Dear Everyone ~
Postcard entries for the Bari Zaki Studio First Ever Epistolary Drawing (BZSFEED) continue to arrive from near and far. I have received entries from sixteen states, from northeast to southwest & northwest to southeast. Postage ranges from current to vintage, with the occasional blend. Some cards are overfranked, some sport hand-cancellations, some are uncancelled. The growing stack is a fabulous & fabulously eclectic mix of mediums and materials.
Our friend Carl Herrman has now sent in five postcards (seen above). As we’ve said, the more the verrier. Carl’s name for his rubber-stamping artistic mail endeavors is the Visual Lunacy Society, and his postcards are visually wild & loonily luxe. We have a few vaguely related background details about Carl via our postal muse, who actually met him at a postal design conference in Newport Beach almost thirty years ago. Carl is a lifelong surfer, and one of the thrills of his long tenure as an art director for the USPS was designing the 29¢ Duke Kahanamoku stamp. He comments, “ The First Day ceremony included a luau for hundreds with Don Ho performing. ” Carl also designed the Spiders & Insects of 1999, which was the most popular stamp issue of the year. When we asked him if he had favorites for which he’d been the art director and/or designer, he promptly asked us, “ Like asking which are your favorite children? ”
At the opposite end of the visual lunacy spectrum, the postcard we’ve received from Frances Reed in Atlanta is more like a little black dress. Her entry is trimmed with red-and-blue piping, bordering both sides of the card. Even so, it’s very narrow, and we are wondering whether Frances could possibly have undertaken to subdivide the washi! You may recognize Frances’s name from our blog post A Morning Glue-torial at the Round Table.
The deadline for receipt of BZSFEED postcards is Friday, May 10, which is two full mailing weeks hence. Don’t dither—send your card(s) hither!
Post haste, Bari
PS:
Before I could say Stationery Bundle of Joy à la Japonaiserie, the bundles were sold out! I’ve since received several emails and messages through IG enquiring if I will be offering them again. The answer is Yes! I’ll be announcing them as soon as you can say Stationery Bundle of Joy à la Japonaiserie.
Apropos of which, the email I received from Kristen J. had a heartfelt subject line: Tell me it's not true! And her message began: Hi, I planned on ordering a Bundle of Stationery Joy for a dear friend when I ordered my Bookful of Wordless Stories workshop and see that they are completely sold out!
PPS:
And a customer who goes simply by X emailed to say, “ Wow! Japanese bundles gone immediately. ” If X had whined or bemoaned, it could have been a haiku!