Postcards

Word Salad Affirmation Cards

Modern thoughts meet Renaissance beauty.

Each Word Salad card pairs contemporary words, ideas, and observations with artwork from a remarkable 16th-century manuscript; one that began as a showcase of calligraphy and, decades later, was transformed into something even more extraordinary.

Between 1561 and 1562, Georg Bocskay, a Croatian-born court secretary to the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I, created a manuscript demonstrating an astonishing range of calligraphic styles. About thirty years later, Emperor Rudolf II commissioned the artist Joris Hoefnagel to illuminate Bocskay's work. Hoefnagel surrounded the elaborate lettering with meticulously painted flowers, fruit, insects, and other elements from the natural world, creating an unexpected collaboration between calligrapher and painter.

We took that beautiful collision of words and nature and gave it a modern voice.

Each card combines a fragment of this Renaissance-era artwork with a contemporary thought, reminder, or bit of hard-earned wisdom. Some are sincere. Some are strange. Some are a little dark. All of them are meant to make you stop. And remember.

A little history. A little wisdom. A lot of words.

Printed on luxurious velvet soft-touch cardstock, these 4 × 6" cards are made to be displayed, tucked somewhere meaningful, or simply encountered when you need them.

Let the day settle like dust.