Pigeon Posted

Pigeon Posted

 The idea of Pigeon Posted came about after the designer, John Morse-Brown, fell out of love with social media.

He needed a new way of keeping in touch with friends and that made him think about letters.

Compared with posting online, there have traditionally been quite a few hurdles to writing a letter. Laying hands on writing paper, finding a matching envelope, digging out your friend’s address… Then there’s the format, the tyranny of the empty page. How on earth do you start? And letter writing isn’t exactly edgy. It’s old school, sure, but certainly not millennial.

And that got him thinking. He's a graphic designer with an engineering background, and he happens to love origami. He wanted to find a way of making letter writing fun, new, beautiful, and easy.

Pigeon is the result.

The envelope is integral to the letter, and the space to write in is not too daunting. He sometimes say it’s like Twitter, but with a pen. Once you get a correspondence going, you’ll always have your friend’s address to hand inside their latest letter. Pigeons are also the perfect size to hold a Polaroid photo, so you can slip in a selfie. And the design means each Pigeon is a small object of beauty.

If you don’t normally write letters, you’re in for an unexpected treat – the completely irrational joy of not receiving an instant reply to your message… It sounds perverse in our day and age, that having to wait can feel good. But it really does. He's discovered first hand that there’s a real pleasure in knowing that, in the next day or two, a friend will receive a completely personal note from you - just from you, and that you might get a hand-written reply some time after that. Delayed gratification is good for the soul.

Sending one letter to one friend and waiting for one reply is entirely satisfying. It’s personal and unique; narrowcasting, not broadcasting. Added to which, he often read letters from friends two or three times over. That can’t say the same for social media. Romantic as it sounds, with a letter you end up with a little part of your friend, to keep for ever. To tuck into a book and stumble across at some later date. A letter holds its value, and that helps sustain true friendship. Nothing digital can compare.


Pigeon Posted ‘Apothecary’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Dawn Chorus’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Fiesta’

Pigeon Posted ‘Fiesta’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Floral’

Pigeon Posted ‘Floral’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Folklore’

Pigeon Posted ‘Folklore’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Hebridean’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Hedgerow’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Moonlight’

Pigeon Posted ‘Moonlight’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Nature Study’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Robin & Wren’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Safe Harbour’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Seedlings’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Starburst’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Summer Meadow’

Pigeon Posted ‘Summer Meadow’

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Pigeon Posted ‘Wildflowers’

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