Postcards—AKA Pocket-Sized Poster Art!
A happy customer recently shared with us how excited they were to decorate their home with Anderson Design Group postcard art. They even wrote us a sweet, five-star review on our Google profile!
(By the way, if you’ve ordered ADG’s vintage poster art, retro art designs, original illustrations, coffee table books, national park art, or any of our other fun products and gifts in the past, we’d love for you to leave us a review! Please find us on Google here).
Ginna's review reminded us that folks are sometimes tight on wall space, but that should never be a limiting factor in updating one’s home decor and wall art!
Enter in: Postcards!
Before we talk postcards and how to decorate with postcards, check out this inspiring reel of ADG Nashville art on customers’ walls!
Nathan Anderson, ADG’s Online Retail Director & Wholesale Coordinator, had this to say about ADG’s postcards:
“We like to think of them as pocket-sized posters!”
And he’s exactly right. Depending on the postcard set, ADG’s postcards come in sizes between 4.25” x 6” and 4.5” x 6” and are produced with state-of-the-art digital printing methods on acid-free, gallery-grade paper. And the best thing is that all (and we mean all) 3,000+ of our designs are available as postcards!
Yep, all of our American and World travel poster art, national park posters, and other original vintage poster designs and retro travel art, I.e., the entire Anderson Design Group Collection (a conglomerate of 34 unique art collections) can be printed mini-size on quality card stock.
Classic postcards and original postcard designs are perfect for collecting, sharing, or decorating with limited space. They’re also a bride-to-be’s dream—you can order blank-back postcards and use them for Save-the-Date and wedding postcard reception place markers.
How to Get the Best Postcards
ADG’s postcards have soared in popularity, and our team has produced several new postcard sets and unique postcard collections to meet the demand. Here’s a preview:
Coastal Postcards and Beach Postcards: This breezy 24-piece postcard set includes two dozen of our most popular poster designs from the Coastal Collection. Of course, we shrunk them down so you can fit them in the mailbox! These little beauties are ideal for sending to pen pals or for decorating with small picture frames.
Postcards of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: If you like our art of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, you will love the postcard set! We’ve shrunk 30 of our most popular Great Smoky Mountains National Park poster designs to postcard size. Each beautiful card is printed on gallery-grade card stock with a classic matte finish. In addition to the lovely art on the front, we’ve added an interesting and educational fact on the back of each postcard.
Postcards of Oil Paintings: To enhance our collection of national park prints, we commissioned our talented friend Kai Carpenter to create 30 original oil paintings in his classic American style. Kai’s creations have now been made into a set of collectible postcards.
Cryptid Postcards and Legends of the National Parks: During our adventures in the national parks, we’ve run across bizarre legends of mythical creatures reported to have inhabited many parks and surrounding areas. We began to collect creepy accounts of strange creatures—like Bigfoot, the Jackalope, the Wendigo, or visitors from outer space. This collector’s postcard set is perfect for every national park lover or creep show fan, featuring the fantasy art by Anderson Design Group’s award-winning artists. These colorful cards feature informative text on the backside about the history behind each legendary creature.
National Park Postcards: All 63 National Parks are featured in our newly updated postcard set! This gorgeous collection includes one postcard of each of the 63 parks in the National Park System—including the latest additions—Gateway Arch and Indiana Dunes, White Sands, and New River Gorge. This national park collector’s set is perfect for every outdoor lover, featuring the most popular poster designs from Anderson Design Group’s award-winning National Park Poster Series. Frame and decorate with these beauties and make a collage or gallery wall!
Postcards of National Parks by Kenneth Crane: It’s the 63 American National Parks in postcard format by Kenneth Crane, celebrating Kenneth’s unique and eye-catching design and illustration style. These beautiful cards are printed with precision on gallery-grade paper, with a pebble-textured finish. This set is a national park lover’s dream!
Space Travel Postcards: When you’re ready to go to space, you’ll need these postcards to correspond with friends and family back on Earth! Our Space Travel postcard set celebrates the Nuclear Age’s optimism, adventure, style, and the years leading up to the actual Space Age. This collector’s postcard set is perfect for every space travel fan, featuring the fantasy art of Anderson Design Group’s award-winning artists. These colorful cards feature informative text on the backside about the history behind each outer space destination.
Nashville Postcards: Our classic Postcard Collector’s Set contains 20 popular Music City designs selected from the award-winning Spirit of Nashville gallery print series. These beauties celebrate all the great thing we love about Nashville, our hometown.
State Pride Postcards and Postcards of U.S. States: The State Pride Collection is a bold, iconic series of poster art created to celebrate each of the 50 states of this beautiful country. (We’ve also added an extra postcard for Washington, DC!) Featuring an iconic image for each state, bold type for the state name and nickname, plus the state flag, each of the 51 postcards provides a stylish way to keep up with your travels. Display a card each time you visit a new state, or use it to write notes to your favorite people across America and worldwide. The gorgeous illustrations by Anderson Design Group’s award-winning art team make this collector’s postcard set the perfect gift for every travel buff, history nerd, teacher, student, or postcard lover.
Interested in a Postcard Mystery Bag?
Who doesn’t like a good mystery? The 50-Piece Deluxe Grab Bag Postcard Set is part of ADG’s 2025 Scratch-N-Dent Sale, so it’s discounted. This amazing collector’s set includes 50 of our most popular postcards.
In this mystery bag of postcards, you’ll find American travel postcards, plus classics from our Spirit of Nashville Collection and a few mystery bonus cards! Our grab bag features postcards of American cities, several of the most popular national parks, coastal themes, plus many more gems from the ADG archives. This deluxe set comes in a canvas drawstring bag and also includes folded maps of the USA. All of the art is by Anderson Design Group. All of the cards were printed in the USA on high-quality card stock. This limited edition set is a postcard collector’s dream!
Bulk Postcards
Cue that one song that goes something like, “This is how we do it!” by Montell Jordan because any (and we mean any) of our over 3,000 poster designs and original illustrations can be ordered in quantities ranging from sets of eight to sets of 240!
This product is the best and most affordable option if you need to purchase postcards for a specific event, party, wedding, anniversary, business event, or other happening, and you want to order a set quantity of the same design.
Last But Not Least: The Popular Build-Your-Own Postcard Set! (Custom Postcard Set)
Always available due to popular demand, the Build-Your-Own Postcard Set allows you to choose your favorite eight designs, and we’ll print them onto smooth, sturdy, matte-finished postcard stock.
Now you can create your very own custom set of postcards featuring any of our 3,000+ designs! Follow the instructions on the Build-Your-Own Postcard Set product page and enjoy the eight beautiful postcards you chose!
Now You’ve Got Your Postcards, What Do You Do With Them?
It’s no exaggeration to say the sky's the limit in how to decorate with postcards. Some customers have used clothes pins and string to create hanging designs of postcards spanning the entire length of a wall. Others use magnets and create a collage to brighten the ole’ kitchen refrigerator. We've even seen photos of weddings with decor themes based on our postcards!
Many customers put their postcards in picture frames and stage the frames on desks, dressers, mantels, and built-in shelving units. Sometimes, customers will use thumbtacks to tack postcards directly into a wall; others have even used this method to attach postcards to the ceiling!
Postcards Until the Cows Come Home
If you’ve ever felt like doing your own version of the famous Scrooge-McDuck-diving-into-a-pile-of-money scene, but with postcards, ADG has you covered. Order as many as you like and decorate, correspond, invite, and write to your heart’s content!
Happy postcarding,
-Ren Brabenec
Anderson Design Group Staff Writer
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