In the 1967 Penrose Annual I posted last week there's an article by Bernard Orna on the "Growing scope of stamp design" illustrated by examples from around the world. But what struck me was how great the British examples were. Amongst the ones used for the article were the International Telecommunication Union stamps below, designed by Andrew Restall. Very cool.
So I went digging around to see what else I had and found some superb examples, like that absolutely beautiful, David Gentleman designed, Concorde stamp. He also designed those National Productivity Year stamps.
Anyway, I've started another Flickr set. There's not much there right now but I'll be adding to it over the coming months.
Wonderful examples. I love the Concorde stamp. Are any of these part of a bigger series? I can't wait to see the rest of your collection
Posted by: Dave | 19 February 2008 at 07:36 PM
Yes Dave, some sets are, well, not full sets. The Chemistry set (bottom left) for example is missing the "starch" stamp and the National Productivity set is missing a stamp too. The Concorde stamp was accompanied by two others (by other designers) but they're not great. Gentleman was a genius.
Posted by: Richard | 19 February 2008 at 09:25 PM
Don't know how you keep on coming up with this great stuff, but you do. You're the only person I know who makes stamp collecting look groovy.
Posted by: Daniel Neville | 20 February 2008 at 06:26 AM