Then, while sorting through the mail one afternoon a few years ago, Ms. Shaughnessy spotted a postcard advertisement that said, "Do you want to vacation in the same place year after year?" The postcard was promoting Exclusive Resorts, what is known in the travel business as a "destination club" whose members vacation in luxurious, club-owned homes throughout the world.
Methods of approach included postcard advertisement, phone calls, faxes, and field personnel contact.
GoCard in New York, which distributes free postcard advertisements in bars, restaurants and stores, acquired the urban advertising racks of HotStamp Postcard Advertising in New York, from the HotStamp parent company, Youthstream Media.
He prefers the term "superrealism" to "Photorealism" to describe the verisimilitude of these early canvasses based on reproductions from postcards, advertisements, travel brochures and magazine covers.
An exhibition of handmade books by James Castle (1900-1977), a self-taught artist who used newspaper, postcards, advertisements, calendars and sticks in his works, will be at the center through May 12.
A tabloid newspaper managed to find that many in a day, using a postcard-sized advertisement in a Polish-populated part of west London.
Mr. Kennedy and other executives said another downside to physical mailing was the expense of designing, printing and putting postage on a piece of mail, the combined costs of which, executives said, frequently exceed 25 cents for a postcard-size advertisement.
Lauder collects sports postcards, fashion postcards, war postcards, advertising postcards, celebrity postcards, industrial postcards, and history postcards, mostly lithographs or vintage photographs, by known and unknown artists alike.
For some years he lived a lonely and isolated life, earning a precarious livelihood by painting postcards and advertisements and drifting from one municipal hostel to another.
Readers can find a rich trove of archival photos, maps, postcards and advertisements she has dug up showing New York trains and stations from long-gone eras — and her sly musings about the more peculiar passengers with whom she rides.
Slow and Low Maintenance Make it a point to collect images that speak to you as you go about your days: postcards, magazines, advertisements, business cards, etc. Pin the pages up on a big bulletin board when you get home and watch your goals evolve over time.
