[press release] [official PostNL translation]
Stamp + App = Honor For Dutch DJ
The Hague, 21 October 2020. One of the best DJs in the world now has his own stamp. Dutch DJ/producer Martin Garrix’s portrait photo features on the stamp. If you buy the stamps and download a special app, you will receive a virtual performance at home by the famous DJ.
Martijn Garritsen (Amstelveen, 1996) is professionally known as Martin Garrix. In 2013, he made his international debut with Animals. This was followed by many more successes with hits such as In The Name Of Love, Scared To Be Lonely and Summer Days. In 2016, 2017 and 2018, Martin Garrix was voted the world’s best DJ in the DJ Mag Top 100. In 2016, he founded his own record label: STMPD RCRDS.
Martin Garrix: ‘From an early age, I’ve been surrounded by stamps through my dad’s business. That’s why, when we founded my label, we chose a name with a reference to stamps: STMPD RCRDS. It’s an honour to feature on a stamp, and I’m really happy with the final result.’
Portrait in silhouette form
The stamps feature a silhouette portrait of Martin Garrix. His torso and head are dark blue and his arms light up. The silhouette itself features the DJ’s logo with the orangey red plus sign and x projected. The sheet edge has dark blue strips of torn paper at the top and bottom, with orangey red effects at the frayed edges.
Bold design
The Martin Garrix stamp was designed by Boris Lammertse, graphic designer at STMPD RCRDS. Lammertse has produced a bold stamp with solid dark areas and strong colours, interspersed with subtle lines in the blueprint drawing. Martin Garrix’ logo was placed in a prominent position on the stamp. Lammertse: ‘The plus sign and the x are very simple shapes, which means you can do a lot with them. We often use white, but orangey red fits in a lot better here.’
Virtual performance
Specially for this issue, there is a free app that can be downloaded through Google Play and the Apple Store. By scanning the stamps with the app, an AR application will launch a virtual performance by Martin Garrix. ‘It’s a fantastic app,’ says Stephan van den Eijnden, PostNL’s commercial director for Mail. ‘First you get a video call from Martin Garrix and then it tells you how to get this famous DJ to perform in your home. The app is free – you just need to buy the stamps and scan them.’ The app was developed in collaboration with PostNL, Joh. Enschéde, Wij Doen Dingen and Martin Garrix B.V.
Availability
The ‘Martin Garrix’ stamp sheet features five identical stamps with ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items weighing up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps are available as of 21 October 2020 from Bruna shops and online at www.postnl.nl/bijzondere-postzegels. The stamps can also be ordered by phone from the Collect Club customer service on +31 (0)88 – 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.
The set comprises 12 stamps that depict the captains from six principle TV series, plus additional crew members: Captain James T Kirk; Spock; Captain Jean-Luc Picard; Commander Deanna Troi; Captain Benjamin Sisko; Doctor Julian Bashir; Captain Kathryn Janeway; Captain Jonathan Archer; Lieutenant Malcolm Reed; Captain Gabriel Lorca; Lieutenant Ash Tyler; and Commander Michael Burnham. Six of these characters are played by British actors.
Tolian Soran; Klingon Chancellor Gorkon; Carol Marcus; and Krall.
The 12 main character stamps were illustrated by London-based, illustrator, Freya Betts. Each stamp portrays the characters alongside reflective details in the background of their respective shows, including the iconic starships.
Signing a contract with Desilu, a production company owned by comedy star Lucille Ball, Roddenberry brought in skilled writers and other collaborators to help him develop Star Trek into a weekly series that would resonate with American TV audiences. After several false starts, the show was first broadcast on the NBC network in September 1966. It was first broadcast in the UK in 1969, with repeats over the next decade building its popularity and cementing its place in popular culture.
characters, a diverse group led by the noble Captain James T Kirk and committed to the peaceful principles of the United Federation of Planets.
inspired generations of loyal fans with extraordinary adventures and an optimistic vision of humanity’s future. We celebrate the Star Trek Universe with stylish new stamps of its iconic characters.”
TORONTO – Canada Post issued on October 15th a new commemorative stamp to mark Diwali – a joyous festival celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains and other communities around the world. In 2020, Diwali falls on November 14, with festivities continuing for five days.
Stamps and collectibles can be found 
The stamps explore insects — including bees and butterflies — and other often overlooked important pollinators, including moths, beetles, hoverflies and wasps.
There are thought to be more than five million species of these ‘brilliant bugs’ worldwide.
decades, one third of bee and hoverfly species have declined.
Royal Mail worked with ecologist and entomologist Professor Helen Roy MBE, from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, on the stamp set.
‘Brilliant Bugs’.
Depicted on thistle. This migratory butterfly travels vast distances from the Middle East and Central Asia before arriving in the UK during the summer months.
Balfour Mount, M. Vera Peters, James Till and Ernest McCulloch. Their contributions to the fields of pediatric pathology, HIV/AIDS, palliative care, oncology and stem cell science changed the practice of medicine in Canada and around the world.
a manageable condition with a near-normal life expectancy and has markedly reduced HIV transmission. Dr. Mount, O.C., O.Q. (b. 1939), considered the father of palliative care in North America, founded the world’s first comprehensive palliative care service based in a teaching hospital. Dr. Peters, O.C.(1911-93) revolutionized treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma and breast cancer in an era when the work of female physician scientists was not often acknowledged. Dr. Till, O.C., O. Ont. (b. 1931) and Dr. 
McCulloch, O.C., O. Ont. (1926-2011) transformed the world’s understanding of tissue renewal by establishing the foundations of stem cell science.
pandemic.
TORONTO, le 14 sept. 2020 /CNW/ – Aujourd’hui, Postes Canada a émis un jeu de cinq timbres commémoratifs célébrant six pionniers de la médecine : la Dre M. Vera Peters, les Drs Bruce Chown, Julio Montaner, Balfour Mount et Ernest McCulloch, et le chercheur James Till. Leurs contributions dans les domaines de l’oncologie, de la médecine pédiatrique, de la recherche sur le VIH/sida, des soins palliatifs et de l’étude des cellules souches ont transformé la pratique de la médecine au Canada et partout dans le monde.
Le Dr Chown, O.C., M.C. (1893-1986), a été l’un des premiers dans le monde à éliminer la maladie rhésus (Rh) qui entraînait autrefois la mort de nombreux nouveau-nés. Grâce au Dr Montaner, O.C., O.B.C. (né en 1956), le VIH/SIDA est devenu une maladie chronique gérable, son taux a grandement diminué et les personnes qui en sont atteintes ont maintenant une longévité comparable au reste de la population. Considéré comme le pionnier des soins palliatifs en Amérique du Nord, le Dr Mount, O.C., O.Q. (né en 1939), a 
fondé le premier service de soins palliatifs complet au monde dans un hôpital d’enseignement. La Dre Peters, O.C. (1911-1993), a révolutionné le traitement du lymphome de Hodgkin et du cancer du sein à une époque où les femmes chercheures en médecine n’étaient guère reconnues. James Till, O.C., O. Ont. (né en 1931), et le Dr Ernest McCulloch, O.C., O. Ont. (1926-2011), ont transformé la notion de renouvellement des 
tissus en prouvant l’existence des cellules souches.
contributions remarquables.
kaleidoscopic patterns. In the cheerful and playful stamp sheetlet full of optical illusions, graphic designer Hansje van Halem, winner of the Dutch Design Award for Communication in 2018, has applied all the colors from the color box. [A larger picture of the full sheet is shown at the end of this page.]
Van Halem started her design by drawing simple lines in a random pattern. “Without a goal, just try it out. For me, drawing equals searching, discovering. You have to look closely at what you are doing to understand what you have done. In the process I try to discover what I want to achieve. For example, I make a lot of endpapers for books and they are of course decorative. There too I look for harmony by creating optical illusions, just as happened with these stamps. ”
The Hague, September 14, 2020. On the latest stamp sheetlet from the “Experience nature” series, forest and heather birds play the leading role. The ten depicted birds on the stamps are the raven, coal tit, keep, great spotted woodpecker, red-collared redstart, greylag flycatcher, gray shrike, black grouse, wryneck and rump head. [Larger illustration of full sheet at end]
sheetlet “Experience nature” costs € 9.10. The price for the full series 2020 is € 36.40, including storage folder.
nature. Janse: “It has become a beautiful autumnal sheet with a mossy green in the background, which fits exactly with this season. In the center of the sheet, red accents draw the attention: the background by the gray shrike, the eyebrows of the black grouse, the berries at the keep and the “pants” of the great spotted woodpecker.”
Heather birds in particular have a difficult time in our country due to the deterioration in the quality of heathland areas and the sharp decrease in the number of insects. Many bird species have therefore entered the danger zone. The black grouse, for example, is on the verge of disappearing. The wheatear can hardly be found on heaths anymore, but it can still be found in dune areas. The gray shrike only occurs as a winter guest in our country.
Mare’s Nest (1952), Rupert And The Lost Cuckoo (1963) and Rupert’s Christmas Tree (1947)
Rupert Bear. The stamps feature the artwork of Alfred Bestall, who wrote and illustrated more than 270 Rupert stories after he took on the role in 1935.
at the Express, and his wife, Mary, was the illustrator.
Her replacement was Alfred Bestall, an established artist with Punch and other magazines, who also illustrated children’s books. In total, he wrote and illustrated 224 Rupert stories for the newspaper and provided 47 other stories, mostly for the Rupert Annuals. In 1985 he was awarded the MBE for his work. He died the following year. It is his illustrations which are reproduced on the stamps which feature Rupert in adventures with some of friends including Algy Pup, Bill Badger and Pompey the baby elephant.
whereby every picture had a rhyming couplet underneath, plus a few lines of story text to accompany them. Bestall’s couplets often ended with the promise of a mystery, so that the next day’s paper was eagerly awaited by children, curious to see how the story would unfold. Bestall also introduced new characters to add variety, including Lily Duckling, Gregory Guineapig, the Old Professor, Bingo and the Imps of Spring and Autumn. Most Rupert stories commence with the bear leaving home and end with him returning after an adventure in time for tea to tell his mother of his experiences.
While books of reprinted Rupert stories appeared in the 1920s, it was decided that an annual publication would appear every Christmas. It was titled, Monster Rupert. The first volume was issued in 1931 and continued up to 1934, ceasing after Mary Tourtel retired.
World War, the government sanctioned sufficient paper for the annuals to be printed, to help boost the morale of the public.
generations of children to a wonderful make-believe world of magic and adventure.”
Canada Post will issue a stamp or stamps to honor Hamilton on October 28th. (press release below)
War Material, c. 1920
OTTAWA – Canada Post on October 28th released a new stamp issue featuring Mary Riter Hamilton’s Trenches on the Somme (1919) in honour of the painter, who was unofficially Canada’s first woman battlefield artist.
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With 6 new stamps, PostNL pays tribute to the two-wheeler, in particular to its parts.
37,000 kilometers of cycle paths. Local drivers from all over the world come to look at our cycling infrastructure, especially now that the bicycle is increasingly seen as a fast and healthy alternative to cars and public transport.
stamp. In this way, a fragment of a bicycle ends up on a bicycle stamp. “The entire stamp sheet also has the appearance of a stamp thanks to the perforation all around,” says Plug.
