William Graatsma

Children's stamps 1970 invite playful-creative play

Written in: Dutch • redactie • 31 Januari 2021

The freestanding cube shapes on the 1970 Children's Stamps poster invited me, with their multicolored nature, to work with cube shapes in a playful way as well. With the cut-out hexagonal cube shapes from the 1970 children's stamp issue, I have, with great pleasure,...

Preliminary designs 220 years of the postal service: insightful comic-visual story

Written in: Dutch • redactie • 3 February 2019

The functioning of our national postal service in society (as a public utility) is amply reflected in the preliminary designs for 220 years of the postal service through the interaction of delivering and receiving letters or parcels. A designer, who is asked by PostNL to...

Rob over Chessboard on stamp sheet: @Elizadoug I always use the Google Translate app with the camera function myself.

Willem Meerkerk over Mouth-watering tart stamps with a sweet scent: I do see a trend in PostNL's new issues. More and more "self-adhesive" stamps, just like with the 2026 children's stamps. htt…

Haas over New Priority Mourning Stamp Netherlands: Unusual: new rates taking effect on a Sunday. PostNL faces a challenge. With priority, it is guaranteed that the next working day (Mon…

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: Are there any online references to the translation of the different stamps? I've been looking around and am not having much luck.

Elizadoug over Chessboard on stamp sheet: I bought one to frame as a gift to my father. And it was semi-difficult to find, but not too terribly expensive.

John Petterson over Drones, Drones on Drones: Nice article! It has inspired me to start collecting drones on stamps as well.