DarCal

Please write your CITY + DATE on your card (ex: New York • May 26, 2024)

Hello and welcome,

I’m an Italian gay man living and working in San Francisco as a tech writer, but www.etsy.com/shop/scriptoriaregalia is my little labor of love. I ♥ reading, writing, beautiful penmanship, thoughtful details, and exchanging meaningful notes.

What you write on your postcard is very important to me. Please share a poem or a quote you love, or anything else that will make your postcard a treasure when I find it again tucked in a book or elsewhere in the years to come.

PREFERENCES (examples: http://bit.ly/1d9uvPe)
• I’ll pick from your wishlist; it'd be great if you could do the same for me 🙏🏻
• I love beautiful stamps
• Single-view cards

NOT INTO
• 3D
• Glitter
• Digital art
• Marimekko
• Stamps with QR/Barcode

• Vintage, old stock, yellowed cards
• Printed stamps, pre-stamped cards
• Cards printed at home, at a store, online
• Glued printed address (please handwrite)
• Handmade, self-designed, advertising cards

• Sport, pets, cars, kitsch, funny cards
• Cards with jagged sides from postcard books
• Extensive/big writing on the image (if none, better)

MOST PREFERRED THEMES
• Geraniums
• Diddl, Disney, Peanuts
• Mafalda, Smurfs, Miyazaki
• Corto Maltese, Peter Rabbit

• Anything postal, airmail
• Holly/Mistletoe in December
• Atelier Nouvelles Images: http://bit.ly/1OfpSx5

• Bruce Chatwin, Agatha Christie, Madonna (the singer :D)
• B/W portraits: famous people, writers, artists (Woolf, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, ...)
• Fotofolio: Herb Ritts, Bruce Weber, classic Hollywood stars

• Australia-Post postcards/official maxicards
• USA: Ivy-League colleges, Presidents/First Ladies (except the Trumps), White House, Writers' homes (Dickinson's, Hemingway's, ...), Presidents' homes (Monticello, Ash Lawn, ...), anything patriotic (except guns)

• Royal treasures, collections, jewels, Fabergé
• Palaces, castles, museums, libraries

OTHER LIKES
• Shells
• Sunsets, clouds
• Butterflies, wildlife
• Forests, leaves, berries, orchids, barns
• Lighthouses, cliffs, seascapes, sea-life, sail ships

• Reproductions of vintage botanical, bird, butterfly, sea-life watercolors
• New Yorker/Penguin Books covers, Jane Austen cards, Royal Horticultural Society

• UNESCO sites
• Books, people reading
• Tropical settings, local landscapes
• Places of historical interest, monuments

Art: figurative (not abstract) > Banksy, Rockwell, Greek, Classic, Renaissance, De Lempicka, Piranesi, Lichtenstein, Haring, Warhol, Hopper, Lucian Freud, Vettriano, Takashi Murakami, Shepard Fairey, Jiro Taniguchi, Will Eisner, Paul Madonna, Marjolein Bastin

Photographers: Herb Ritts, Dorothea Lange, Steve McCurry, Martin Schoeller, LaChapelle, Avedon, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz, Nigel Parry, Mario Testino, Pierre & Gilles.

Architecture (buildings/details): Renzo Piano, Jean Nouvel, Palladio, Norman Foster, Victorian

Swaps: http://bit.ly/1IcaJKw
Interpals: www.interpals.net/DaKal

2024-03-08