Lees Mee braille stamps by René Put

Here’s another winner from the Dutch Design Awards last month: graphic designer René Put won the award for best graphic design for a series of braille stamps.

The stamps feature abstract printed text plus embossed braille text that can be read by the blind.

The Lees Mee (Read Them) series of stamps, issued by TNT Post earlier this year, celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille.

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Read-along Braille stamps

René Put

To mark the 200th birthday of Louis Braille, the inventor of a reading and writing system for blind and visually impaired people, TNT Post issued a series of special stamps. An exciting word game with both printed letters and Braille characters that can be read by sighted and blind people. The minimalist use of colour and the tactile Braille dots introduce the sighted to the world of the blind.

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