3411) "Shaping the Future Together," Netherlands: PostNL (Netherlands Post) held in Noordwijk from 30.09.2024 to 06.10.2024: PostNL has issued a Stamp Sheet: Date of Stamp Sheet issued: 30.09.2024:
On 30 September 2024, PostNL has published a stamp sheet titled - "Shaping the Future Together".
The purpose for this release is the "Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE)" held in Noordwijk which starts on 30 September.
The Background:
More than 100 astronauts came to the Netherlands for this Congress hosted by the astronaut André Kuipers.
The "Shaping the Future Together" stamps each have a value of 1 for mail weighing up to 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands.
The new stamps were created by the graphic designer Lilian Vos from the Vividblue design agency in Amsterdam.
From 30 September to 6 October 2024, a special space congress will take place in Noordwijk and Amsterdam: The 35th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE).
The ASE wants to inspire as many people as possible, share knowledge, promote international cooperation and look to the future together with younger generations.
The members of the ASE are astronauts who have completed at least one orbit of the Earth.
The host of the 35th Congress is the Dutch astronaut André Kuipers.
The theme of the Congress is "Generation Space – shaping the future together".
The Stamp Sheet:
The "Shaping the Future" release has 6 stamps in 2 different designs.
The large stamp at the bottom of the stamp sheet is a semicircle shape.
This large stamp features a colour illustration of the Earth by day, as seen from space.
A large curved shape overhead contains 5 identical smaller stamps which are trapezoid in shape and together form the atmosphere.
The 5 stamps each feature a colour illustration that represents the astronaut’s view of the Earth from space at night. We see the colours of a rising sun, green auroras, the starry sky and the moon. On the dark earth, the light of the rising sun reflects off clouds and water.
The stars in the upper part of the 5 smaller stamps extend into the outer space depicted on the rest of the sheet edge above.
On the top left of the sheet edge is a picture of the International Space Station high above the Earth.
On the top right of the sheet edge, the moon on the smaller stamps is replicated in larger form.
In the observation module of the ISS, the face of the Dutch astronaut André Kuipers is subtly visible behind one of the windows, photographed during Expedition 30.
During this expedition in 2011-2012, the crew also saw Comet Lovejoy, an illustration of which is depicted on the right below the title of the stamp sheet.
The background of the stamp sheet is deep black.
The text uses the Tektur font by the type designer Adam Jagosz from Bielsko-Biała (Poland) and Arboria by the type designer José Manuel Urós from Barcelona (Spain). The value indication of 1 is in the Black OPS One font by the type designers James Grieshaber from Rochester (New York) and Eben Sorkin from Boston (Massachusetts).
With the new stamps "Shaping the Future Together", PostNL is putting the 35th Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE) in the spotlight which took place in Noordwijk and Amsterdam from 30 September to 6 October 2024.
The design of "Shaping the Future Together" was created by the graphic designer Lilian Vos, from the Vividblue design agency in Amsterdam.
Lilian Vos was also responsible for designing the stamp sheet Journey to the Moon in 2023.
The Stamp Sheet - "Shaping the Future Together" reflects the overview perspective, i.e. what astronauts see when they look at the Earth from space.
This perspective also leads to insight into how fragile our world is and how important it is that humanity cherishes, protects and preserves the Earth for future generations.
View from space:
For her design concept, Lilian Vos chose the perspective from which astronauts look at the Earth.
Optimistic and inspiring:
Vos’ first hand sketches for the new space stamps already included the contours of the atmosphere and the Earth, including where they actually ended up on the stamp sheet.
An imagined reality:
The images of the atmosphere and the Earth are based on photos taken from space are illustrations, an imagined reality.
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