An Art Director for the U.S. Postal Services Explains How Postage Stamps Are Designed
Filmmaker David Friedman of AARP Studios and Ironic Sans created an interesting mini-documentary in which designer Antonio Alcali, an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, shared the different processes that goes into designing a postage stamp, how he got into such a career and what he was doing beforehand.
Related Laughing Squid PostsIt's almost like a little haiku sometimes. You have to figure out on that tiny, tiny canvas, what are the essential elements to tell the story that needed to be communicated, to have a message to communicate, to have room for my typography. "I didn't become a stamp designer until, it was after 50. When I'd been working with multipage books and museum exhibitions, all of a sudden I was having to design something that was, you know, one inch square. It was almost like learning a new job all over again, a new sort of skill set, to work on the Postal Service stamps.