Stamp books research

"According to Schmitz, sign-oriented references can become poetical facts that affect various resonant nerves in human sensibility". [Bernhard Uske]

 I find this book quite useful because it showcases contemporary effective stamp designs and contains a theoretical, contextual essay on postage stamp designs as public signage and country diplomats.

Stamp with a character from a comic series.

Blank stamps for children to doodle in.

Textural strokes indicate the five lines of a score.

Light and dark.

This book shows great examples of well designed stamps over the world.

Animal (and child face?) Silhouettes.

Glad a Hk stamp I saw on Pinterest is seen here again.

Beautiful use of graphic shapes and colour.

eagle or fire?

Like the overlapping of the symbols and the archery target.

Illusional