90% of the time, the internet seems like a great idea. Other times, not so much. Not for what it is, precisely, but rather for what it replaces.
Exhibit A: Letter-writing. Much has been made over the decline of formality and care that has accompanied the rise of email. Fine, agreed. But what about the craft of writing itself? And, more importantly, the delightful accessories that made it an artful process rather than just a matter of conveying data?
An insistence on the magic of pen and paper is what gives Enormous Champion’s whale letterpress cards their charm. Six cetaceous buddies are printed on cards ripe for scribbling cheery missives (above left), though any one of the prints is fine enough to frame and hang.
There’s also the San Francisco-based outfit Yellow Owl Workshop, which produces achingly beautiful materials fit for all kinds of correspondence by hand. The Imperial Correspondence Set (above right) looks like something Max might have dreamed up if he’d decided to stay in the land of the Wild Things––a perfectly boyish set on which to dash off notes back home. The kit includes a crest to customize and a cherry-red pencil for mark-making; the comprehensiveness of the set is a sweet homage to the act of writing a letter.
Email can’t touch this!
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