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On 28 September 2026, PostNL will issue the New Dutch Design "Echo of the Celebration" Stamps, the fourth and final stamp sheet of this year in the New Dutch Design series.
The series showcases the work of the future generation of Dutch graphic designers.
The design of these stamp sheets was created during the 2024-2025 academic year by second-year Graphic Design students at ArtEZ in Zwolle, in collaboration with Nicole Uniquole.
The stamps bear denomination 1 for mail up to and including 20 grams destined for addresses within the Netherlands.
This year, the New Dutch Design series is once again dedicated to the theme of ‘celebration’, expressed through colour and form.
Each year, every cohort of second year students is given the freedom to interpret this theme in its own way.
For the 2025 stamps, the students explored the theme through various ‘rituals’.
For the 2026 stamps, the new cohort of students chose the prompt ‘go all out’ following a brainstorming session.
Through four different stamp designs, they invite us, as they themselves describe it, to pause, let go, remember and, above all, celebrate existence.
The fourth issue, to be released on 28 September, is a sheet featuring 6 special stamps in 2 different designs and is titled - "Echo of the Celebration".
Earlier this year, the stamp sheet "Recurring Memories" was issued on 16 February, followed by "Taste the Atmosphere" on 8 May and "Glow of the Moment" on 10 August.
The stamps bear denomination 1 for mail up to and including 20 grams destined for addresses within the Netherlands. The price of a sheet of 6 stamps is €8.40.
DESIGN:
The New Dutch Design "Echo of the Celebration stamp sheet" is dominated by a large flowing graphic illustration featuring manipulated dashes and dots.
The shapes within the pattern continue across the perforations from one stamp to the next. The pattern also extends into the sheet margin.
The illustration depicts confetti left behind after a celebration. The colours have been selected from this year’s fixed palette for the New Dutch Design series.
DESIGN PROCESS
The designs for the four issues in the 2026 New Dutch Design stamp series were created during the 2024-2025 academic year by second-year Graphic Design students at ArtEZ in Zwolle.
All 21 students in this cohort contributed extensively to the concepts and designs for the series.
On behalf of PostNL, curator Nicole Uniquole guided the students through the design process, including inspiration sessions at the start and a visit with the students to the National Archives.
The design process of virtually every Dutch stamp has been documented there.
The educational project was based on the principle that the stamp sheets should form a coherent series while giving students every opportunity to develop their creativity.
TYPOGRAPHY:
The typography uses two typefaces. The first is Vier, a typeface designed in 2025 by ArtEZ student Maureen Ketting for the first stamp issue in the New Dutch Design series. The second is Prophet, a sans-serif typeface from 2016 by Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb and Erkin Karamemet of Dinamo Typefaces in Berlin.
DESIGNERS:
The New Dutch Design series brings the 2026 theme ‘celebration’ and the subtheme ‘go all out’ to life through colourful and multifaceted forms.
The stamp sheets are characterised by exuberant patterns and expressive visual language inspired by moments of nostalgia, togetherness, light and longing.
This year’s final issue is the New Dutch Design – "Echo of the Celebration" stamp sheet, through which the designers draw attention to the moment after the partygoers have left, just before the clean-up begins.
Technical details
Issue Date:21.09.2026
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