internal mail
Beauty lies within.
This unrealised project looked at how only a designer— or maybe a postman or some other related profession (with only a stationery shopkeeper who has taken their love for their job to another level springing to mind at the time)— finds beauty where others may see nothing.
Opening our mail on a daily basis has visually conditioned us.
We take no notice what so ever to the package we are too quick to rip through to get to the precious contents (or more recently, the utter junk: or worse—bills) to stop and appreciate the often intriguing and visually diverse envelope inner.
The set of internal mail envelopes subvert this notion, and allow the envelope inner to come to the forefront and bring a decorative element to the design whilst retaining the functionality and security that it always offered: and so highlighting the beauty that all too often goes unseen.
But, if that still doesn't make sense, I've adopted the age old solution: if you can't say it with your own words, then anothers will do just fine.
I love seeing the beauty in objects or places that, to most people, are ugly or ignored. I think that's the job of a designer. Michael C Place/Build
Made in packs of 50, each with a different exterior. Here's a taster.
Internal Mail Packaged And this is how they'd be sent out.