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November 28, 2007
Art Gone Postal: The Envelope Collective
We love thinking about handwritten mail as little pieces of traveling art. Whether the art is in the stamps, your gorgeous hand-writing on the envelope, the little doodles you make along the pages of your margins, or your letter is composed out of a collage of cut-outs: the letter can appear in endless forms exposing endless amounts of creativity.
We were psyched to come across The Envelope Collective, a project about envelope art that we just love. Started by two friends, Garrett Miller and Adam Morse, this project is an ongoing experiment in collaborative art using the mail envelope as its medium. The website serves as an online gallery for pieces received and currently contains an extensive (and search-able) gallery of nearly 1,500 envelopes from all over the United States. You can also submit your own envelope art, participate in mail-art related discussions, or just browse through all these gorgeous envelopes and get inspired to make your own.
To participate, just follow these three easy steps:
1. Turn a letter into a piece of art.
2. Put a stamp (or two) on it.
3. Mail it [click HERE the address to send it to]
