Print PDF
Favorite
Email
If the postal workers don't hate me now, this laser-etched piece might turn them to the dark side. If I'm lucky they'll have a fondness for optical tricks and get this postcard to the right place.
On this thick piece of acrylic I sliced up the addresses into two images and etched each one on opposite sides. the only way to look at the thing and make any sense of it is to close one eye and carefully move it around to change the angle.
With no changes to the bottom image in terms of distortion or size it's impossible to line up the front and back to make the whole address "pop" into view. You can't even get a whole zip code to line up just right. And yet it's still readable if you put just a tiny bit of time into it. So it should make it through. I even put Priority Mail postage on this one for an extra boost through the system.
On this thick piece of acrylic I sliced up the addresses into two images and etched each one on opposite sides. the only way to look at the thing and make any sense of it is to close one eye and carefully move it around to change the angle.
With no changes to the bottom image in terms of distortion or size it's impossible to line up the front and back to make the whole address "pop" into view. You can't even get a whole zip code to line up just right. And yet it's still readable if you put just a tiny bit of time into it. So it should make it through. I even put Priority Mail postage on this one for an extra boost through the system.
Remove these ads by
Signing UpStep 1Make the Postcard Design
For all the steps here, I used Illustrator CS2, but this is very simple stuffe and can be asily done in other graphics programs.
This card is a little bigger than normal at 7x5, but the rounded corners will make it a bit friendlier. Don't want anyone to poke themselves with this thing, right?
Now just plop in the addresses. Good old Flibberty and Howard get to resume their communication in this example. Thanks, guys!
This card is a little bigger than normal at 7x5, but the rounded corners will make it a bit friendlier. Don't want anyone to poke themselves with this thing, right?
Now just plop in the addresses. Good old Flibberty and Howard get to resume their communication in this example. Thanks, guys!
| « Previous Step | Download PDFView All Steps | Next Step » |
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/1Ig0imgc956yg3Akj
(Top tip: don't send secret messages from colour laser printers, each one has a secret yellow dot code that IDs the date, time and printer! See http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=laser+printer+secret+dots )