Making Mail More Awesome with @lucy_mail
To celebrate the upcoming #WWIM16💌’s theme of #KindComments, we’ll be featuring voices spreading messages of kindness within the Instagram community.
“Mail could be awesome if it weren’t just bills and catalogues and stuff,” says artist and stationary designer Lucy Halcomb (@lucy_mail). After moving to New York from Alabama seven years ago, Lucy sent hand-painted postcards and envelopes to friends and family back home, knowing that they would delight in receiving these personalized treasures. This past February, Lucy quit her day job as an art director for a fashion company to focus on her own creative projects and to make mail more awesome for everyone.
For Lucy, #KindComments translate into everyday life. “I feel like every interaction that you have changes somebody else’s day. Even with the people that you’re closest with, roommates or your family. Then that can reflect on getting up for a stranger on the subway or something like that,” she says. “These things that seem so casual can basically make or break someone’s day — and hopefully make it.”
