Great idea, Ren�
I'm in.
Especially on stuff found in the street.

Hi Kenn,

I will get collecting stuff for you. Anything goes?

Ren�
For more privacy you could also mail me directly ;-))

sounds interesting. hey, if you dutch would quit making such
pretty stamps maybe mailing stuff wouldn't be so expensive ;)

It is a good idea!

But Ren�, won't it be a better idea to just scan them in so that more people can see them?

If more people take part, won't you end up like sending out 10 sets of everything?

You'd lose the texture in a scan...
If this really takes of, we could make a rotational system or something.
Besides, wouldn't you love to get a nice fat letter full of foreign design every once in a while?
I'd love getting something from Singapore.
Come on, it'll be fun!

You could set it up this way. The first person, e.g. Yves, sends three pieces of stuff to two other people to get the ball rolling. Each of these people send three pieces back to the first person, and send three pieces on to other people. Each recipient sends three things back to the person who sent to them, and three things on to other people.

I think John's got quite a good system there. For a start at least. I'll start collecting stuff right now.

I always collect stuff when I travel, but back home, I kinda just take everything for granted.

Should we come up with a criteria for the items collected? Eg: Does it need to be designed locally?

More later then.

Ren� and I exchanged addresses over the e-mail, we specified what kind of design we'd like, I'm looking for candy-wrappings, sugarsatchels (sans sugar...) Found stuff, holiday things and stuff you think I might find interesting...

Would any of you be interested in Danish stuff?

(I've started collecting your stuff Ren�, by a stroke of luck a really camp piece of design landed in my hands yesterday.)

Count me in. Will email you guys with my maililng address.

Anyone else interested in stuff from Asia / Australia can email me. But my typophile email account is not set up and I haven't got the details i need to set it up. :-P

Hi robbers,

I'm back. I had a really hard few days with at work.

> sounds interesting. hey, if you dutch would quit making such pretty stamps maybe mailing stuff wouldn't be so expensive ;)

Isaac. We are good, aren't we. We have a rep to keep up.

> If more people take part, won't you end up like sending out 10 sets of everything?

Karen. I think Kenn likes to have the real deal. He would like to have the piece I've found in the streets, smell, taste and everything included. I can't send everything to everyone. I'll do what I can on a personal base. I'll look especially around for one person.

> You could set it up this way. The first person, e.g.

John. Not a bad idea. If someone would be interested in something like this we could try it out. This only goes with thing you can get for free or buy. Things I find in the streets go to Kenn. ;-)

> Does it need to be designed locally?

Karen. Not neccesarily. I like everything out of the ordinary. If you find something Russian in Tokyo, it's also OK.

Kenn. I've found some things for you on the streets. I'll have to get a feeling for what you like, so please give me some feedback on the stuff I send you.

Later,
Ren�

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