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.