So, postcards are not a new concept. You’ve seen them everywhere: gift shops, airports, bookstores. But I find that most of the postcards on the rack are some generic stock photo of the location and then the name of the town across the top or bottom (usually in some outdated font choice).
Sometimes though, you find a gem. And I’ve been on the hunt for well-illustrated postcards everywhere I go. The key is that they’re illustrated and not photographed. These sort of cards appeal the most to my artistic aesthetic and upgrade the cards into something I feel good about putting on my walls.
They’re definitely tougher to find than the usual photographed cards (in one airport, I went to about 5 different gift shops to hunt one down), but they’re totally worth it.
I love collecting postcards especially when I go into a museum and they wont let you take pictures of the paintings.
I think the museum postcards turn out much better than anything I could photograph. 🙂 Postcards are usually so much more affordable too.
what a great tradition
Thanks!!
I love collecting vintage postcards! I traveled around the United States so when I would visit a National Park, I would pick one of their vintage postcards if they had one. My favorite vintage postcard was from Glacier National Park. 🙂
I was at the Grand Canyon in March and bought a whole US Parks set (with 16 cards), so I have one from Glacier Park too. (That’s totally cheating since I’ve never been there) So fun though!