Mail Art

Last week we were given a new brief: to create mail art that will create a network. You can use digital technology to help you but this must not be the sole method of communication. A very open brief.

We had to choose our own groups of three and four and I am with Miriam, Donald and Adam.
We started off this brief with a quick brainstorm and came up with a couple of vague ideas about people sending in barcodes that we could scan with an iphone to find the product and making a typeface using letters that people had edited.

But we felt we needed more inspiration so we headed to what claimed to be the largest stamp shop in the world; Stanley Gibbons.

















We then hopped across the road to another stamp shop. This time filled with half stamps and half doctor who memorabilia. The people who worked there were really friendly and got out some very expensive and rare stamps for us to look at. The man also introduced us to smilers; a sheet of stamps that you can create yourself.