Philately Fridays: Mexico, 1972

Otl Aicher's branding for the 1972 Munich Olympics is one of my favorite identity systems of all time. Here are some of those fantastic colors and graphics applied to a postage stamp from Mexico.



Click here to see more of Aicher's design work for the '72 Olympics.

Philately Fridays: Ireland, 1977

Super nice illustration commemorating 50 years of Ireland's Electricity Supply Board.

Philately Fridays: Hungary, 1977

Philately Fridays: Indonesia, 1974

Three stamps from Indonesia, designed for the 17th (okaaaaaay) anniversary of Pertamina, the country's largest oil company.

Penthouse Mouths

Super erotic late '70s illustration for Penthouse by Robert Giusti. This has everything I wanna see in a food-related illustration.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1976

Three stamps from Canada celebrating arts, crafts, and music just in time for the 1976 Olympics. This is a perfect execution of the '70s still life photo shoot trend which surfaced in a lot of advertising and graphic arts.

Philately Fridays: Bulgaria, 1980, 1986

2 from Bulgaria, all about books. I'll forever be a sucker for a good fat-lined illustration. Can anyone translate these?

Philately Fridays: Cuba, 1979

3 stamps in honor of the 20th anniversary of the triumph of the Cuban Revolution!

Philately Fridays: Germany, 1970

Six stamps from Germany dedicated to heroes and do-gooders.


Life Rescue Society


Guard


Fire Brigade


Caregivers


Mountain Rescue Team


Technical Welfare Organization

3 Bears and a Kangaroo

Four animal logos created by German designers.


Philipp Seitz


Tobias Schwab


Gerhard Marx


Hermann Virl

Philately Fridays: Uruguay, 1975

Yet another fantastic stamp design from Uruguay. There's something kinda Klimt and something kinda creepy about this one.

Philately Fridays: Israel, 1981

Three stamp set commemorating the 11th Maccabiah Games in Israel.