The Office for Postal Arts is a publication for correspondence and mail art.
It’s become a habit of mine to find excuses to send my friends things through the mail, and this is that habit’s latest manifestation. Run by an imaginary institution, the publication is fitted for a standard #10 envelope and takes on the form of various print ephemera. This issue is dated for 2024.04.21, and is loosely centered around faith, luck, and chance.
YEAR
2024 – ongoing
TYPE
Publication
Identity
Art Direction
Imagemaking
A postal cancellation
The wordmark acts as an entry point into the publication, as both a title and a graphic motif that’s repeated and broken apart throughout the project. Designed with stenciling in mind so that it could be die-cut into the cover, the stern and industrial letterforms spelling out “office” effectively receive a strikethrough. As a guiding metaphor, the rest of the publication similarly explores tone of voice by creating conflicts between formality and candidness.
The publication was produced and assembled in multiple colour variants on the occasion of its inclusion in Zine Shine 2024!