V is for Vmail

The Philatelic Alphabet, was the name of a show featuring an alphabet of stamp designs produced as a project of the AIGA/San Francisco in 1997. The special stamp images that accompany the A to Z definitions were created by designers at 26 San Francisco Bay Area studios. Dickson Printers in Atlanta, later published a boxed version of the 26 alphabet stamps along with stamp-collecting tools nestled in boxes and a beautifully designed book describing the stamp definitions. You can learn more about the individual stamps from this project (in addition to all-things-stamps) at this site: http://alphabetilately.com/credits.html

Coming to a Post Office Near You, Summer 2008

In recognition of their groundbreaking contributions to architecture, furniture design, manufacturing and photographic arts, designers Charles and Ray Eames will be honored by the USPS this summer with a pane of 16 stamps designed by Derry Noyes of Washington, DC. If you’ve ever sat in a stackable molded chair, you’ve experienced their creativity. Perhaps best known for their furniture, the Eameses were husband and wife as well as design partners. Their extraordinary body of creative work — which reflected the nation’s youthful and inventive outlook after World War II — also included architecture, films and exhibits. Without abandoning tradition, Charles and Ray Eames used new materials and technology to create high-quality products that addressed everyday problems and made modern design available to the American public.