As a designer I'm a huge fan of stationary and good quality illustration. When I was traveling earlier this year I decided it was the perfect time to send letters or postcards to people I love.
Whenever I saw a stationary store or a wall of postcards inside a museum store I stopped for about 30 minutes to find the perfect postcard -traveling alone was great for postcard scouting, because not everyone likes to stay that much time in that particular activity-.
The perfect postcard for me was one with a good and/or clever illustration that showed something about the city or country that I was visiting. Sometimes when I felt sentimental or I found a clever -non cheesy- postcard that reflected my feelings I bought it as well, but I prefer illustrations better.
The big task was to find a post office to buy a stamp and to figure out how to write the address of the recipient. Yes, the address thing is something that I had to learn.
For example; to write a letter to Chile goes like this:
Señor(a), Señorita -whatever- Name of the recipient
Street, number, apt.
Zip code, suburb, district
City, CHILE
For England;
Sr, Miss, Mrs -whatever- Name of the recipient
number, street
city, UK
zip code
ENGLAND
For Australia;
Sr, Miss, Mrs -whatever- Name of the recipient
unit/street number, street name
suburb, zip code
area, city
AUSTRALIA
So I encourage you to send postcards whenever you're traveling, because we will always have emails, whatsapp, kik, snapchat, instagram, facebook -you name it- to send a message or share a photo but an analogue message sometimes makes the difference.
And of course whenever you're traveling money really counts but there's always a little saved to send love.
XX
Carolina.
