Stamps Of The World: A Field Guide
Posted by Scott
Gavin Potenza is back with more incredibly authentic stamp designs. You may remember Gavin from his German stamp series I posted on a while back, this time he brings us stamps from all over the world. Loving these, particularly Canada and Brazil. More images and info are over at Gavin’s site.
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Kristian Roebuck says:
November 26, 2008 at 8:06 amThanks for posting more of Gavin’s stamp designs. Another great set. I think I’m still in love with the original German stamps.
Igor says:
November 26, 2008 at 10:27 amhttp://roupanovaral.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/honda-biz-com-tudo-ela-combina-e-com-plagio-combina/
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regards from brazil!
your art is amazing.
Joaquim Marquès Nielsen says:
November 27, 2008 at 7:06 amI still can’t believe that these aren’t real stamps… absolutely stunning. I love the duality of the pine trees on the top one there. Great stuff.
Harley Turan says:
November 27, 2008 at 2:30 pmWow, these are incredible.
Scott, you should do a post on great ‘duality’ designs. Everything from the pine trees above to Escher’s illusions to stuff like the OS X Directory icon: http://images.apple.com/br/server/macosx/features/images/directory_hero20071009.png
I’ve always been fascinated with things like that. A strong pattern is the basis of a good design (as proven by your 1971 poster). Anyways, enough of me telling you what to do, you seem to be good enough finding great things to post by yourself :)
Luis says:
November 27, 2008 at 5:10 pmScott, or anyone who can help, I need some help please and Im getting kinda desperate. There is very little options in my town for professional prints. Im trying to print a tabloid poster I made (CMYK FOGRA27 profile). My monitor was profiled using a Spyder Pro 3. The colors in the screen appears as nice shades of red, but every printshop I have visited is giving me very dark prints, like burned. I already tried to compensate by producing a “clearer” version, but guess what, the resulting print looked THE SAME as before. Any tips or ideas?
Thanks in advance.