Every year on April 11, attention is drawn to Parkinson's worldwide during World Parkinson's Day. This is the birthday of James Parkinson. He became known for his publication (An Essay on the Shaking Palsy) in 1817. This has...
On Monday, October 23, 2023, the stamp sheet 'The Compliment', consisting of six stamps, will be issued as the fifth Dutch Design issue. In a surprisingly inventive manner, the optimizing realization of complimentary expressions through color, border line, and cohesive stamp pairs is rendered in a figurative-symbolic sense...
Generations of Dutch children have grown up with the Bosatlas. The Bosatlas's name recognition is enormous and extends far beyond the walls of the school. But who was Pieter Roelf Bos and what motivated him to map...
In 2019, many famous and unknown people passed away. I have made a personal selection from the following categories: sports, design, diseases, fashion, film, politics, royalty, mountains, and animals. Niki Lauda Niki Lauda (February 22, 1949 – May 20...
Wim Crouwel is no longer with us. Wim Crouwel, one of the most important post-war Dutch designers, created clear, seemingly simple work. He was praised internationally for it, but also reviled in his own country. He passed away on Thursday, September 19, 2019, at the age of 90.
The issuance of the Day of the Stamps coincides with the start of POSTEX 2018 at Omnisport in Apeldoorn on Friday, October 19. This annual international stamp event runs through Sunday, October 21. The ten equal...
“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...
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