The Hand Written Project

Hoxton Hoxton Hoxton - love that area!
You always stumble across unusual pop up kookie stores, market stalls, coffee shops and exhibitions and it is a mecca for people watching and the huge array of fashion that you see walking down the highstreet. This is where I stumbled across The Hand Written project, a small exhibition set up by Craig Oldham who had invited the world's leading designers, design studios and creative thinkers to share their thoughts in handwritten form on their own letterhead. I do think it is sad that much of our communication is now reduced to under 141 characters, frantically typed out on email or hurridly auto corrected on phones. So handed a sheet of paper to write someone a letter - where would you start? The exhibition showcased just this, it was fascinating to see what people would write from, 'Hello Craig, how are you today?' to 'Work hard and be nice to people.' And the handwritting - so many styles, some legible, others not! And the letter heads - conventional to a die cut flying pig! The exhibition has now finished but check out this website http://handwrittenletterproject.com