11 November 2008 11 am eastern

Postage stamps by type designers

Neville Brody, Wim Crouwel, Adrian Frutiger, Eric Gill, Erik Spiekermann, and Hermann Zapf are among the creators of postage stamps by type designers on display at Kat Ran Press.

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10 Responses to “Postage stamps by type designers”

  1. Josh Stodola said on November 11th, 2008 at 3:45 pm:

    I have been wondering the name of a certain font for a loooong time now, and ironically enough I spotted it on Neville Brody’s stamp page. The font is called FF Tyson. So THANKS for posting this!

  2. Connor Sears said on November 11th, 2008 at 9:55 pm:

    I always admired Wim Crouwel’s stamps. Really is a dying art I would think. Are icons the digital equivalent in terms of size constraints? Either way, really cool stuff.

  3. Greg said on November 12th, 2008 at 10:30 am:

    Walter Brudi’s work is so hot. Makes me want to lick it.

    Related: Did you ever see the Eames’ stamp set by the USPS>?

  4. Jeffrey Zeldman said on November 12th, 2008 at 10:44 am:

    Did you ever see the Eames’ stamp set by the USPS?

    Have now!

    Want!

  5. fill/stroke.com » Postage stamps by type designers said on November 12th, 2008 at 10:49 am:

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  6. Steven Spicer said on November 12th, 2008 at 1:37 pm:

    Having just read the previous post about website underwear, um, katranpress doesn’t seem to have a background color set. oops.

  7. Jon Williams said on November 14th, 2008 at 9:25 am:

    Interesting.. Makes me want to make some.

  8. J David Eisenberg said on November 23rd, 2008 at 12:46 am:

    The US Postal Service lets you design customized postage (see here). Sadly, it only works with uploadable images. Even more sadly, when I attempted to upload an image, I was greeted with this: “We’re sorry! The only browsers that Stamp Expressions currently support are Internet Explorer 5.0 and above.” Your tax dollars at work.

  9. Flüge said on December 1st, 2008 at 10:08 am:

    David, it’s anyway a nice idea to create your own stamps. What’s the matter that you can upload a picture? That’s great, since you can make anything, then take a picture and then upload it. sadly, I don’t need american stamps:)

  10. Hochzeitsfotograf Hamburg said on January 1st, 2009 at 6:57 am:

    Thanks for this information David. Especially the work of Hermann Zapf is wonderful.

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