Reindeer, peacocks and foxes adorn these Christmas stamps developed by Studio Tord Boontje for Dutch national delivery organization PostNL.
Produced in a predominantly red and blue colour scheme, every of the 10 stamp styles functions a various creature surrounding by tumbling snowflakes.
“I needed to present how crucial it is to be collectively in December or to feel of one particular one more during this time,” explained Boontje, who served as head of Design Merchandise at the Royal College of Art for 4 many years.
“That’s why I featured stories of individuals and animals on every stamp and ensured that there is interaction between the figures,” he additional.
The designer purposefully averted the “regular Christmas clichés” and integrated animals such as foxes and swans, which aren’t typically connected with the festive season.
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“As a counterbalance I utilised acquainted elements this kind of as deer, hares, squirrels, and pine trees,” the designer additional.
A pale blue stamp displays a swallow and peacock in flight, whilst an additional all-red design and style displays squirrels perched on trees that appear as if cut-out from the background.
Flashes of yellow are incorporated on a stamp that exhibits a girl feeding a crow, although a colour contrast is created in one more style displaying a red fox nestled into an all-blue warren.
PostNL previously partnered with Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde to create a set of 10 stamps that depicted the Netherlands as a spidery network of light, as noticed from above.
The country has a history of commissioning designer stamps. Dutch designer Richard Hutten designed an eight-web page guide for Royal TNT Submit, and Belgian artists Studio Work created a stamp for Dutch king Willem-Alexander that featured a digitally modelled picture of his face.
Other notable stamp styles contain Royal Mail’s set celebrating 20th-century design classics, and award-winning braille stamps made by René Put.
