Philately Fridays: Israel, 1972

Four brightly colored Israeli stamps promoting education.

Philately Fridays: Israel, 1972

Two souvenir stamp sheets commemorating gates of Jerusalem.

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Philately Fridays: Suriname, 1972

Five children's stamps from Suriname!

Philately Fridays: The Netherlands, 1972

Two stamps from The Netherlands in honor of the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich.

Philately Fridays: Czechoslovakia, 1972

Four stamps from Czechoslovakia for the 1972 Winter Olympic Games in Sapporo.

Philately Fridays: Cyprus, 1972

Two stamps from the island of Cyprus. I love the combination of the Greek lettering with Otl Aicher's timeless Olympic marks.

Philately Fridays: Germany, 1972

Two gorgeous stamps from the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. I really love the simplicity of the illustrations here. So much achieved with such a basic form vocabulary.

Related: Otl Aicher's pictogram system for the 1972 Olympic Games

Philately Fridays: Two from Switzerland

Here's a duo of stamps from Switzerland, both celebrating advancements in communications technology while exemplifying classic Swiss design sensibilities.

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1976 (Is Big Brother watching?)

Philately Fridays: United States, 1972

It's hard to go wrong with a stamp design when you're starting with Otl Aicher's outstanding and timeless icons for the 1972 Olympic Games.

Philately Fridays: Poland, 1972

Five post-psychedelic stamps from Poland for the 1972 Olympics.

See also: Philately Fridays: Samoa, 1976

Philately Fridays: Cuba, 1972

Cuba gets ready for the 1972 Olympic games in MUNICH!

Philately Fridays: Germany, 1972

Nice one from Germany with the shoutout to "Invincible Vietnam." Excellent deliberate use of halftone dots.

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.