expanding tiny yellows into an all around practice focusing on art and design in the future. While not in school, I run an online sticker shop and a fairly new snail mail club, a subscription based community where I design and mail out an exclusive sticker and print design to anyone who signs up. These two endeavors have grown fairly fast recently. This year, I reached 1400+ sales on my shop and 290+ members (as of October 2025) in mail club after only two months since announcing it. This sudden growth in both was very surprising to me. In its earliest stages, I’ve always been a tiny bit apprehensive about my art career and I had various lingering moments of imposter syndrome. But after meticulously planning and successfully launching my mail club, it solidified that there is an audience for my art – I just needed to find them. There is something so precious about creating something personal to you and having people all over the globe excited to receive it. I also vend at in-person art markets throughout the year and I love meeting creatives at the market as well as people who appreciate art. I have two cats and my art very much shows that. I am excited about the future of tiny yellows and I can’t wait to see what I else can accomplish in the future.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

While I still feel like I am early in my own journey, there are certain qualities I have picked up that stick out: the ability to be a storyteller, the ability to adapt and the ability be curious. I could not imagine my life without the skill of sketching, even if it sometimes looks like meaningless lines and scratches. I always carry a small sketchbook with me and draw anything that comes to mind. Those pen scribbles are my interpretation of my own thoughts and the ability to then translate those thoughts into something real is crucial to my creative journey. I was trained in architecture school for my undergraduate and it taught me graphic design, marketing, illustration, ethics – quite literally everything. I learned about so many modes of how to visually communicate my ideas in a way to share with the rest of the world.
Even though I enjoyed studying architecture, I realized that there were only certain aspects of the industry that I liked and I was able to shift my focus onto another career. I think being able to recognize when change is needed is crucial and acting on that inkling of a feeling is scary. But what is even more scary is the idea of being stuck. I had only begun selling my art in person a year prior and have already felt so much growth in the way I view my art and how I perceive myself as an artist. I realized I have a certain “do it yourself” eagerness about myself that pushes me to stay curious and to keep learning new skills.

Is there a particular challenge you are currently facing?

I wish I owned Hermione Granger’s time-turner. My to-do list keeps growing with endless hobbies and design tasks and I’m a bit naive in attempting to take it all on at once. Deciding to go back to school, especially an art school, was a decision I didn’t make lightly. I knew by committing to a new education that I would be sacrificing time for my personal art and life. I am currently in a circus balancing act between switching to a new industry (architecture to themed entertainment), growing tiny yellows and making time for my other hobbies such as learning new art mediums or watching a film. I have definitely felt overwhelmed more times these past months than I have my entire life and there were points where I questioned being able to be handle everything. While I have been able to calm the situation down a bit through heavy organization and learning when to say no, I realized how important it is to have a support system to fall back on when it gets to be too much. I am so appreciative of my boyfriend and his calm demeanor whenever I seem to panic. During my anxiety ridden moments, he has taught me so much about learning how to listen to my mind and not get overwhelmed about art related stress because in the end, the journey is supposed to be fun. Having him by my side during this transition period has made me realize that my creative curiosity needs to be explored in parts, not at all at once.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://etsy.com/shop/tinyyyellows
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/tinyyellows
• Other: https://patreon.com/tinymailclub