Colors 1 / Serial Postcards

Designers: Kathleen Hess, Hanno Weber, Ran Huo, smART postcards, inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA
Manufacturer: MidAmerican Printing, Schiller Park, Illinois, USA

Creators of engaging graphic materials designed to stimulate and entertain preschool children. Eight series of postcards illustrating the Alphabet,Colors 1, Counting 1, Vegetables, Fruits, Insects, Money and Flowers offer delightful photographic images that place these familiar
subjects in lively and artful graphic compositions. smART postcards is dedicated to make good design accessible to preschoolers, by seeking the visual essence in the familiar and when feasible, by relating the images to an implied verbal alliteration.We believe that children enjoy receiving mail in their own name.As a regular event, this fosters self-identity and self- worth.The mailing of a postcard to a preschooler usually provides a common conversation topic and contributes to cultivating a bond between the sender and the recipient. Lastly unexpectedgraphic images, whencoupledtoverbal descriptions inmultiplelanguages introduce children to a global outlook, while nurturing literacy, comprehension and  reasoning. Designed and made in Chicago, soy-based ink and recycled content paper are used.smART postcards is committed to the literacy, education and welfare of children.