Attention Stamp Geeks! Eames Stamps are on the Way!
Well, postage may be going up a penny soon, but it seems worth it just to be able to have this stamp. USPS is releasing an Eames stamp on June 17th. I haven’t been this giddy since the Frederick Law Olmsted stamps. I still have sheets and sheets of those somewhere that I can’t bear to use, along with the folk art stamps and the Noguchi stamps. It’s a good thing I do most of my mailing via the internet, since I can’t bear to use any of my stamps.
As you can see, each sheet has 16 different Eames images on it with the logo enlarged and in the middle. The composition is genius; I love the way they played with the rectangles and squares and how they relate to one another the way Charles and Ray would have done it (IMHO). I’m going to have to keep a sheet just to put in a frame.
It’s funny how I wind up trying to track down images online. I first caught wind of this in Metropolis, so I then tried to find the image at usps.com, but it’s too small and it sucked, so I Googled “Eames Stamp” and found that several other bloggers were hip to this news way before I was. I wound up checking out Happy Mundane and seeing their image, and from there linking over to flickr member eamesd’s image. By the way, eamesd’s flickr account is definitely worth spending some time perusing. So thanks to all of the above, and thanks to Metropolis, where I first heard the good news.
May 7th, 2008 at 7:50 am
I can’t wait for these too!
ps. eamesd is Eames Demetrios, the grandson of Charles and Ray
May 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am
I am not at all a stamp geek - but I do feel totally geeky about these. Love them!
May 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am
How do you get em? Just go to the post office that day and ask?? (feels silly to ask, but I’ve never done it.)
May 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am
by the way, 300 DPI here: http://tinyurl.com/2g7sjr
May 7th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Alice, thanks for the info - I was trying to get the post up in a hurry yesterday and did not have time to read too much about eamesd - I knew it was something that would suck up a lot of time!
Kit, I AM a total stamp geek
Neil, I’ll probably order mine online, but yes, they should be in the P.O.s right around that day. You can never guarantee that a particular branch will have a certain stamp, especially if some big Eames aficionado comes in before you and wipes them out. However, I should think if people were able to get Star Wars stamps with ease, Eames should be no problem!
becky