At university we were set a collaborative brief called 'Design by nature', by taking natural process and fusing it with a public space to improve it.

Process: Symbiosis
Public space: Postbox

Our conclusion of postboxes:
- Posting stuff takes too long
- Stamps are too far away from the postbox
- Stamps are outdated

From here our work split into two segments,
- Revising how a stamp could work to fit our modern needs
- Giving postboxes more uses

 

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In revising stamps we decided that a big issues was that they couldn't be tracked, and not knowing whether a letter had arrived is important, so we created a concept for stamp that conceals a microchip that tracks its location.

 

These stamps come in pairs, the left holds the chip and the right comes with a code, this code can be used on the Royal Mail website to track the letter.

As the second stamp wouldn't be usable, we wanted to make it so it wasn't useless. We came up with the idea of having it location based for London specifically, each borough would have its own iconic look- Giving the stamps appeal to tourists or stamp collectors.