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To celebrate the centenary of the Royal Air Force Association (RAFA) of Jersey, Harry Milburn collaborated with the fabulous team at Jersey Post to create their latest set of stamps.
Taking inspiration from original RAF recruitment posters of WW2, Harry’s illustrations bring a sense of modern nostalgia to the stamps’ artwork.
Water colourist Hannah George was thrilled to be commissioned to illustrate Jersey Post’s latest stamp issue, creating a series of six beautiful botanical illustrations and the issue’s Presentation Pack cover.
Artist Partners are delighted and privileged to announce the first Royal Mail stamps showing the silhouette of His Majesty King Charles III for and celebrating Christmas 2023. the designs have been exclusively illustrated by Tom Duxbury. These five beautiful images were based on the theme of the nativity and the traditional Christmas carols. The five designs feature the carols: O Holy Night; O Little Town of Bethlehem; Silent Night; Away in a Manger; and We Three Kings.
Andrew Davidson has created the four stamps for the Coronation of HM King Charles III.
The new HM King Charles III silhouette; a collaboration between illustrator Andrew Davidson, Head of Design and Editorial at Royal Mail, Marcus James, and Ian Chilvers, from design agency, Atelier Works is out now.
The project began with Andrew working on a likeness that would work at stamp size.
The second major stage of development was the digitising and fine-tuning of the detail in the silhouette. This was conducted by both Royal Mail and Atelier Works with visual adjustments that were tested at actual size to ensure the silhouette would work at the diminutive dimensions required.
The final image was adjusted to ensure a likeness to the new Definitive ’everyday’ stamp.
To mark such an incredible project, we spoke to Andrew to gather his thoughts on the commission.
How does it feel to capture such an important moment in British Monarchy History?
I feel a great sense of honour to have been asked to work on such an important job.
It’s a hard act to follow one of my heroes, David Gentleman, whose design of the Queen’s silhouette has been in use since 1968.
What were your initial feelings when the commission came in?
When Marcus James of Royal Mail and Ian Chilvers of Atelier Design asked me to work on this project, I was very excited, but knew it was a great challenge.
You’ve created and worked on many iconic campaigns in your career, how does this compare with what you would consider to be other major projects?
Over the many years I have been working as a designer/illustrator, I have always taken the view that each job no matter how large or important, should be treated with the same amount of consideration and respect as smaller less prestigious commissions. It keeps me grounded.
We are delighted that Andrew Davidson has received a very special commission from The Royal Mail to design six seasonal Christmas stamps.
Digital Progression’s lead artist Malcolm Tween, was thrilled to be asked to illustrate a special set of stamps for the Royal Mail, to mark the upcoming release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Some jobs are on an illustrator's bucket list from the minute they graduate art school. For many, creating stamps for the Royal Mail is pretty high up that list, and it's one that Helen Musselwhite was delighted to tick off this year.
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2016 marks the centenary of Agatha Christie writing her first detective story – The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The Royal Mail is marking the occasion with a set of six stamps illustrated by Neil Webb and designed by Jim Sutherland. The stamps represent some of her best-known novels – Murder on the Orient Express, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, The Body in the Library, And Then There Were None, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and A Murder is Announced.
Late last year had the chance to illustrate a page of stamps for Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Emporium. For those who don’t know Discworld is a series of 40 books written by Pratchett, based on the fictional Discworld – a flat planet sitting on the backs of four elephants which ride through space on the back of a giant tortoise (of course)…
The stamps feature Sam Vimes – the chief of police of Ankh-Morpock, the biggest city on the Discworld. Although Vimes is a much-loved character from the series he had never before been featured on his own stamp. Discworld stamps are fast becoming collector’s items and have been picked up by The British Museum in the past, so we hope the Sam Vimes stamp will prove as popular as the rest.
Bill was honoured to be included in this strange world and the resulting stamp looks great. The Phosphor team were saddened to hear the news of Terry Pratchett’s death last month and wish to send their condolences to Terry’s family and all at the Discworld Emporium.
The stamp will be available to buy in two batches on April 11th from the Discworld Emporium Website -
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