📣 Big news: Welcome to the Radical Postcard Club
I'm diving into the world of Patreon + making monthly real-life postcards. Come and join the club.
First up, here’s the Radical Postcard Club on Patreon. If you’re as ridiculously excited about this as I am, head straight there to see all the details.
It’s a simple idea - club members get a new postcard each month, either to their letterbox or digitally. And in a nutshell, they are postcards for a radically better future. ✊
There are three tiers: Digital Members, Founding Members (only 50 spots available - get in while it’s hot🔥), and International Members.
Check out the offerings here.
Each tier gets a digital and/or physical copy of the postcard of the month and some other digital treats, like a video of me figuring out how to design and make the club logo (see the logo below). Find the video here, you can see a little preview there.
The Radical Postcard Club is about small but impactful physical art that you can hold in your hands, leave on your coffee table, or stick into a book to give to a friend. Maybe it will spark a conversation that could add to the forward momentum of the work of our generation.
It's about taking art and conversation offline, into real kitchens and living rooms, where we can chat at a human pace - rather than at internet pace.
I hope a friend will see a radical postcard on your fridge one day while you're boiling the kettle, and say what's this about? And a beautiful ranging conversation will begin, igniting your collective imagination for a better future.
That’s the dream.
You can read more about the club and watch a sweet little welcome video, here.
August’s postcards
So the club is live and ready to go. If you’re keen to subscribe, you’ll get two postcards (see them below) in late August. Here’s a bit of guff about them:
Club logo on a green background
The first is our mighty club logo on a delicious green background. I lino printed the logo - you can see the design, carving, and printing process in a patron-only post here.
Make beautiful trouble
The second one is super fun! The words 'make beautiful trouble' are surrounded by elements you might find in a productive garden or a farmers market.
It's completely radical to grow your own organic food or skip the industrial food system (big supermarkets) and buy your food directly from a local farmer at a market or via a Community Supported Agriculture veg box.
You can see the making process over on my Instagram feed.
Behind the scenes
I feel like there have been lots of big announcements for you lately, which I think reflects my utter vexation with the state of things online for creatives. Voiceover Nat (that’s me, being disembodied on YouTube) had a good crack at explaining my confoundedness on my first vlog.
My dive into Patreon is part of a multi-pronged approach to stabilise my workflow, have more fun, and make more meaningful things.
Another prong is to become a vlogger on YouTube - if you were an early enthusiast of my channel, oh my goodness, thank you for your support in the comments. It was a fun but nerve-wracking experience, but your exuberant presence there was of great relief to me.
The final prong I’m yet to roll out is to load my online shop with Imaginationscape prints and a few commission spots. It’s slowly coming to life.
My goal is that these 3 different ways of working (plus writing on Substack** and a bit of freelance photography and writing, as well) will create a sustainable monthly work cycle that all harmonise (or evolve) into something pretty good over time.
It’s a long game, but I’m up for it.
**I’m keeping Substack free, because I don’t think I could write under the pressure of a paywall - it’s so nice to do it this way.
Come over and have a peek at the Radical Postcard Club. I’m pretty sure you can sign up for free too, I imagine you’ll get sent the free posts I make. I’m not sure yet, I’m so new at this.
If you’re a feet-first kinda person and want to join the club straight away, I’m so grateful to you - thank you for following me all over the internet and supporting my work - I’m sure you’re going to love the postcards!
See you next time, and stay radical.
I love the idea of holding art in your hands and your style of art is so up my alley Nat! Yay for new ideas 🙌🏼🙌🏼