Friday, September 26, 2008

Philately Fridays: Cuba 1983


This stamp was issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Cuba's Rebel Radio, a station started by Che Guevara (obviously pictured on the stamp) to provide music and news during the Cuban Revolution. Beautiful, simple, and brightly-colored design, very characteristic of many designs coming out of Cuba during this era.

5 comments:

Biff said...

Nice work.

You might like these...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidmcfarline/sets/72157600201139707/

Mike Davis said...

Fresh! That's a great collection. We have some crossover between ours and I been done had a few of those locked and loaded and ready to post here. Thanks for passing along the link!

Leon said...

Hey,
I LOVE this blog. I have always had a secret penchant for this stuff, and it blows my mind that the 60s-80s style of advertisement and overall product appearance has given way to Comic Sans-happy shittiness.

I was at a tag sale earlier this week and found something you might like. If you want to post it, I'll be happy to scan it for you!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/totaldude/2897922812/

Also: Perhaps you'd dig the logo of the radio station I DJ for, we have not changed it since 1978.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/totaldude/2897922990/

Cheers
Leon

Mike Davis said...

Whoa that book looks fresh! Please email me at mike@twelvecarpileup.com to discuss. Thanks Leon!

Leon said...

Hi Mike
I E-mailed you earlier. My E-mail address ends up in the Spam folder often, just to let you know...
tex@chilidogsrule.com
Thanks
Leon