Cuteness! Kara Underwood Gordon has designed a line of esoteric letterpress notecards that celebrate [and sometimes mock] aspects of Chicago and its various neighborhoods. Her Third Coast Collection is witty, clever, and full of little jokes that only the locals would understand, as a perfect alternative to mass-market cards with broad appeal.
Via Daily Candy.
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Ha, these are great! I think the neighborhood-by-font is my favorite.
I really like the neighborhood boundaries and the three-word neighborhood descriptions. But, yeah, this is almost a direction that we could have taken with our Cincinnati work. It’s nicely done!