Postcards for Japan

A little Sunday evening post to highlight a set of pretty postcards by Hsin Ping. The set is $4.00 & proceeds are donated to the American Red Cross fund for Japan. (via The Benevolent Postcard Society) See you next week! ciao-meow/GG

Write a Letter

Don't you love getting letters through the mail? It is one of the most personal and meaningful means of communication. Revive the art of letter writing—write a letter to a friend! Begin by creating your own personal stationery, here at the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum's site. (The Activity Zone has many other fun ideas, too.) Do we have to remind you that, ahem, you probably owe some thank-you cards? (photograph by the ghost factory on flickr via The Benevolent Postcard Society)

Happy Third Day of Christmas!

ciao-meow/GG Holiday Central

Postal Break

GG Central is on break for a few more days. Meanwhile, you can send a note to bricolage (GG's editor's site). Wouldn't you love to have a mail box like one of these? Especially in such a herd? [by talented Olga, via Benevolent Postcard Society]

ciao-meow

PS: Don't forget to visit Darfur Peace & Development Organization. Thanks so much.

Sunday Update/23 May 2010: GG will be on break until Memorial Day (31 May 2010). Please do visit our friends & colleagues on this page. ciao!

Why Wear Anything Else?

Fellow Benevolent Postcard Society member, Samantha in Istanbul, Turkey is a finalist in a design competition and needs your votes! Last year she designed a shoe for Fluevog that was eventually made into a real shoe named the Zaza (after her). This time around, she's in the running for a competition to design the ad for the Zaza. The winner is determined by the number of votes their design receives, so Samantha needs as many votes as she can get to win. Help her win by voting for her beautifully illustrated ad, called Why Wear Anything Else?, here. You can vote once a day until December 22.

Above text is quickly lifted & slightly tweaked from the BPS blog & from Lori Langille's automatism blog. Please help! Samantha is so talented & is tied (tied!) with another talented person. Giulia the Cat exhorts (no, not extorts:) everyone who sees this to vote. You will not receive spam, you don't have to sign up for anything. Please help!

ciao-grazie-meow/GG's editor

[illustration is used with permission of artist]

Swedish Christmas Kitchen

Congratulations to Lori Langille, Canadian illustrator. She was included on the Times (UK) 50 of the World's Best Design blogs yesterday! Lori kindly allowed GG's editor to use this image from her automatism blog last Christmas season. Thank you to Lori for her kindness this past year. (Lori also created the Benevolent Postcard Society art project, in which we participate. Well, GG doesn't but she supervises postcard selection by flopping on to one particular card each month. That's the one we choose. No kidding.) Happy Holidays to Lori & to her fellow designers!

ciao-meow/GGCM

[image from Marie Claire Maison via automatism]