a sneak preview of my new stamp designs for ‘PostNL’ (the dutch post office) which arrived back from the printers this week… more images of the complete set in the coming week
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paid and delivered
we are out of the office today as our set of four new stamps for ‘post nl’ are being printed in groningen, i’m not allowed to show them yet but here’s a sneak preview
beeke’d beans
the dutch post office visited the studio today to discuss the stamp designs we are currently working on (of which more news soon) and this classic series came up in the discussion,: made in 2003 by none other than ‘anton beeke’ to comemorate 250 years of dutch coffee company ‘douwe egberts’, using a beautifully simple iconic coffee cup and a ‘coffee bean’ pattern
the more i think about it the more it strikes me that strong stamp designs very closely resemble posters in their singularity… (maybe this idea needs some more thought but i know what i mean…) these particular stamps were actually one of the first ‘scratch & sniff’ productions, more classic designs can be seen on the PostNL archive site here
post modern
as i’m currently working on a new postage stamp series for PostNL i have a particular interest in these wonderful ‘extended’ paintings of stamps sent to me via mister ‘paul scott’
digital stamps
the museum of communication in the hague have commissioned ‘fabrique’ to design a new archive site documenting more than 100 years of postage stamp design in the netherlands; complete with a timeline, searchable designer database and several special theme pages… (thanks to ‘antoine achten’ for the link)