Typophile - Postage Stamps by Type Designers - Comments

What have you got?

KatRanPress — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:03:52 -0700

What have you got?

> a collection of postage

david hamuel — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:59:55 -0700

> a collection of postage stamps designed by type designers

Only Latin?

Stamp with John Warnock’s

sii — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:29:45 -0700

Stamp with John Warnock’s picture on it?

http://www.bvmi.de/hist_vi_06.htm

Is this any use? Dekek

miss c — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:46:14 -0700

Is this any use? Dekek Birdsall designed them for the RSA’s 250th anniversary. (Sorry for the bad quality image.)

Geesh, there are so many of

KatRanPress — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:28:04 -0700

Geesh, there are so many of these guys (so far only men) who I didn’t know about. I’ve been able to acquire every stamp by every designer on my initial list, and I’m both relieved and discouraged to learn that this collection is not yet complete. Please, keep them coming.

Oh, great idea, Michael!

Florian Hardwig — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:01:08 -0700

Oh, great idea, Michael! I’m looking forward to your publication, as I’m into type and stamps.

Gerrit Noordzij did some ›postzegels‹, too—and he writes about that in his book De handen van de zeven zusters.

stamps designed by type designers
I second Jackie: Where do you draw the line? I mean, before digital typesetting and the possibility of using fonts, every tiny lettering on a stamp was kind of a type design, no?
So, I assume you’re focussing on font designers (i.e. not lettering artists/engraving legends ›only‹)? Then, Gerrit Noordzij could count himself lucky, at least having done Ruse … ;)

Jackie, I so appreciate your

Bruce — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:25:40 -0700

Jackie, I so appreciate your comment about this!

It may not still be the case, but years ago in the Portland (Maine) Museum of Art, there was a display showing some Winslow Homer pencil sketches of the Civil War, and the resulting engravings that appeared in Harper’s Weekly. Homer is a «favorite son» in Maine, so one can appreciate his being made much of, and the Museum owns a number of his works. However, that does not excuse the fact that there was no mention whatsoever of the unsung engraver, the process of translation from pencil sketch to printing block, and so forth. A lost opportunity for taeching people something. End of rant.

I’m planning to include

KatRanPress — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 06:05:24 -0700

I’m planning to include whatever information is in the catalogues: engravers, printers, number of stamps. I’ll probably skip the information about perforations and watermarks and paper, though.

Are you going to give any of

Jackie T — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 05:04:47 -0700

Are you going to give any of the engravers credit as well?
They too are artisans - and tend to get overlooked, and they shouldn’t be.

In the U.S.A. engravers were still doing the postage masters by hand right up into the 1980s.

Danish typographer and

claaspb — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:27:08 -0700

Danish typographer and graphic designer Claus Achton Friis also made a number of stamps. The picture shows the different elements of the design: The type, the picture painted by Friis and finally the stamp on the left.

vince frost also designed

insertmoney — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:16:34 -0700

vince frost also designed some stamps here in oz.
hopefully some use.

Don’t forget the stamps

Bruce — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:46:51 -0700

Don’t forget the stamps from WAD’s Reform of the Paper Currency, issued by the fictitious Antipodes.

I seem to recall he did the design for a real stamp but I’d have to look back in my notes to see what I can find. Or you could ask Paul Shaw.

I’ve just found five Dutch

KatRanPress — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:38:12 -0700

I’ve just found five Dutch stamps by Max Kisman.

Peter Biľak has designed

peterbruhn — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:17:50 -0700

Peter Biľak has designed stamps”.

jean-benoit lévy

TypoGirlie12 — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:58:44 -0700

jean-benoit lévy

Postage Stamps by Type Designers

KatRanPress — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 09:04:36 -0700

I’m in the process of assembling a collection of postage stamps designed by type designers with the hope of making a Web site and publishing a series of books on the subject. Although I’ve acquired several hundred stamps by the following thirteen designers, I’m certain I must be missing someone. Is anyone aware of additional type designers who have designed postage stamps?

Neville Brody
Walter Brudi
S.H. De Roos
Eric Gill
S.L. Hartz
Lance Hidy
Jan van Krimpen
Erik Speikermann
Reynolds Stone
Georg Trump
Gerard Unger
Julian Waters
Hermann Zapf

Many thanks.

Michael