A Box From: All the best things in a city mailed to you

Annie Churdar Contributor

By Annie Churdar in New Products on Wednesday 8 May 2013

Wish you could travel to the most exotic corners of the globe, but you’re just too short on time? Then you should order A Box From whatever city you get curious about. A Box From is a little box full of all the best things from a city. Take A Box From Seoul. It’s full of cute [...]

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In Shanghai, you can post postcards to your future self

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 8 May 2013

If you’ve ever wanted to send letters to your future self — or someone else — but never knew how to for obvious logistical reasons, now you can. In Shanghai, you can locate one of these crafty postcard cafes and post a card as far into the future as you like. There are 365 different [...]

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Creative hate mail postcards by Mr. Bingo

Nini Baseema Contributor

By Nini Baseema in New Trends on Tuesday 7 May 2013

If you want to be destructive, you better be creative at it. This may sound to some of you like an oxymoron, but it’s apparently not. I love these beautifully executed hate mail postcards by Mr Bingo for the very fact that he’s managed to turn something so negative into something that is fun. He [...]

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If all hate mail were like this, we’d like more hate mail

Low Lai Chow Contributor

By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Thursday 3 January 2013

In April 2011, UK-based illustrator Mr Bingo started a hate mail service where he’d decorate postcards with offensive messages (e.g. ‘You are a loser and you have a fat back) and post these to the designated recipents. It was such a hit that he had to temporarily close the service after six days. He eventually did 400 hate mail postcards and ended up publishing 100 in a book. We love how hilariously petty and irreverent these are — and there’s not one ounce of spite in them.

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