Aaaaaand we have a winner! 🎉
Over the past couple of months, 174 designs were submitted to the World Postcard Day design contest and so the job of choosing just one was once more a tough challenge. They were so many great entries!
This year, the team of judges was composed of us at Postcrossing, Frank Roche from The Postcardist Podcast, Graham Beck from Exploring Stamps, Perrine Bisson from the Musée de La Poste and Will Hansen, curator of Americana at the Newberry Library (who are the custodians of the Curt Teich Postcard Archives). This stellar team took the time to enjoy and ponder all the designs, and after much admiring and careful consideration, a winner has emerged.
So, without further ado, let me introduce to you the postcard that will represent the 2022 edition of the World Postcard Day! It was created by French animation student and postcrosser Pauline Chrétien (aka paulinectart):
Here is what she wrote about this lovely design:
Postcards can deliver a little bit of hope and kindness to people who need it, and to show our support to every victim of conflict on earth.
That is why I chose to represent world peace through postcards, delivered by doves, this bird that symbolizes peace around the world.
Congratulations Pauline! We love the style and the message it conveys — of peace being delivered to all these different mailboxes!
If you’d like to print this postcard on your local printing shop or through an online service (like Vistaprint or Moo), the files are available for download on the World Postcard Day page. If you use it or receive it, we encourage you to share it online with the hashtag #WorldPostcardDay on your favorite social media platform! We’d love to see how far and wide this lovely postcard travels, and especially look forward to seeing pictures of it next to different mailboxes around the world! 📮
Now is the time to make plans for October 1st, to celebrate this special day! There are some events already on the calendar and more will be announced in the coming weeks, but you can choose how you participate and make something unique. It can be as simple and as nice as sending postcards to family, friends, co-workers, inspiring teachers or neighbors! But you can also choose to use postcards in a classroom if you’re an educator, help your young family members send their first postcards, or help your local library or museum do something special to mark the day… Check out this page for some tips! And don’t forget to share your plans with us in the comments below or on this forum topic, so we can spread the word and inspire each other.
And naturally, the World Postcard Day badge will be awarded once more to those who send at least one postcard in Postcrossing on October 1st. Make sure to save some slots until then, so you can request a few postcards on the day and earn the special badge once more!
165 comments so far
The design is so beautiful 😍 Congratulations to the winner.
What a beautiful design. I think world peace is one think to write for on World Postcard Day.
That's a beautiful design, wow!
Simply beautiful!
Congrats to the winners 🎊🎉
Congratulations ! How lovely and vibrant the card is ! Can't wait to send some on the World Postcard Day !
Beautiful design and message!
This is absolutely stunning, a lovely message we can all identify with…congrats Pauline…
Can you tell me where I can buy a postcard like this?
Congratulations, Pauline!
I like your work and would be pleased to receive a postcard designed by paulinectart :) and/or this card :)
@oksleto This design is free! In a few days, you'll be able to download the postcard files and print it yourself, in a local or online printing shop. :)
Absolutely stunning design, and so fitting! Congratulations Pauline. 😍
Very well deserved! Beautiful and creative. 🥰☮️🕊
Félicitations Pauline! J'adore! ❤️
Such a beautiful, friendly and peaceful design! I love it!
Very beautiful and gentle design! I love it very much.
Congratulation, Pauline 🎉
It's a beautiful peace motif and I love it very much.
But 2nd and 3rd place are equally wonderful and I personally would have struggled to choose the winning card from these three.
Great work from all three of you 👍
BEAUtiful! Congrats
Beautiful! Where can we buy it in Poland?
What a transcendent design! Thank you, Pauline, for this gift to us!
It’s so beautiful and very fitting for todays world.
@verdiana grab the images coming up in a few days on https://worldpostcardday.com/celebrate#postcard and walk to your local print shop to print some yourself... Remember you have to print both sides...
Lovely!
Congratulations Pauline. What a lovely design!
Simply elegant, such a wonderful message! Congrats, Pauline!
This is one of the most amazing postcard designs I've ever seen! I love it! ❤️
Amazing 😍 so beautiful & peaceful !
Thank you Pauline!
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Congratulations! How lovely the card is ! Can't wait to send some on the World Postcard Day!
Beautiful card! Congratulations 🎊
Congratulations! ☺
Beautiful design 😍 Congratulations to the winner !!
Which sponsor logos do we have to print on the back side?
Amazing!
What a beautiful work of art! Congrats, Pauline, and to all who entered. Looking forward to ordering some!
Good choice 🤩👍
Wow, so beautiful. Where can I buy this postcard?
Absolutely love it. The serenity, love and peace conveyed by both images and colors is perfect. Thank you Pauline and thank you Postcrossing!
Such a beautiful design! Thank you Pauline
Alas, this time the postcard is not very...
Bravo Pauline; ta carte est vraiment très jolie
Congratulations to Pauline！
Very beautiful design 🕊️
Peace is always beautiful.
I'm looking forward to World Postcard Day 😊
Really pretty! As @yurakana said above me, Peace is always beautiful. Thank you Pauline @paulinectart and Congratulations!
This is a wonderful design, it makes me feel peaceful just looking at it. 🥰🫠, I love it. X
Quelle jolie carte postale pleine d espoir
Bravo à la gagnante
I absolutely LOVE, LOVE this design and the much-needed message it conveys, especially during this time in our world.
Can't wait to print and send out into the world.🥰💕
Very nice, well done Pauline 👍🏻❤️
Congratulations Pauline!
Congratulations pauline💐🎊🎉
Wow!
What a great design!
@dutchgranny To get a WPD badge, just request addresses here in the official postcrossing site on Oct 1 (regardless the time zone) and you are awarded with a badge once your cards are registered by recipients.
What a lovely design! ❤ Congrats Pauline! 🤗
This is such beautiful design ♥️♥️
I like it very much!
Love it. Congrats to designer.
A true award winner! And an impressive award committee - PostCrossing is truly on the global stage.
Wow it's a perfect design in these (difficult) times. Congrats to Pauline, can't wait to send this postcard around the world!
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It!!!
great design, congrats!!
📮
Wow, wonderful.
What a lovely design! Very well done Pauline.
Oh my gosh, love that very much!!
Thank you Pauline for this beautiful design!!
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Merci Pauline, pour ta magnifique carte postale. C'est vraiment Génial :)
Love it! So beautiful and perfectly depicts the community spirit of Postcrossing! 💗
Wow i love it! Congratulations!!
That's beautiful!!!
Congratulations.。・"☆
Congratulations very appropriate design
Love this design. I feel the peace by just looking at it. Also it is so colorful. It makes everybody happy. Well done Pauline! ❤️
The design is sublime and Irradiates peace and hope. I really like it. Well done jury! And warm congrats to the winner.
Lovely!
Wow!! That's a beautiful card 🥰, 🥰🥰
Very nice!
Congratulations Pauline!
A very beautiful and elegant design, which really inspires in the observer feelings of kindness, hope, sweetness, peace.
Congratulations to Pauline, with my sincere wishes for peace to all Postcrossers and to the whole world: we really need it!
Greetings from Rome
The best card ever!!! <3 Peace to the world!!! <3
Lovely card. Congratulations to the winner.
Congratulations
yes - she is so beautiful
Peace and love!
So beautiful....I love the design and the message ❤
Congratulations to Pauline and the second and third place participants. Peace is more vital than ever in these times.
Bravo! I really like the message behind it, it illustrates well what postcards can bring and what Postcrossing is about!
Would it be possible to see the works of those who finished second / third / fourth... ?
Tres belle, Pauline! I love the doves and the gentle delivery of peace! Thanks!
The meaning behind this design is beautiful! Can’t wait to use this on WPd 🧡📮
I love it. Hopefully this year I will recieve one and I will leave space to be about to post some this year. Last year all my postcards were travelling so couldn't send anymore
beautiful card, i would love to know where to purchase them so i can send out. :)
Meus parabéns pela vitória!
Love the meaning of this card. So beautiful! Congrats to Pauline!
I am so looking forward to World Postcard Day - 2022! And, having this year's Postcrossing representation will make the event extra special! (How in the World could anyone possibly choose just one winner -- the 2nd and 3rd submissions were wonderful, too, and I'm sure there were many more from all those that entered). Congratulations to the winners, and Best Wishes to everyone participating on October 1!
Congrats!! I love the concept of the meaning of the postcard! World Peace is so much needed!! Can't wait til the printable file is ready so I can send to friends and send out on 10/1! This is my third year doing this and the cards just get better and better!! Congrats again Pauline!
Are the sponsors the same as last year? Finepaper and Technimpresa? So we could grab 2021's back side, change the attributions to the current ones and have a valid 2022 back side?
Wow so Cool
Lovely art. I can't wait to send them to others and I hope I will receive one as well. Beautiful card.
I love this postcard. Congratulations, Pauline ....
Very peacefull in the design and colors. Really what we currently need in our deperately violent wordnt the war in Ukraine, the one-year "anniversary" of the return of Talibans in Afganistan.
Thanks for the card. For sure, I'll be keeping slots to send some !
COngratulation ! And thanks.
Congratulations!!!
I like this card and her message.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🕊📬
I hope you will include the addresses of the Chinese postcrossers back in time for World Postcard Day? Otherwise it wouldn't be fair.
#worldpostcardday welcome :)
Congratulations Pauline!
That is a beautiful card. Perfect choice for this year's world :)
Whow, again an beautifully card!
Thanks to Pauline
C'est très beau!!!
C'est très beau!!!
Merci beaucoup Pauline!
I hope we will get a chance to see the other entries!
I love this illustration, thank you for making it and congratulations for winning!
Pauline's design is so elegant and beautiful.Thank you.
The second and third place designa are beautiful too, where can I download the high resolution files ?
I would really happy to have multiple designs for WPD !
Very pretty card, congratulations, cant wait to print and send
Great creations!
Congratulations to Pauline, Olie and Christina!
I mostly like the Finnish version of the postcard (with cranes), but I would love to print the French one.
Thank you Pauline, it's beautiful.
My plan is to make postcards with the residents where I work with and send them away to there partners, family, friends or the favorite care-aide or nurse.
Personally, I love to send al my friends a card and I will give my new neighbors a card. I moved in a new condo-building last March and off course I love to send the postcrossers a card.
I will ask my husband to send me one...hihi
I can't wait to print out Paulines card.
Now THIS ONE I'm excited about and will be printing and sending!!
Thanks for sharing your talents, Pauline!
I loved this year's winning design, without a doubt, very much in keeping with what we live in the world. May hope reach every mailbox!
I love this!
Beautiful!! 🕊❤️
Congratulations Paulinectart
Good job!!! Congrats!!!!
Very nice postcard, I like it
A dove delivering a message of PEACE right into your mailbox on a World Postal Day is a nice feeling to receive it from someone miles away. Congratulations to the winner for creating such a lovely design.
Wow! I like the design SO much! Especially the white leaves and pigeons on the blue background which really shows the feeling of Peace. I want to print and send it! Peace to the world, to everyone~
I love this design! It will be a pleasure to send and receive it.
That's beautiful!! 🥰 I look forward to sending (and hopefully receiving) it, such a good design! Congratulations to the winner!
Very beautiful postcards, I would really like to get such a collection and send to friends.
This year I will try to participate in World Postcard Day :) Love the design, Pauline, thanks!
Lovely, looking forward to sending and receiving it in october.
Beautiful postcard!
beautiful!! 😍
Superb design. Congratulations to Pauline, but also to Olie and Christina who complete the podium :)
A very beautiful postcard and a well-chosen topic. Peace to all of us!
I really love it! :)
What a great design; congratulations to Pauline for making it, and kudos to the committee for selecting it.
I love the design. I just ordered postcards - the files were so easy to use and upload to the Moo site.
Thanks for being a part of such an important, happy, and uplifting global event.
Cheers!
Very nice design! Fantastic.
How clever to show peace like this. A beautiful card.
It's gorgeous! I will definitely get a bunch for myself ❤
What a lovely, elegant design!
Such a lovely design, congratulations! 2nd and 3rd place getters equally beautiful. Now to get some printed 👍
Very beautiful card and love it
Lovely card！ Congratulations
So beautiful and meaningful! Peace, love and kindness to us all.
It's lovely! Congratulations, Pauline!
Hi Everybody, pls let me know how I get the WPD Badge and will I get address to send the cards or should I send to people I choose?
Its my first WPD...
Thanks for your hepl!
Congratulations on the winners and everyone who participated! The designs are all so lovely.
If it isn't too much trouble, I was wondering whether the designs for previous years are available somewhere for either download or purchase
I absolutely love this design, I can’t wait to send them 😍
@Nannerl74 On Oct 1 just take addresses as you normally would. Write and mail the cards and when the recipients register them, you'll get the badge. Sure, you can also send cards to your friends and family, but these don't naturally count towards the badge. And you are free to send ANY card on Oct 1, they don't need to be these official winner cards.
So nice design!
Beautiful design 😍 Congratulations to the winner !!
A creative idea and awesome design execution. Congratulations to you, Pauline !!!
Great design :)
I love Pauline's illustration, but also Olie and Christina's, is there a way to download them also in high resolution? It would be great to be able to send all three...
The design is being printed and I am excited for the lucky postcrossers who will receive this card from me. It is absolutely perfect. And yes Pauline Chrétien name is on the back to give her full credit. I will keep one for myself. :) Thank you!
This is a beautiful design, what a lovely art style! Congratulations Pauline!!!
Simply beautiful
Beautiful card and great design! Love and peace for everyone 💌💌💌
Congratulations to the winner!
The postcard is beautiful and I am going to enjoy sending it to many people.
May we all live in peace, wherever we are.
Nice card & congratulations to all the winners. I would like to get the card design for 2nd & 3rd winner as well.. Tremendous efforts have gone in from them too....
Will there be a special postal cancellation like last year?
What a lovely card full of love! This time, I totally agree with the judge team's choice.It brings us love and hope, I love it!
CN post is back to normal and we are so eager and excited to get cards feom pc in the near fulture.
Hello all. I'm new here and I need some tips. I am not understanding what is expected on Would Postcard day. Do I need to register specifically to send a postcard on that day and use the fabulous special event post card?
I simply LOVE it. This is the very meaning mail should have, now most then ever. Peace and love between people.
Congratulations to all the participants and to the winners! Can't wait to send and receive these cards. I missed the first one, but do have the second one. By the way, is it possible to get files of the 2nd and 3rd placed winners to print?
Congratulations to the winner!
The second and third place are beautiful too, is it possible to download them also so we could send more varieties of postcards for WPD?
Why not offer downloadable files for the 2nd and 3rd prize winning entry as well? So they can also be printed and used for posting in WPD?
I love this postcard! Just made sure to download the images for it - I missed last years so I'm not missing this years' WPD!
Congratulations Pauline!!! It's a beautiful design and loved it too.
I am very excited to use this beautiful card! Do we get to see some of the other entries also? That would be fun to see all the different ideas people came up with.
just ordered mine :)
Congrats to the winners 🎊🎉
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