DesignPublic design
A stamp sheet for now
A stamp is small enough to ignore and powerful enough to carry a national mood. What should Pakistan choose to miniaturise next?
A stamp can hold a building, a plant, a poet, a protest, a sport, a craft, a river or a warning. The constraint is the point: one image, one value, one occasion.
Design at postal speed
Good stamps work quickly. They are read at arm's length, upside down, in a hurry — and they still have to mean something.
Beyond monuments
The next set could include ordinary objects and public systems, not only official greatness: a bus stand, a canal head, a tiffin carrier, a printing block.
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