6 April 06

Designing for Post Office Requirements

I attended a class this morning: Mail Design 101. It was the last thing I wanted to do. We had our first sun in days and our classroom had no windows. It’d be more interesting to watch paint dry anyway, I thought. Still, I enjoyed my bike ride onto campus.

For someone who spends a lot of time online I do seem to send a lot of mail that involves a stamp, or several. Turns out I’ve been slowing myself down a bit, or the mail I send out.

I will not entirely give up my calligraphic envelopes with wavy lines that might be illegible to young post delivery people who’ve never learned how to write cursive, never mind OCRs. But I won’t expect them to get anywhere in two days. Now I know why. Anything lumpy, anything that sloshes around, anything non-standard goes in the “non-automated” pile, where it languishes.

Much more fun this afternoon was working on design ideas for bookmarks and wallet cards featuring mountain lion pawprints for our upcoming booth at Picnic Day (April 22).

Posted by at 08:54 PM in Design Arts | Link |
  1. Boy, now you get descrimination against mail! In that sense things are chronologically degressing! You could send more variety of things twenty years ago than now… though your letters didn’t seem to have taken all that long to make it here. Perhaps because most correspondence in the mail here is still done by hand?

    By the way, I’ve been searching for font editor/ creator software for the Mac that will allow me to create my own fonts. Fontographer and FontLab and such are way out of my budget. Would you know of anything that doesn’t an arm and a leg and a couple of serifs?
    — butuki    8. April 2006, 16:01    Link

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