"Postcards" Blogs & Blog Posts

These old fashioned lovers' postcards are as weird as they are wonderful. They were created by Bernhardt Wall in the early 20th century and feature various fruits and vegetables with human-like faces on them. They all come with cute and corny sayings...

Take a look at these fantastic vintage optical illusion skull postcards. These macabre beauties are from the early 1900s and all depict skulls with people woven into the imagery. The people in the images are often placed so that their heads are in a...

In the past five days, I’ve gotten roughly 300 emails from various big brands I once-upon-a-time bought something from—and also a bunch that I’ve never even considered giving money to. (Whoever put me on the marketing list for Royal Caribbean C...

Some families are Greeting Card Families—that is, when an occasion rolls around, be it yearly (birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and the like) or a milestone (graduation, wedding, new home, etc), the cards flood the mailbox. As a member of a Gree...

Scientists in Japan developed a method to freeze dry mouse sperm on sheets of specially-prepared paper. The sheets are stored in a "sperm book" and the samples could then be removed and attached to a postcard for mailing. The technique enables the sp...

Best of 2020: Non-Canadian Albums [61-70] The post Best of 2020: Non-Canadian Albums [61-70] first appeared on PhotogMusic.

Visionaries Mark Mothersbaugh and Beatie Wolfe have a request: Please send hand-decorated postcards STAT. Their mail-art challenge, Postcards for Democracy, is described as "a demonstration to support the 225 yr old U.S. Postal Service & the righ...