Believe it or not, we still get physical mail here in the design office — and some of it is pretty cool. Here are a few pieces we can’t part with. (That “Jake” in the center is by illustrator Jeff Canham)
Whether it’s collage, hand-type, illustrated stationery, or just fancy labels, we love it all. The range of personalities landing in our mailboxes adds to the fun. For example, the quiet envelope from designer Katie Hamburger, the found material and stamp-obsessed envelope by Alyson Kuhn, and the tiny and lovely envelope by British illustrator Sally Faulkner.
Writer Alyson Kuhn (below) is not the only stamp-crazy one…
…Photographer Susie Cushner (below) also shares the appreciation.
It seems everything that San Francisco design firm PUBLIC turns in to us is beautifully rendered and polished to a fine shine. The same holds true for their mail correspondence. You gotta respect consistency.
The hand-lettered mail by Los Angeles artist and illustrator Travis Millard couldn’t be more different. His style is loose and playful, with a great sense of humor. Sure enough, he was the perfect illustrator for Farts (though his talents extend well beyond toilet humor!)
Like our fellow designer Kristen Hewitt, who wrote about the neat handmade cards mailed and given to her, we too are very grateful to receive these visual treats — even if they’re delivering invoices.
— Suzanne & Jake
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I love receiving physical mail. Such a rare thing these days.
I wish I received such fun mail at my work!
This was such a unique post….about “post”…as they would call it in India. Colorful snail mail is a rarity nowadays…and reading and seeing all the prettiful pics made me want to mail myself a letter…..
I love it. I still have wonderful decorative envelopes that friends sent me during the 80s! Cherished items.
We receive mostly junk mail. Lovely to see that some people take the time to make something so ordinary into something extraordinary.
I think these are wonderful. The postman arriving used to be something to get excited about, now it’s generally bills. I think we should all start writing more letters and sending more parcels and write less emails (and comment less on blogs ;-) )
Very cool. I do love mail art! So much better than email, eh?
These are lovely! Hurray for creative snail mail.
what a great collection. mail is so beautiful.
I absolutely love all of them. I would be ecstatic to get such mail in my box!
I make handmade cards for people all the time, usually for birthdays or when they are sick. You idea of including the envelope as partof the message is an excellent idea
They are beautiful! Nice idea include the envelop like a message, yes! I do it my own postcards with wood (I sell them too) with my own photographys, pictures from around the world. Depending on which person I send the postcard, I choose the photography. I started doing this for my friends and then then I thought it might be a good idea to do it so that people could buy them. If you want see them you can visit http://www.coscoxo.com or http://www.coscoxo.tumblr.com
i would to visit victoria australia one day 8) but so far i have a pen pal in victoria australia
i would like to make one of those envelop but i dont know how