Beautifully Awkward Greeting Cards By Emily McDowell
Illustrator, designer, and “truth-teller” Emily McDowell greeting cards are funny, fresh, adorable and painfully relatable. She recognizes the common struggle of expressing oneself in highly emotional and awkward situations, like when we have to congratulate someone we are in love with on their birthday. When our hearts are full of deep feelings, but our minds are frozen, all you can do is laugh, and this is exactly what McDowell gets us to do.
“My work reflects our shared human experience, in all its different, messy forms, and I feel most satisfied when something I made helps somebody feel like someone else out there gets them,” writes McDowell.
Former advertising art director, writer and creative director McDowell returned to her roots by drawing and creating ad-unrelated stories. After putting her one whimsical “Awkward Valentine card” on Etsy, she met with unexpected viral success, eventually making an entire series of Awkward Cards.
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Awkward Dating Card
Awkward Birthday Card
Awkward Love Card
Awkward Mother’s Day Card
Awkward Sympathy Card
Awkward Thinking Of You Card
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This is just absurd. If a person wanted to tell someone what these cards say, s/he just could write that shit down in a piece of paper instead of wasting their money in “truthteller” “handwritten” cards..
word.
very clever. she has an immediate audience and they will certainly mean i would not have to stand in a greeting cards shop for hours on end trying to find something that is not too slushy and giddy. well done that person…stiff upper lip and all that sort of thing…
Where can I buy these?!..lol. The vulnerability in them is pretty darn cute. Saying the ‘perfect’ things don’t always have the same impact. Hmm :-)
AWESOME!