Stamps
Design: Michael Mahovlich
Client: Canada Post
Date: 2012
“Canada Post has just released a new collection of stamps featuring the Canadian Flag. I took two photos for the project. One is used on the ‘Day of issue’ booklet, featuring two kids jumping off a dock. The other is on one of the stamps in the collection. I shot a 1967 11-window Volkswagen Micro Bus in Velvet Green. This particular bus has been lowered and customized by Volkswagen connoisseur A.J. Walsh. A.J. is very proud to have his bus on a stamp and is currently seeking permission from his wife to have the stamp tattooed on his leg. I have promised to document the event if it happens, so keep an eye on this blog for further developments.”
Via Michael Mahovlich Blog, and our friends at Applied Arts.
January 20th, 2012
Design: Rolf Harder and Rolf Harder & Associates Inc.
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1984
August 23rd, 2011
Design: Rolf Harder and Rolf Harder & Associates Inc.
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1982
August 23rd, 2011
Design: Ernst Roch
Client: Canada Post Corporation
Date: 1989
© Canada Post Corporation {1989}. Reproduced with Permission
July 27th, 2011
Design: Herman Schwartz
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1948
“The wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Philip Mountbatten on November 20, 1947, was commemorated by both British and Canadian Post Offices. Since the wedding announcement was made on July 9, 1947, the British Post Office did not issue a commemorative stamp because there was insufficient time to prepare an issue. Instead, a slogan postmark was made for use from November 20 to the end of November. The Canadian Post Office issued a commemorative stamp for the wedding, but only after the event, in February, 1948.”
Via our friends at Postal History Corner
- Hannah Wise
April 28th, 2011
Design: Isabelle Toussaint
Client: Canada Post
Date: 2011
Approved by the Queen herself, these Royal Wedding Commemorative stamps will be issued on April 29, the actual wedding day of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Interestingly, there was not a stamp issued, despite all the hype, for Charles and Diana’s wedding. The last Canada Post stamp commemorating a royal wedding was issued in 1948 to honour of the nuptials of the Queen and Prince Philip, the current groom’s grandparents. I suppose this has something to do with the certainty that William will eventually be King and his first born, the next heir to the throne.
-Via
- Hannah Wise
April 28th, 2011
Design: Subplot, Matthew Clarke
Client: Canada Post
Date: 2011
Created to celebrate the United Nation’s International Year of Forests, the stamp is a reminder of how forests have influenced and defined the Canadian experience. We have much to celebrate, we still have forests to admire.
April 26th, 2011
Design: Ron Bolt
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1979
Canada Post Corporation {1979}. Reproduced with Permission.
February 25th, 2011
Design: Herman Herbert Schwartz
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1943
Canada Post Corporation {1943}. Reproduced with Permission.
January 18th, 2011
Design: George Sarras Fanais
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1968
Canada Post Corporation {1968}. Reproduced with Permission.
January 16th, 2011
Design: Harvey Thomas Prosser
Client: Canada Post
Date: 1966
Canada Post Corporation {1966}. Reproduced with Permission.
October 20th, 2010
Design/Illustration: Paprika
Client: Canada Post
Date: 2010
This domestic stamp is not only beautifully crafted by the legendary design firm Paprika, but has also been designed with a 10-cent surcharge which goes to the Canada Post Foundation for Mental Health. In 2008, Canada Post set out to eliminate the misconceptions associated with mental illness, establishing the Canada Post Foundation for Mental Health, raising $2.5 million so far.
Louis Gagnon of the Montréal-based design firm Paprika said of the design itself, “the stamp features a mental health patient on the path towards recovery. The lines that flow through the stamp cross over one another to represent the plight of a troubled mind moving toward a sense of peace as they rise up the mountain.”
Click learn more about the Canada Post Foundation for Mental Health and make a donation.
Canada Post Corporation {2010}. Reproduced with Permission
October 15th, 2010
Design: Harvey Thomas Prosser
Client: Canada Post Corporation
Date: 1965
© Canada Post Corporation {1965}. Reproduced with Permission
October 14th, 2010
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