Designing the Mentoring Stamp: An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, composition, color, light, and the typeface Penumbra

Arts & Photography

Hidy, Lance

Graphic Design

Kat Ran Press

Eric Gill had exacting and pointed opinions about postage stamps, their purpose, and their design. Unfortunately, his theories didn't always hold up when put into practice, and he had a less than successful career as a designer of stamps. Accompanied by nine of Gill's previously unpublished preparatory drawings and sketches for stamps, Notes on Postage Stamps is a short, previously unpublished essay by Gill in which he succinctly lays out his philatelic ideas-some of which were a little too idealistic and some of which were spot-on. All of them are interesting and thought-provoking. Notes on Postage Stamps contains fifty-six full-color illustrations, most of which will be completely unfamiliar to historians and enthusiasts of Gill's work. An afterword by Michael Russem chronicles Gill's seven attempts at stamp design-only two of which resulted in published stamps.

Notes on Postage Stamps (Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics)

Eric Gill

<p>Poetry. Art. In the afterword to this collection, William Corbett writes that Michael Gizzi (1949-2010) "was one of those generous souls who served poets and poetry," and these sixteen poems celebrate both his friend and friendship. Corbett recalls the people, places, and events that make up a well-lived life, and the four peculiar and lovely drawings by Natalia Afentoulidou are the perfect companion to these poems, ensuring the feeling of a celebration—never a dirge.</p>

Elegies for Michael Gizzi

Literature & Fiction

Corbett, William

Poetry

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