It would seem that I have become a digital stamp collector over the past couple of hours, trawling the web for interesting stamp designs from around the world. Here is a selection from my travels (around the web). Where possible I have tried to find out the designers name to accompany their work. Also on my travels I have learnt a new word for my vocabulary - Philately - the study of stamps and postal history and other related items.
Israeli Electronic computer stamp 1964:
Reel to reel electronic computer and punch card. Brilliant colour scheme.
70's modernist stamps from Israel:
Israeli environment stamps - 1975 designed by Eliezer Weishoff.
Beautiful stamps addressing both noise and industrial pollution. Fantastic illustration and composition. It's obvious they come from a set.
Israeli Arbor Day stamps from 1975:
Pretty psychedelic colour use. Adds to their charm and is typical of their era. Retro might be a good way to go with my own designs? Tone down the colour a bit though, eh?
Canadian 1871-1971 census stamp:
Stamp from the Canadian Post. Designed by Hans Kleefeld.
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija) stamp 1961:
Uruguayan stamps from the years 1971 - 1974:
Fantastic use of overprinting and iconography / symbolism for clarity of message.
Venezuela 1975:
Bulgarian Black Sea Resort stamps 1972:
Not sure who designed these but the sophisticated colour pallet is fanastic. Again different values are depicted through the use of colour.
Great Britain Energy Resources stamps 1978
Designed by Peter Murdoch.
Norwegian Science Stamps 1966
Beautiful set of stamps from 1966 dedicated to the Norwegian engineer Samuel Eyde and the scientist Kristian Olaf Birkeland. As the Royal Mail competition is asking to focus on 'UK firsts' it think that science and engineering would be a great subject matter. These stamps are a particularly good example of how the simplicity of iconography can work wonders at such a small scale with limited colour.
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