[press release]
Mushrooms play leading role on autumn sheetlet of ‘Experience Nature’ stamp series
The Hague, 18 September 2018 – This year, PostNL is issuing the ‘Experience Nature’ stamp series. There is a ten-stamp sheetlet for each season. Today marks the publication of the fourth and final stamp series of the year. This autumn edition of the stamp series is dedicated to mushrooms.
Design
The autumn stamps feature ten types of mushrooms that we may encounter in our country. The photographs used are ‘portraits’ of these mushrooms in their natural environment. Most images run almost imperceptibly through onto the adjacent stamp. This creates natural contact between the mushrooms, as if they appear next to each other in the same wood, which would not be the case in reality.
The beauty of nature
Through the Experience Nature stamp sheetlet, PostNL pays homage to the diversity of nature in our country. Stephan van den Eijnden, PostNL’s Commercial Director for Mail: “Mushrooms are the visible parts of fungi. The fungi are often as invisible as mushrooms are visible and abundant in shape and colour. The colours and shapes come to life on this stamp sheetlet.”
Thousands of photos
For the ‘Experience Nature’ series, graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda selected around one thousand photographs for each of the four stamp sheetlets. He narrowed these down to a shortlist consisting of around a hundred images, from which he chose the ten photographs that made it onto each stamp sheetlet. He was guided by both the beauty of the photograph and the special characteristics of the depicted plants, animals and mushrooms. The photographs are the work of amateur photographers who send their best images to the PIXFACTORY websites.
Availability
The ‘Experience Nature – Mushrooms’ stamp sheetlet consists of ten different stamps marked with ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps are available from 17 September at all post offices and online at postnl.nl/bijzondere-postzegels. The stamps can also be ordered by phone from the Collect Club customer service on telephone number +31 (0)88 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.
