Royal Mail stamp collection pays homage to seminal British video games
Tomb Raider and Worms are among nine classic video games celebrated in the latest stamp collection by the British postal service Royal Mail. More
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Grayson Perry and Tracey Emin mark Royal Academy's 250th anniversary with stamp designs
Grayson Perry, Tracey Emin and Yinka Shonibare are among six artists commissioned by Royal Mail to create bespoke stamps to celebrate 250 years since the Royal Academy was founded. More
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Commemorative Karl Marx stamp celebrates economist's 200th birthday
The German postal service has released a postage stamp, designed by visual artist Thomas Mayfried, to commemorate the 200th birthday of Karl Marx. More
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Royal Mail's latest stamp collection celebrates the UK's "renaissance of contemporary architecture"
Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Centre, EMBT's Scottish Parliament and Haworth Tompkins's Stirling-Prize-winning Everyman Theatre are just some of the landmark buildings featured on a new set of UK stamps dedicated to contemporary architecture. More
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David Bowie's best album cover designs to appear on Royal Mail stamps
The UK postal service is commemorating David Bowie with a set of postage stamps featuring images of six of his most iconic album covers. More
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Zaha Hadid features on new Iraqi postage stamp
The Iraqi postal service has paid tribute to the late Zaha Hadid by featuring her on a new stamp – using an image created by combining two separate portraits. More
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Royal Mail's Animail stamp collection clings to the sides of envelopes
London design studio Osborne Ross has created a set of six animal-shaped Royal Mail stamps designed to appeal to children (+ slideshow). More
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Tord Boontje's festive stamps feature "small stories" of animals and people
Reindeer, peacocks and foxes adorn these Christmas stamps designed by Studio Tord Boontje for Dutch national delivery company PostNL. More
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Daan Roosegaarde's Enlightenment stamps depict the Netherlands as a "network of light"
Each of the postage stamps in this set by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde shows a different part of the Netherlands as it would be seen from space at night. More
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Studio Job designs a postage stamp for the new Dutch king
News: Belgian artists Studio Job have designed a postage stamp for Dutch king Willem-Alexander, who took office in April, that features a digitally modelled image of his face. More
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Dublin UNESCO City of Literature stamp by The Stone Twins
Dutch creative agency The Stone Twins did away with the usual imagery and photos when asked to design this postage stamp, using only words to tell a short story. More
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Olympic stamps by Hat Trick Design
Dezeen Wire: London studio Hat Trick Design have produced a set of Royal Mail stamps featuring iconic architecture from the capital to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics. More
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Stamps by Richard Hutten
Dutch designer Richard Hutten has designed a postage stamp that consists of a tiny eight-page book for Dutch postal company Royal TNT Post. More
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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. More
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British Design Classics stamps by Royal Mail
Britain's Royal Mail has issued a set of ten stamps celebrating 20th-century British design classics. More
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Dutch design stamps issued
A series of twelve postage stamps designed by Amsterdam creative agency staat have gone into circulation in the Netherlands. More
