The design track for these children's stamps featuring children's drawings differs significantly from that of all other stamp issues. It is customary for a designer to receive guidelines prior to the design track, which he must adhere to. In other words, first...
Fellow journalist Hero Wit wanted to keep things current with articles on the stamp blog due to my expected absence. He 'observed' me with two articles on the blog with 'In short (202) with 'Attention to the latest nature edition...
The Aesthetic Design Department of PTT has published a particularly interesting brochure entitled 'The Summer Stamp and the Computer' regarding the design of the 1970 summer stamps (nvph 965/69), covering the production of the stamps, combined with technical drawings and a preliminary study of...
In what ways does the child come into contact with the news in the newspaper, on the radio, and on television? After the completion of the entire design and printing process of the 1993 children's stamps, Oxenaar provides an imaginative, associative...
In the fourth and final installment of *Spraakmakend geld – de Nederlandse gulden*, attention is paid to the Lieftinck ten-guilder note, which is featured on the eighth stamp of this issue. Also, at the end of this article, some background information on...
In the third edition of *Spraakmakend geld – de Nederlandse gulden*, attention is paid to the partially visible banknotes on the 5th, 7th, 9th, and 10th stamps. I am saving the 8th stamp, featuring an image of the Lieftinck ten-guilder note, for the concluding...
“Ootje Oxenaar (Robert Deodaat Emile Oxenaar, who died on June 13, 2017, at the age of 87) was one of the rare creatives who managed to hold his own in the corporate world. Designing goes hand in hand with great bureaucracy,” according to de Volkskrant of...
You are already aware that relational similarities and contrasts exist between stamp images in form (NVPH 965, designer Oxenaar), color, detail, and structure (NVPH 978/82, designers Graatsma and Slothouber). But that there are also 'causal relationships in the circumstances of stamp design' and stamps connected to them...
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