“Write me a letter for when it stops being now”
After you flew off so dramatically the other day to go find your world cup, I realized that you may run into a miscommunication in your search. Turns out the humans have a World Cup of their own, using two things we have never needed--a foot and a ball. Yup, it's called football.
Pippin’s American Adventure
could this be a story about the (football) world cup?
Pippin’s Route: Charles Darwin’s Letter That Traveled an Empire
In the 1830s, letters did not move directly from sender to recipient. They relied on ports, packet ships, national post offices, and regional mail routes, often taking months to arrive. Each stop added time, risk, and human effort. This blog traces the realistic postal journey of one such letter Darwin wrote during the South American leg of the Beagle voyage, following its path back to England through the 19th-century postal system.
How an internet joke gave Lettre a mascot – Raising Pippin
For Lettre, we wanted to tell the story of our app through the lens of a mascot which would not only serve as the anchor point for our social media content, but also help us gamify the in-app interactions and provide delighters wherever possible.