4140) "Dancing" - Netherlands: "New Dutch Design Stamp Series: Fourth in the new Series of Stamps: Date/Year of Stamp Sheet issue: 22.09.2025:
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About New Dutch Design - "Dancing":
On 22 September 2025, PostNL released New Dutch
Design – dancing, the fourth stamp sheet in this new series. The New Dutch
Design series showcases the work of the next generation of Dutch graphic
designers.
The Stamp Sheet (SS)
The stamps were designed during the 2023-2024 academic
year by second-year Graphic Design students at ArtEZ in Zwolle, in
collaboration with Nicole Uniquole.
The stamps bear the denomination “1” for mail up to 20
grams within the Netherlands.
The New Dutch Design series, a successor to the Typically
Dutch series, is dedicated to the theme of “celebration,” expressed through
colour and form. After a brainstorm on the theme, the students decided to
explore it by focussing on different rituals.
The Stamp Sheet – Design:
The stamp sheet New Dutch Design –dancing features six special stamps in landscape format across two different designs.
Each stamp shows illustrations of people dancing together. The bodies are composed of flowing, solid colour shapes for arms, legs and torsos, with a separate solid circle for the head. Each design includes five dancing pairs – three holding hands and two dancing apart.
The dancers are grouped within a rectangular frame, with the largest pair dancing out of the frame at the only spot where the typography allows space.
Colours used for the dancers and background come from the palette for the entire New Dutch Design series.
The country name ‘Nederland’ and the year ‘2025’ appear alternately on the left and right of the stamps.
Denomination 1 is shown bottom left or right, and the sorting hook appears top left or right.
The sheet border features three additional dancers, who unlike those on the stamps, are dancing against and behind each other. This illustration extends into the perforation of the top-right stamp.
TYPOGRAPHY:
Two typefaces were used for the text. The first is Vier, designed by Maureen Ketting in 2024 specifically for the New Dutch Design series, in collaboration with fellow Graphic Design students at ArtEZ. The second is LTR Limited Grotesque, created in 2024 by Dutch type designer Erik van Blokland for LettError in The Hague.
DESIGN – SERIES:
Curator Nicole Uniquole is well-known for organising major art and design exhibitions at historical locations.
The design of the New Dutch Design stamp series is the result of an educational project within the Graphic Design programme at ArtEZ in Zwolle.
DESIGN – DANCING:
The stamp sheet New Dutch Design – dancing was designed by students Amie Schipper, Anna Lettinga, Daphne de Vries and Sam Gritter. Their fellow students Chantal Idzerda, Jolijn Bos and Maureen Ketting were responsible for the grid (typography etc.). Like all other stamp designs in the New Dutch Design series, the dancing stamps were created as part of an ArtEZ educational project in collaboration with curator Nicole Uniquole. The students developed the design during the 2023–2024 academic year, in their second year of Graphic Design studies at ArtEZ in Zwolle. All second-year students were involved in the series. At ArtEZ, they were guided by Marijke Meester and Anje Jager, respectively Head and Teacher of Graphic Design.ue, a sheet of 6 stamps in 2 designs,
focusses on the ritual of dancing.
According to various studies, around 9% of all adults
regularly dance at a dance school or sports club in their free time.
That figure rises to 50% when including all dancing at
parties and nightlife venues.
The younger we are, the more we dance: 22% of all
6–11-year-olds dance regularly. Among amateur dancers, women are in the
majority, with only a quarter being men. While ballroom dancing used to
dominate dance schools, today lessons are offered in a wide range of styles –
from acrobatic rock ’n’ roll, classical ballet, breakdance, dancehall,
fandango, flamenco and jazz ballet to line dance, quadrille, riverdance, salsa,
tap dance and tango.
There are around 400 dance schools in the Netherlands,
and the sector has seen notable growth.
Between 2019 and 2023, the number of dance schools and
instructors increased by an average of 35 percent. The largest national dance
organisation is the Dutch General Dance Sport Federation (NADB), affiliated
with NOC*NSF. Other key organisations include the Dutch Dance Sport
Organisation (NDO), the Eastern Netherlands Dance Teachers Foundation (SOND),
and the trade association Dance Entrepreneurs Netherlands.
The First Day Cover (FDC)
The Presentation Pack (PP)
The Stamp Booklet (SB)
Technical details:
Issue Date: 22.09.2025
Designers: Nicole Uniquole in collaboration with Amie
Schipper, Anna Lettinga, Chantal Idzerda, Daphne de Vries, Jolijn Bos, Maureen
Ketting and Sam Gritter (students Graphic Design aan ArtEZ, University of the
Arts, Zwolle)
Printer: Cartor Security Printers, Meaucé La Loupe, France
Process: Offset
Colours: Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (CMYK)
Size:
Stamp size: 40.00 mm x 30.00 mm,
Sheet Size: 122.00 x 170.00 mm
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