Stuffy space on an airy asthma postage stamp!

Graphic designer Reynoud Homan considers the word 'breath' as ​​a verb (in the phrase 'I breathe' and 'do you breathe?') and as a noun (the breath). The main activity of the Asthma Center in Davos, Switzerland, is aimed at catching one's breath with breathing and/or taking a breath. Adam The inclusion of the word 'adem' and the size of the letters symbolize, in both a literal and figurative sense, the central role of the Dutch Asthma Center in Davos. The word 'adem' in light blue is, in terms of color intensity, the darkest light blue of the stamp image. With this, designer Homan depicts/symbolizes the shortness of breath of a COPD patient in our low-lying Netherlands. The severity of the shortness of breath determines urgent admission to the Swiss asthma center. Letter progression Catching one's breath in Davos (and losing shortness of breath) is symbolically represented in the progression of the horizontally placed informative 'line text' “Nederlands Astma Centrum Davos” in the background. The four words are repeated multiple times in extremely small light blue letters (without spaces or capital letters). The line spacing decreases increasingly as you move downwards. At the very bottom, the typographic lines overlap. The result? The intensification of the light blue color creates a transition from light to dark. With this light-dark contrast, designer Homan depicts easy – difficult breathing in dirty/polluted and in pure/clean air at the high-altitude Asthma Center. The date of the first day of issue of the stamp, August 5, 1997, is the maximum card of a breathing person cancelled. The color scheme of the card is evident from the preliminary design. My Google search for hospitals on Swiss stamps (in French, German, or English) reveals that this subject received no attention, let alone the asthma sanatorium in Davos. However, I did find images on a stamp from India (Govind Ballabh Pant Hospital Delhi [2014]) featuring images inside and of the hospital: the surgical team and the exterior of the hospital. Such a combination on a single stamp is unique. Both images can be found separately on stamps from Hungary (Metropo Hospital Fovaros [1953]) and Singapore (50 years of female GP practices).