Five photographers have squashed their boldest, bravest and most colourful work down to the size of a postcard – which you have the chance to buy

Designer Laura Lees meticulously embroiders modernist buildings of Edinburgh on to postcards

In the 60s and 70s, we sent postcards with brief and often hilarious descriptions of holiday romances, disasters and weather. Collector Tom Jackson posted his favourites on Twitter on @PastPostcard. Now, they are in a book, Postcard from the Past, published by 4th Estate

An invitation to illustrators from around the world to create bird postcards depicting the life of the refugee resulted in a remarkable exhibition and book

To mark St Patrick’s Day, the Photographers’ Gallery in London is releasing newly restored pictures of rural Ireland in the 1950s and 1960s by a pioneer of British and Irish postcard art, John Hinde

Artist Anja Wülfing has a knack for combining the antiquated with the absurd, painting colourful creatures onto turn-of-the-century photos

In her series Flora, artist Angela Deane creates colourful characters from vintage postcards of flowers and plants

Nathan and Sam T Smith’s Me & EU postcards were sent to European artists the day article 50 was triggered to encourage post-Brexit collaboration.