Indie artists, designers and illustrators are doing it for themselves! Tough times often lead to greater creativity and entrepreneurial spirit. Where once designers might have produced a set of postcards to promote themselves or simply for fun, demand for individual design has led to an explosion of quirky and covetable products for sale via the Internet. Self-initiated projects, such as T-shirts or button designs, are fast becoming businesses in themselves.

This book showcases over 500 of the cutest and most exciting graphic products by over 90 practitioners from around the world, including: books, magazines and zines; toys; posters, prints and canvases; fonts and typographic 3D products; clothing; and accessories....

In recent years postcards have become so much more than a tacky holiday greeting. Graphic designers illustrators and advertisers are seizing the postcard and repurposing it with quirky new designs that give a new twist to a classic format.

Postcard is a showcase of the most exciting postcard designs and postcard-related projects including handmade artworks limited-edition sets and books commercial promo cards high-tech postcards and interactive online projects that successfully link the virtual with the physical world.

Designed and compiled by international design studio FL@33 the book features more than 100 artists illustrators photographers designers and studios/collectives from around the world with emerging talents sitting alongside established artists. The book includes a collector's set of 20 specially commissioned postcards from some of the biggest names in the business....