~ Design & Technology ~
Postage Stamp Design
One interesting artist that has been used for stamp designs is the Dutch artist and mathematician MC Escher - not surprisingly Holland has
used several designs. The fact that tessellating shapes can create such intriguing images makes this style of graphic particularly attractive. Equally interesting has been the Channel Islands - that in 1996 used film detectives for inspiration - Peter Sellers as Inspector Clousau and Margaret Rutherford as Miss Marple - amongst a number of others. ... And why stop with simple two-dimensional designs when
Switzerland raised the creative stakes and perhaps started a future trend by creating a textured ‘embroidery’ stamp on a satin weave polyester base ( June 2000). But why stop
there - Switzerland after all is
also famous for chocolate -
Whilst edible stamps may
seem great fun this was just a
look-alike chocolate stamp
But raises the fun factor of
there -
seem great fun this was just a
look-
‘licking stamps’ to a new height.
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