Abstract: A method for manufacturing adhesive elements intended to be applied to a three-dimensional surface for the purpose of decorating it involves, starting from a three-dimensional model representing the surface to be decorated and physical references thereof, and a two-dimensional model constituting a projected "image" of the decoration, referencing the two-dimensional model in relation to the references of the three-dimensional model, carrying out projection computations so as to obtain a three-dimensional representation of the decoration referenced on the three-dimensional surface, and carrying out laying-out computations for this three-dimensional representation. Adhesive elements are then obtained by a cutting process driven from the computation data, and the references are marked on at least some of these elements by tracing driven from the data.