New Dutch Design people greeting each other
Date of issue April 22, print run 25.000 stamp sheets.
People greeting each other
A child strokes a jumping cat. A man and a woman (depicted from the back) have their arms around each other. The woman's scarf flutters in the wind and extends onto the adjacent stamp. A man and a jumping woman embrace each other, seen from the side. Swirling lines represent the blowing of the wind, which is underscored on both stamps by floating, swirling leaves from a tree.
Design
The schematized 2D images consist of colorful, simplified, and clear planes and shapes with round, curved, and straight edges. The businesslike, detached, flat, and planar stamps are naturally devoid of shadows.
Designer trio New Dutch Design 2025
Sam Oerlemans (25 years) from Dongen, Jip van der Heijden (25 years) from Uden & Denzel Catalina (20 years) from Curaçao.
Grid / layout & typography designers
Chantal Idzerda, Jolijn Bos, Maureen Ketting & Mello Rakel
New Dutch Design postage stamp sheets
With the aid of the accompanying image, it is only possible to distinguish corresponding facets and details on the reasonably recognizable, stylized images of the four New Dutch Design stamp sheets by comparison. In terms of similarity, the stamp sheets match well. 1) Stamp subject: rituals/customs such as making and drinking coffee and tea, greetings, music & dancing. 2) Unity in color usage: light green, light blue (cyan), purple (magenta), orange & black. On each sheet, one of the colors dominates except black. 3) Vsimplified, clear and well-organized images
4) To experience, enjoy, or savor
To truly do justice to the experience, enjoyment, or pleasure of drinking tea and coffee, greeting, making music, and dancing for each individual, the design trio has incorporated calm, clarity, and simplicity into both stamps. In this way, the moment or period of one of the four activities is individually honored. After all, it is me time! A sense of conviviality is certainly present in both stamps: the figures are focused on one another in stance, posture, and gaze!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, it is necessary to make some corrections and additions to the article.
As usual, it appears that not one, but several student teams worked on this four-part issue. The designers of the previous issue are no longer involved in the new one. Their successors are Renée Wiersma, Sylvana Versteege, Famke Ruiter, and Lisa van den Broek. The grid team is the same as that of the previous edition.
The greetings on the first stamp are (reasonably) static, with the child wearing a hat & cat and the couple consisting of two women.
The greeting of the couple (two women) on the second stamp consists of a lively, exuberant embrace.
Details such as thick clothing, a scarf, falling leaves, swirling wind, and orange and yellow colors refer to autumn.
Autumn? It's spring, isn't it?
Indeed, Fer. The preparations for this issue already started in late August / early September.
In the previous edition of this issue, however, I could not find any reference to a season! Perhaps in both remaining issues.
According to another article on Postzegelblog.nl, the issue 'making music as a ritual' will be released on August 11, and the issue 'dancing as a ritual' on September 22.
Why not schedule the issues so that the stamps with an autumnal look appear in September??!
My daughter Elske still has to walk 275 km (having already walked well over two-thirds of the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela) when she can post another article of mine!