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PostNL December stamps 2019: colourful parade of people and animals

The Hague, 4 November 2019 – This year’s PostNL December stamps were illustrated by Lieke van der Vorst. The internationally sought-after illustrator from Eindhoven was inspired by her personal memories of the month of December.

All about family
The stamp sheet of twenty December stamps contains a drawing of a colourful parade of ten characters, both human and animal, in a winter landscape. The stamps exude a warm atmosphere due to the contrasting colours with a sky of snowflakes and stars in the background. “At my parents’ home, the Christmas holidays are all about family,” says Lieke van der Vorst. “They’re about being together, about sharing. On Christmas Day, we stay at home. On Boxing Day, we visit family and friends and everyone brings a dish with them.”

Merging effect
The drawings on the stamps merge into each another. This has created a kind of story on the stamp sheet. “It has turned into a parade going from left to right,” says Van der Vorst. “A parade on a snowy road that ends with the polar bear at the mailbox who is sending cards to those who can’t be at the party. That completes the story.”

Special December rates
PostNL issues new December stamps each year. With the stamps, consumers and businesses can send Christmas and New Year cards weighing up to 50g at a cheaper rate. The special December price of €0.82 per stamp applies from 4 November 2019 until 3 January 2020. This year, a sheet of 20 December stamps costs €16.40. Upon purchase of two sheets of December stamps, the buyer receives a special bag made from 100% recycled PET plastic.

Love for the world around her
Illustrator Lieke van der Vorst (1989) grew up in Kaatsheuvel, just north of Tilburg. Her upbringing was dominated by nature, and her love for the animal world and her immediate surroundings is reflected in her work. Her work is in great international demand, and there is a huge amount of interest in Australia and South Korea. Van der Vorst previously worked on the 2017 December stamps as one of the ten young talented individuals linked to ten famous Dutch people.

Precise style of working
All of the illustrations for the December stamps were drawn by Van der Vorst separately by hand on A4 paper, including the background and typography. Later she combined them on the computer with the space at the top of the sheet. In her work, she almost exclusively uses watercolour pencils and ballpoint pen to create harder lines. “Over the years, I have tried out all of the techniques,” says Van der Vorst. “But pencil and ballpoint suit me best. The advantage is that it allows you to be very precise in your work. You can control the intensity of each line by applying varying amounts of pressure.”

Availability
The December stamps are available from 4 November from 7,200 sales points in the Netherlands (including Jumbo, Albert Heijn, Bruna, Primera, Kruidvat and The Read Shop), through our website and from the Collect Club customer service on telephone number +31 (0)88 – 868 99 00. December stamps can also be used outside of the Christmas period, as long as they are accompanied by an extra stamp for the price that is valid at the time of sending.

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Tribute to the autumn forest

The Hague, September 13, 2019. Autumn is the season to go into the forest. The leaves change color, the trees look different every day. With the stamp sheetlet “Experience nature – trees and leaves”, which was released today, PostNL brings an ode to the forest in the autumn.

Totally Dutch
On the latest stamp sheet, the depicted trees and leaves are closely linked, as if they were close to each other. All the trees shown can indeed be found in Dutch nature. All used photos are also made in the Netherlands

The first experience
For graphic designer Frank Janse from Gouda, who designed the stamps, the forest plays an important role in our experience of nature. “For children, a forest is often the first experience with nature. There’s a lot going on. You see, smell and hear everything. At the same time you realize that everything happens that you do not immediately see, smell or hear. That makes it even more exciting. ”

Decay process
Experience the nature – trees and leaves at the center of the design of the sensory and associative nature experience. When selecting the photographic material, Janse searched for autumn colors that are as close as possible to each other. “I stayed away from the romantic, multi-colored autumn hues, but chose greenish and orange-colored brown. They are the first steps in the rotting process that nature simply undergoes in the autumn. ”

Biodiversity
With the new stamps, PostNL calls attention to the diversity of nature in our country. “It is much larger than we sometimes think at first sight,” says Stephan van den Eijnden, MailNL’s commercial director, Mail. “Trees play a major role in this. Especially in an urbanized country like the Netherlands. That is why it is so important to safeguard the biodiversity of our forests.”

Image bank for nature photography
After the mammals (2 January), stinsenplants (25 February) and butterflies (11 June), this fourth stamp sheet about trees and leaves is the last of this year from the series Experience nature. All photos on the stamps are from Buiten-Beeld, the Dutch image bank for nature photography. A single stamp sheet in the single sale costs nature experience € 8.70. The price for the entire series is € 34.80, including storage folder.

Availability
The stamp sheet Experience nature – trees and leaves has 10 different stamps with the value indication Netherlands 1, intended for mail up to and including 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands. The stamps are available now at all points of sale of PostNL, the post office in the Bruna stores and via www.postnl.nl/bij exception- postzegels. The stamps can also be ordered by telephone from Collect Club customer service on telephone number 088 – 868 99 00. The period of validity is indefinite.

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Special stamps with informal portraits of the royal family

The Hague, 16 September 2019. The latest stamps from PostNL contain 5 penetrating portraits of King Willem-Alexander, Queen Máxima and the princesses Amalia, Alexia and Ariane. The photos were taken by photographer Erwin Olaf, who is celebrating his 40th anniversary this year.

Royal Christmas card
In the background of the stamp sheet is a group photo of the king, queen and their 3 daughters. This photo, also by Olaf, decorated the royal Christmas card of 2018. The issue of the new stamps with the 5 royal portraits is an initiative of PostNL.

Self-Guided
In 2019 there were various anniversary exhibitions with the work of Olaf, including in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and the Fotomuseum Den Haag. King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima also visited these exhibitions, where they were shown around in person by Olaf. Olaf: “The overview exhibitions showed how I changed from an angry young man to a visual artist who looks at the world more thoughtfully and with contemplation. This also applies to the almost abstract and absurd discovery of the portrait as a medium, with techniques such as cropping and broaching. How close can you come to the essence of man? I applied those lessons to these portraits of the royal family. ”

High-profile artists
PostNL very much wanted to put the informal photos of the royal family on stamps, explains Stephan van den Eijnden, commercial director Mail of PostNL. “On the 5 stamps released earlier this year with Olaf’s most important work, there was no room for it. Now these accessible and penetrating photos get all the attention they deserve. Today’s issue is also in line with our tradition of regularly commissioning high-profile artists for stamp designs. For example, the permanent stamps with King Willem-Alexander were designed by Studio Job, based on a portrait by photographer Rineke Dijkstra. ”

Erwin Olaf
Erwin Olaf (Hilversum, 1959) attended the School for Journalism in Utrecht and after graduating focused successively on reportage photography and staged photography. In 2013, Olaf designed the statue for the new euro coin with King Willem-Alexander. The photographer has won many prizes, including a Lucie Award (for Achievement in Advertising) and in 2011 the Johannes Vermeer Prize, the Dutch state prize for the arts.

Availability
The stamp sheet The Royal Family has 5 different stamps with the value indication Netherlands 1, intended for mail up to and including 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands. The stamps can be ordered now via the website and at Collect Club customer service on telephone number 088 – 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.

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Garden birds in the Netherlands

The Hague, 23 May 2018 – On 20 May, PostNL issued a new stamp sheet: Garden Birds in the Netherlands. Illustrations of 6 different garden birds adorn this sheet. Michelle Dujardin provided the illustrations, art director Yvonne Warmerdam was responsible for the stamp design.

Second issue with (garden) birds
The Tuinvogels stamp sheet in the Netherlands is a follow-up to the issue that PostNL issued for PostEurop on April 23, Vogels in the Netherlands. At Birds in the Netherlands only 2 birds were central, on the stamp sheet of Garden Birds in the Netherlands 6 garden birds can be seen: blue tit, winter king, robin, house sparrow, golden rooster and great tit.

Every bird has a soul
On the stamps Garden Birds in the Netherlands the illustrations of the birds are placed on the stamps to fill the image. 5 of the garden birds are sitting on a twig, only the house sparrow is sitting on the ground. The illustrations by Michelle Dujardin have its characteristic minimalist style: realistic, with a slight abstract-impressionistic touch. Michelle: “I have chosen 6 common garden birds. They are birds of which everyone at least knows the name. Last summer I saw a golden rooster here in the garden. Striking, because normally you don’t see them often in the west. I have a weakness for the shape of this type of bird, which also includes the wren. Real balls that actually still resemble the egg from which they crawled. On the stamps I have depicted them the way I prefer them. As if every bird is alive, has a soul and could fly up like that.”

Own bird version
For both bird drawings, Michelle used photos to properly capture the feathers, the colors and the shape. “But I always take the liberty to draw my own version of the birds. With a build-up of colors that you don’t always see at first sight, “says Michelle.

Availability
The Tuinvogels stamp sheet in the Netherlands has 6 stamps in 6 different designs, with value designation 1, intended for mail up to 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands. The stamps have been available since May 20 at the post office in the Bruna stores and via the website. The stamps can also be ordered by telephone from Collect Club customer service on telephone number 088 – 868 99 00. The period of validity is indefinite.

Two souvenir sheets issued May 20, 2019, each with its own press release from PostNL.

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Schiermonnikoog gets its own stamp depicting nature and architecture

The Hague – The well-known ‘Mooi Nederland’ (‘Beautiful Netherlands’) stamp series will be dedicated to the Dutch Frisian Islands in 2019. Today, the fifth stamp sheetlet from this series was published, paying ample attention to Schiermonnikoog’s nature and architecture. Stamps depicting Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling and Ameland were published earlier this year. At the same time as the stamps about Schiermonnikoog, PostNL today published an assembled stamp sheetlet depicting all five islands.

Scenic beauty
Since 2005, the ‘Beautiful Netherlands’ stamp series has drawn attention to local history, cultural wealth and scenic beauty. This year’s new series about the Dutch Frisian Islands was designed by Birza Design from Deventer.

Recognisable images of Schiermonnikoog
In the design of ‘Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Schermonnikoog’, the island shape plays the leading role. This is reflected in the map of Schiermonnikoog, which the designers have positioned in miniature on the stamps and in large on the stamp sheetlet. The stamps show recognisable images of the island: the current lighthouse (North Tower, Noordertoren), the former lighthouse (South Tower, Zuidertoren), the lower jaw of a blue whale and the statue of theSchiere Monnik (literally ‘the Grey Monk’), both of which are in the centre of the village. The typical shape of the island is also reflected in the design in other ways. For example, the font used for the captions is a ‘stencil font’, made up of elements that are separate from each other.

Friendly and pleasant
Almost all of the photographs used were taken during a working visit to Schiermonnikoog by graphic designers Ingmar and Carla Birza in the sunny summer of 2018. Carla Birza praises the atmosphere in Schiermonnikoog. ‘It’s very friendly; very pleasant. When we arrived by boat it was immediately obvious how the wind affects tree growth, hence the photo of the windswept rowans. The Westerplas is a beautiful area with a large population of waterfowl, and there is a bird-watching hut in the middle of the water. Schiermonnikoog is home to special objects, some of which we have included on the sheet. There are the images of the monks, of course, and the huge whale jaw. And the special lines of Cape Kobbeduinen. We also incorporated personal memories from our visit in the sheetlet, such as the strikingly woolly common cottongrass. It’s just beautiful when you see it for yourself in nature.’

Availability
The ‘Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Schiermonnikoog’ stamp sheetlet features five identical stamps with ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps are available from 20 May 2019 from PostNL locations on the island of Schiermonnikoog 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.

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Five stamps about the Dutch Frisian Islands, depicting nature and architecture

The Hague – The well-known ‘Mooi Nederland’ (‘Beautiful Netherlands’) stamp series will be dedicated to the nature and architecture of the Dutch Frisian Islands in 2019. Today, the stamp sheetlet from this series has been published, together with the stamp sheetlet about Schiermonnikoog. Stamps depicting Texel, Vlieland, Terschelling and Ameland were published earlier this year.

Scenic beauty
Since 2005, the ‘Beautiful Netherlands’ stamp series has drawn attention to local history, cultural wealth and scenic beauty. This year’s new series about the Dutch Frisian Islands was designed by Birza Design from Deventer.

Recognisable images of Schiermonnikoog
In the design of each of the five stamps of the ‘Beautiful Netherlands 2019’ assembled stamp sheetlet, the island shapes of the five islands plays the leading role. This is reflected in the island maps, which the designers have positioned in miniature on the stamps. Each of the five inhabited Dutch Frisian islands has its own stamp with a distinctive colour. In the background of each stamp there is a duotone landscape photo with a view of the lighthouse of the relevant island. Around it there are photos with typical and recognisable images of the island in question, usually with a nautical character. The typical island shape is also reflected in the design in other ways. For example, the font used for the captions is a ‘stencil font’, made up of elements that are separate from each other.

Friendly and pleasant
Almost all of the photographs used were taken during a working visit to the five islands by graphic designers Ingmar and Carla Birza in the sunny summer of 2018. Carla Birza explains how each island shows its own character. ‘Texel, for example, is very special from a landscape point of view. It’s a kind of mini Netherlands, with polders, a hill, bulb fields, meadows, forests, brook landscapes, farming villages and harbours. Vlieland’s small scale is particularly striking, with its sheer abundance of nature. Terschelling, again, is the most vibrant of all of the islands. And the vast beaches are magnificent, of course.’ The centuries-old commander’s houses were our best memory of Ameland, with a serene street screen. Finally, Schiermonnikoog, where friendliness is perhaps the most distinctive feature.’

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Goldfinch and Plague Bird: Loved And Feared
New stamp issue: Birds in the Netherlands

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PostNL has released new stamps on April 23 for international destinations, with illustrations of the putter and the plague bird. These two colorful birds have an age-old name in Dutch history. Both illustrations were made by Michelle Dujardin, the stamp design by art director Yvonne Warmerdam.

EUROPA Stamp Best Design Competition
PostNL will also send the Birds in the Netherlands stamp sheet for the EUROPA Stamp Best Design Competition. This competition is organized by PostEurop, the organization in which all European national postal companies work together. The design competition for 2019 is all about national birds.

Free and Minimalist Style
On the stamps Birds in the Netherlands, the illustrations of the putter and the plague bird are filled with images in the stamps. The illustrations by Michelle Dujardin have its characteristic minimalist style: realistic, with a slight abstract-impressionistic touch. Michelle: “The putter and the plague bird are consciously set against each other. They fit well together, all 2 start with a p and both have a striking nickname. And they also form a beautiful contradiction – one loved, the other feared. While both are very beautiful birds. ”

Own Bird Version
For both bird drawings, Michelle used photos to properly capture the feathers, the colors and the shape. “But I always take the liberty to draw my own version of the birds. With a build-up of colors that you don’t always see at first sight,” says Michelle.

Second Issue with Garden Birds
As a follow-up to the issue for PostEurop, PostNL will issue a second stamp sheet on 20 May 2019: Garden Birds in the Netherlands. On this issue there are illustrations of 6 garden birds: blue tit, winter king, robin, house sparrow, golden rooster and great tit. Michelle Dujardin also provided the illustrations for this issue and Yvonne Warmerdam the design.

Availability
The Birds in the Netherlands stamp sheet has 6 stamps in 2 different designs, with international value indication 1 for mail up to and including 20 grams with an international destination. The stamps are available from April 23 at the post office in the Bruna stores and via the website. The stamps can also be ordered by telephone from Collect Club customer service on telephone number 088 – 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.

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Mister Pinkpop personally approves anniversary stamps

The Hague, 19 April 2019 – In about fifty days’ time, the 50th edition of Pinkpop will begin. PostNL will honour the oldest open air pop festival in Europe by issuing the 50 years of Pinkpop stamp sheetlet. The five special anniversary stamps will also be for sale soon at the festival site. [issue date June 7th]

3 days, 60 acts, 60,000 visitors
This year, Pinkpop will take place from 8 to 10 June in Landgraaf in the province of Limburg. During the three-day festival, there will be about sixty acts for the audience to enjoy. We expect to welcome 60,000 enthusiastic visitors each day.

Rich history
The five stamps on the 50 years of Pinkpop issue depict the special anniversary logo of the popular festival. The typography in the white frame was printed in gold to give the anniversary an extra sparkle. The stamp sheetlet also contains a description of the unique event, with photos and promotional material from the rich history of the past fifty years.

To the printing press
The 50 years of Pinkpop stamps were printed on 15 April at Joh. Enschedé Security Print in Haarlem, Netherlands. Mister Pinkpop (Jan Smeets) himself was at the printing press for the final inspection. Smeets, who has been the driving force behind the festival for fifty years, was extremely pleased with the issue. “They’re damn beautiful stamps. That’s great, because we have a fantastic line-up of artists for this anniversary year to attract new generations of music lovers. Some big names are coming who are at the heart of Pinkpop, as well as small acts with innovative performances. We keep our eye on the future.”

Performances
This year, various bands can be enjoyed on the various Pinkpop stages. There will be great international artists such as The Cure, Fleetwood Mac, Lenny Kravitz and Mumfords & Sons. Traditionally, the Dutch music scene is strongly represented at the festival, with Anouk, Armin van Buuren, Golden Earring, Jett Rebel, Krezip and Rowwen Hèze, among others.

Availability
The 50 years of Pinkpop stamp sheetlet features five identical stamps with ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps can be ordered now at www.postnl.nl/pinkpop and www.pinkpopsouvenirs.nl and will be delivered from 7 June onwards. They will also be for sale at the Pinkpop festival site from 8 to 10 June. Alternatively, the stamps can be ordered by telephone from the Collect Club customer service on +31 (0)88 – 868 99 00. The validity period is indefinite.

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Terschelling gets own stamp
Focus on nature and architecture

The Hague, March 25, 2019 – The well-known stamp series Beautiful Netherlands in 2019 is dominated by the Dutch Wadden. Today is the third stamp published in this series, with ample attention to the nature and architecture of Terschelling. Earlier this year already appeared on stamps Texel and Vlieland, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog later turn. PostNL also brings a collective sheet on all five islands.

Scenic Beauty
The Beautiful Netherlands series pays attention since 2005 to local history, cultural wealth and natural beauty. The new series this year on the Dutch Wadden designed by Birza Design in Deventer.

Recognizable Images of Terschelling
In the design of the Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Terschelling island shape plays the leading role. This is reflected in the map of Terschelling, who placed the designers in miniature on the stamps and wholesale on the stamp. The stamps are recognizable images of the island: the Brandaris as the oldest lighthouse in the Netherlands, a monumental tombstone in Strieperkerkhof, the clubhouse of the diving team Ecuador, a row of colorful buoys on the town wharf and a spoon with cranberries. The design turns the typical shape of the island is also back in other ways. For example, the font of the labels is a so-called letter box, composed of elements that are separate from each other.

Impressive Nature, Giant Beaches
Almost all dating used photos of a visit to Terschelling by graphic designers and Ingmar Carla Birza, in the sunny summer of 2018. Carla Birza Terschelling describes as an island “where the role of the sea in all respects recognizable. The nature is impressive, especially at the point where the panorama was taken. There you can look around 360 degrees stunning, both the Wadden Sea and the North Sea. I was deeply impressed, I want to go back again. Magnificent dune forest too. And the gigantic natural beaches are magnificent. ”

Availability
The stamp Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Terschelling has five identical stamps with the denomination Netherlands 1, intended for mail up to 20 grams with a destination within the Netherlands. The stamps are available from TNT locations on the island of Terschelling and through March 25, 2019 from the website . The stamps can be ordered by calling the customer service Collect Club at telephone 088-868 99 00. The term of validity is undetermined.

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100 years fly by The Hague, 14 March 2019. In 2019 it was 100 years ago that the Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) and the Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) were founded. In that year Fokker built the first aeroplanes on Dutch soil. PostNL honours this special centenary celebration with the issuance of the 100 Years of Aviation postage stamp sheet.

11 aeroplanes
The 100 Years of Aviation postage stamp sheet consists of 3 stamps and shows 11 aeroplanes as major orientation points in the historical development and also the future of the 3 organisations. The stamps were designed by Edwin van Praet and Tim Hölscher of Total Design from Amsterdam.

From the very first to the very latest
The designers selected well-known and less well-known aeroplanes from 100 years of Dutch aviation. It starts with the F.II, the very first Fokker that was put into operation by KLM. And the last plane on the postage stamp sheet is the NLR Hybrid Electric Plane (concept), which is expected to fly around 2050. In between a parade of aeroplanes will fly by, including the KLM DC-2 Uiver, the Fokker F27 Friendship and the very latest Boeing 787-10, which KLM will start to operate this anniversary year.

3 jubilees
KLM started in 1919 as the Royal Dutch Airlines for the Netherlands and Colonies and is the oldest airline company still operating under its original name. Anthony Fokker also founded the Dutch Aeroplane Factory in 1919, which would later be named after him. Finally, 1919 was the year of the foundation of the National Study Office for Aviation, which nowadays is called NLR, the central institute for aviation and space research in the Netherlands.

Emphasis on the fairy tale
In honour of the celebrating parties Herna Verhagen, managing director of PostNL, presented the postage stamp sheet to Minister Cora van Nieuwenhuizen in the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam this afternoon during the event 100 years of aviation in the Netherlands. Verhagen: “The special jubilee of 3 major icons from aviation, which are inextricably linked, should be accompanied by a special stamp. Certainly when you consider the ties that already existed between PTT, KLM and Fokker from the very start. Aviation has played an important role for (international) post. The cooperation between PTT and KLM was of great economic importance for both parties.”

Availability
The 100 Years of Aviation postage stamp sheet consists of 3 stamps, all marked with Nederland 1, the denomination for mail weighing up to 20 g destined for the Netherlands. The stamps are available as of 11 March 2019 from the post office counter in Bruna stores and online at www.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.

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Vlieland to get its own stamp depicting nature and architecture

The well-known ‘Mooi Nederland’ (‘Beautiful Netherlands’) stamp series will be dedicated to the Dutch Frisian Islands in 2019. Today the second stamp sheetlet from this series was published, paying ample attention to Vlieland’s nature and architecture. Stamps about Texel were published last month and later this year PostNL will put the spotlight on Terschelling, Ameland and Schiermonnikoog. There will also be an assembled stamp sheetlet about all five islands.

Scenic beauty
Since 2005, the ‘Beautiful Netherlands’ stamp series has drawn attention to local history, cultural wealth and scenic beauty. This year’s new series about the Dutch Frisian Islands was designed by Birza Design from Deventer.

Recognisable images of Vlieland
In the design of ‘Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Vlieland’, the island shape plays the leading role. This is reflected in the map of Vlieland, which the designers have positioned in miniature on the stamps and in large on the stamp sheetlet. The stamps show recognisable images of the island: the lighthouse on Vuurboetsduin, a whale jaw as a gravestone, the rescue house on the Vliehors nature reserve and a house with a blue wooden gable on Dorpsstraat. The typical shape of the island is also reflected in the design in other ways. For example, the font of the captions is a ‘stencil font’, made up of elements that are separate from each other.

Nature in abundance
Almost all of the photographs used were taken during a working visit to Vlieland by graphic designers Ingmar and Carla Birza in the sunny summer of 2018. Carla Birza describes Vlieland as an island “characterised by an abundance of nature, but without fences. Visiting Vliehors is a special experience due to its vastness, which sometimes makes it difficult to work out where the horizon is. That is something I have experienced almost nowhere else. The north-eastern point from which you can see Terschelling is also beautiful. Of course, with so much nature, you have to be careful when constructing new buildings. On Vlieland, they handle this issue very carefully.”

Availability
The ‘Beautiful Netherlands 2019: Vlieland’ stamp sheetlet features five identical stamps with ‘Nederland 1’, the denomination for items up to 20g in weight destined for mail in the Netherlands. The stamps are available from 25 February 2019 from PostNL locations on the island of Vlieland 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.