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As an 88-year-old stamp collector, I finally decided to consult my archive. Better late than never. A particularly attractive experience. Only now do I discover that I possess a rarity of special and noteworthy philatelic items...

You can experience music and literature, apply visual arts such as painting and sculpture, and already perceive (understand) architecture. Afterwards, as a spectator of a painting, sculpture, architecture, song, dance, and literature, you can fully enjoy it. Graphic...

With the announcement of the second New Dutch Design issue, the visions and perspectives of the student designers come to the fore more clearly and convincingly. Across four New Dutch Design issues, a consistent perspective / structure is recognizably present, consisting of a...

Graphic designer Klaus Welp from Finland has won the prize for a stamp featuring a shared image in the 2026 PostEurope design competition. Sandra Smulders is responsible for the Dutch adaptation. The square design commemorates the 70th anniversary of the EUROPA stamp....

The King's Day celebrations in Dokkum start as early as the weekend, from Friday evening through Monday. Hence the early posting of my weekly contribution. There are similarities between designing a logo, corporate identity, and banknote for a national event and designing postage stamps. Hence...

On the occasion of the anniversary exhibition 'At Home with Jan Steen, Life in the Brewery' at Museum De Lakenhal in Leiden from April 2 to August 23, I have compiled the accompanying article. It is not only the anniversary that is attractive for attention...

The Flemish comic artist and writer Willy Vandersteen (1913 – 1990) founded Studio Vandersteen in 1952, where various comics were developed. The Suske and Wiske comic became an international success. The first Suske and Wiske comic was on March 30...

The name Jan Toorop might suggest a single style, but his work actually reveals a surprising versatility. In this blog, we explore the various 'worlds' in which he moved, from Impressionism to Symbolism. The occasion is the exhibition 'De...

On the WorldPride Amsterdam 2026 stamp sheet, the visual identity of WorldPride is applied in a unique way across four diagonal stripes. These stripes suggest movement, action, and dynamism through a colorful, kaleidoscopic design featuring geometric shapes. WorldPride will this...

On Monday, March 30, 2026, the 34th series of the long-running stamp series *Experience Nature* will be released. This new issue contains the butterfly stamps numbered 331 through 339. Later this year, another twenty stamps within the same issue will follow,...

Few Dutch politicians have left such a lasting mark on society as Willem Drees. As the architect of social security and the founder of the later AOW, he became the symbol of austerity, reliability, and social progress in the post-war years....

The remarkably 'philatelic' headline of the AD article of March 10, 2026, “VNO-NCW wants politicians to come up with a 'clear vision on the business community': ‘Don’t regulate everything at the postage stamp level’”, prompted me to consult my archives regarding the VNO-NCW postage stamp, which in 1999...

By way of a rare exception, I am donating an article this time about 'The Bull' by Paulus Potter (1625 – 1654), which was issued on a framed stamp on January 15, 2026. The reason? On the occasion of the unveiling of the restored painting 'The Bull'...

Seemingly a stamp with little substance, featuring four figures combined with the new V&D logo, which became known nationwide partly through the issuance of a Corporate Stamp on April 24, 2002. In this V&D stamp (our first Corporate Stamp...

A postal stationery item is a pre-franked postal item (such as a postcard or an airmail sheet [aerogram]), on which the postage, usually in the form of a printed stamp or text, is already present at the time of purchase. The sender therefore does not need to affix a separate stamp to it...

An inconspicuous marginal feature with graphic markings at the bottom of a film strip from an analog roll has been, for designers, the most characteristic element of analog photography as a nostalgic subject from more than half a century ago...