Posts Tagged ‘touchnote’
Back to school - postcard 101
Monday, December 14th, 2009
In honour of our newly released photo postcards, time to learn a little about postcards.
The image below is of a postcard from the 1870’s.
To some this may look like a piece of a brown paper bag. It is plain, washed of colour, there is no picture and the ink is brown. The main reason for this blandness is because postcards were never actually about self-expression, visual or verbal. They were intended as a cheap way to a non-confidential message. Interestingly, when picture-postcards eventually did appear on the market, legal issues were immediately raised as to what images printed on them were considered appropriate. A postcard image in one country for example was not always considered appropriate in the destination country or in the country it needed to pass through.
Some images such as those relating to the Islamic prophet Muhammad for example, were banned from being sent in 1900 by the Ottoman Empire. And apparently ‘banned’ post cards such as these that managed to be sent before 1900 are now considered to be valuable to collectors.
So all you collectors out there get checking
Gordon Brown makes a Touchnote appearance
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
It seems that we have Touchnote customers that are friends with the PM … look who turned up on a Touchnote card…
PM on a TN we call it 
Banksy paintings on Touchnote cards
Monday, June 8th, 2009
We’re always scouring the web for cool pictures to use on Touchnote cards. So I’m happy to report that you can now use Banksy paintings and drawings to send your Touchnote greetings…check out the collection here:
http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
All you need to do is right-click on a picture, click ’save as..’ and save it to your desktop; then come to www.touchnote.com/photo and upload your pic there…simple.
Here’s one I made earlier..
Have a good week
