Monday 12 January 2009

Postcards before Batteries

Over the last couple of weeks I was cleaning out some boxes and found a bunch of some postcards I'd collected and never sent. These are some of them:

There was something appealing about the image below, a waterfall in Lavers Hill, Victoria (pop 208). The photo's not great, but it seemed to have a certain quality.


A crocodile that may or may not have something in its mouth:


And the ubiquitous comedic koala postcards. There are people in the world who may find this stuff hilarious. Personally, I find the first one a little grim, like the koala is heading to see a loved one in the hospital.


The font used is Dom Casual. It's the kind of font that says, "Hey there! I'm informal, yet not too crazy! I can get the message across, yet not interfere with your message, which is, in this case, a fabrication of what a koala may be thinking if it somehow managed to get onto a surfboard, paddle out to a wave, ride it and then come to the shocking realisation that it has no idea how to get off it! The koala will be anxious and perhaps use a mild form of expletive!"