Greeting stamps

Greeting stamps 1993: analysis of the visual language

Written in: Dutch • redactie • March 14 2021

Spanish typographic designer Montse Hernández Sala, who has been living in the Netherlands for years, designed a stamp sheet in 1993 consisting of two sets of five Wishing Stamps featuring the same high-contrast, multicolored images (nvph 1546/47). Both stamps received little appreciation at the time. The reason? For lack of...

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Peter over Delta Works: The Netherlands and water with climate adaptation: Thank you very much for the nice explanation of the design.

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Yvonne Kruse over The piss-pots of Tilburg: What a nice article, Willem!

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