About this project

Walltype is small site where people can share postcards with others via the traditional postal mail.

Postcards capture our attention differently than images viewed online: they provide a supremely suitable ground for connecting with others. Walltype offers its users a way to share postcards on a wide range of topics, and to request which postcard topics they most want to receive.

How Walltype works, in detail:

Browse postcard topics

Take a look around the site and the postcard topics. Some topics may be the subject of the postcard itself, or what you write on the back, while others will be the type of postcard to send.

Request an address and send a postcard

Once you are ready to send a postcard, hit the Share link and receive a name and address. This was the last person to send a postcard through Walltype, and thus they are next up in the queue to receive a postcard from another user.

Choose from one of the postcard topics and send a postcard!

If the postcard you want to send doesn't fit into any of the topics: choose topic #1 (send any postcard and say hello) and contact us with a topic suggestion!

If the user lists a preference, you may choose to send a postcard on a topic they would like to receive. You may use a readymade, store-bought postcard or make one of your own, using blank postcards available at any art supply store (or online, like here or here).

The topic you choose will offer a few guidelines for your postcard, but feel free to interpret it however you like. That said, do keep in mind that you will be sharing your postcard with another person, so no obscenity, foul language, or other such things on your postcard, please.

Do make sure you drop your postcard in the mail quickly. Don't forget to mail it! We are on the honor system here.

Receive a postcard

You will then receive a postcard in your mailbox from the next person who shares one. Simple, right?

Be sure to list the topics you most want to receive in the 'about' section of your profile.

Works Cited

Walltype would not have come about without the remarkable and inspiring efforts of the Learning to Love You More project and Postcrossing, the postcard sharing website.

The Walltype logo originates from the logo of Evolution Online Systems, formerly a provider of software development services in New York City.