Be still, my arty heart. I’m clicking deliriously through a brilliant collection of postage stamps by type designers! Once again, someone has sent me a link to a site I cannot believe I had not known about. What a find, via my fine philatelic friend Cheryl Ganz, chief curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. [AK]
Check out the Kat Ran collection. But wait, there’s more, with links galore. Voilà Jean-Benoit Lévy’s A stamp, a favorite of mine. Zounds, look at Hermann Zapf’s intro page. Michael Russem has just made my morning. Do you think I’m going to send him a piece of mail?
But wait, how great, I can donate — to sponsor a page. Just five little dollars to support the stamp-design scholars! Rhyming aside, this site is superb and entertaining and ambitious. If you have a Pay Pal account, you can underwrite a page in under a minute by scrolling down to the Donate button. But guess what? Russem would prefer a good old-fashioned check! I am so perfectly perforated with delight that I’m going to sacrifice one of my last three graph-grid checks.
Alyson Kuhn will also send Cheryl Ganz at the NPM a thank-you note, right after she types her check to Kat Ran Press, oh yes. You can see a recent example of Ganz’s scholarship right here.
Drool…