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The Royal Mail has released a set of David Bowie themed stamps, which have been enlarged, attached to weather balloons and sent into space as part of a launch stunt.
The set of 10 stamps have been designed in-house by Royal Mail and use a template created by Studio Dempsey for the Classic Album Art stamps series, issued in 2010, which featured the Bowie album Ziggy Stardust. The same template was also used for the Pink Floyd stamps in 2016.
Die cut stamps with visible vinyl
Each of the new Bowie stamps has been die cut and features the arc of a vinyl record poking out of the sleeve.
Six of the stamps feature album covers, which together show Bowie’s transformation and include: Hunky Dory; Aladdin Sane; “Heroes”; Let’s Dance; Earthling and ★.
The other four stamps show Bowie performing live on tours including The Ziggy Stardust Tour, 1972; The Stage Tour, 1978; The Serious Moonlight Tour, 1983; and A Reality Tour, 2004.
You can see all the stamps, and more at Design Week 30.
Awesome!!!!
(I found out the other day that Stevie Ray Vaughn did the guitar work on “putting out fire”, which I did not know. I was listening to it and thinking “wow, this is perfect!” so I googled it and was gobsmacked and happy.)
Those are incredibly cool stamps, I’d love to have all of them! They sure as hell put U.S. efforts to shame.
They’re on ebay for about $15 a set.