January 22, 2008

Priority Mail

Caulfield Parcel’s First Collection

When was the last time you sent a handwritten letter through the postal system? Miss that warm, fuzzy feeling from finding a personal note in your mailbox (wedding invitations notwithstanding)?

Revive the good times and correspondence with Caulfield Parcel, a new Manhattan-based paper company that’s rethinking conventional stationery.

The launch collection features sets of awesomely executed note cards in sorbet colors. They range from hand-illustrated fashion sketches to paint-by-number cards to graphic designs based on mundane pieces of junk mail and magazine ephemera. A line of sketchbooks and address books are in the works.

Everything is packaged in sleek cardboard drawers and cylinders, so toting yours around can act as motivation for longhand practice.

At least while paper is still lighter than a MacBook Air.

Available online at caulfieldparcel.com.