The Heads of State "Star Trek" 50th Anniversary Stamps

I was already a fan of The Heads of State's work, but now they've given me one more reason to love them – these fab Star Trek USPS stamps. I'm gonna buy a lot of these. Like, a LOT a lot.

Star Trek Gets Retro Postage Stamps for Its 50th Birthday | WIRED

Pigeon Post.

I've been dying to post this, but I wanted to see if it actually worked first. It did! I sent one of these off to my friend Tina last week, and it got there today.

This is quite possibly the greatest way to send snail mail ever. Well done, 16 Sparrows. Well done.

Place your message in the supplied pouch, put the stamps on it, and pop it in the blue mail box on your corner! The bird will arrive at its destination to the delight and awe the recipient. Included in the kit:

• 1 Pigeon (plastic, not real folks!)

• 3 Pigeon Post message forms 3 mailing label pouches

• Instructions on how to mail

• Postage for one mailing
  

16 Sparrows | Pigeon Post

(Thanks to Olga Nunes for posting Pigeon Post on her twitter feed! Lovely girl.)

Royal Shakespeare Company commemorative stamps.

Gorgeous.


Creative Review - hat-trick design's commemorative RSC stamps

Oversized USPS Abstract Expressionists stamps.

I like. They go on sale today.


On March 11, 2010, in Buffalo, New York, the Postal Service™ issued a 44–cent, Abstract Expressionists commemorative stamp in ten designs, designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland

In celebration of the abstract expressionist artists of the 20th Century, Art Director Ethel Kessler and noted Art Historian Jonathan Fineberg (Gutgsell Professor Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) selected ten paintings to feature on this colorful pane of self–adhesive stamps. Kessler used elements from Barnett Newman’s Achilles (1952) to frame the stamps. The arrangement of the stamps suggests paintings hanging on a gallery wall. For design purposes, the sizes of the stamp are not in relative proportion to the paintings. The pane also features selvage text and a quotation by Robert Motherwell. Each stamp includes the artist’s name and verso text that identifies the painting and briefly tells something about the artist.

USPS: Abstract Expressionists

Post Card Aeroplane.

Excellent for kids and grown-ups who are just big kids, it's made from balsa wood and the pieces easily pop out to form your very own loop-de-loop, flying glider. It's much more fun than ordinary mail and once you write a little message on it, it becomes post with a bit more love and personality. Don't forget to send it by ‘air mail' though, get it? Air? Because it's a plane and it flies through the air!

SUCK UK - Post Card Aeroplane

p.s. I just wish it didn't have their logo on it. I love their products, but hate their name.

(via one of my new faves, holycool.net)