Postage Stamps in the Making
Postage Stamps in the Making

Author: Frederick John Melville

Publisher:

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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[Vol. 1:] design, paper-making, printing, Perkings process of engraving, litographic, letterpress, rotary photogravure, perforating, ink, gum.

European Stamp Design
European Stamp Design

Author: David H. T. Scott

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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Focusing on five European countries, this book explores the role that stamps play in shaping and reflecting national identity and the way they reflect the fundamental design developments within their period. It reveals how national icons evolve and how commemmorative issues reflect fundamental design as well as creative concerns. It also highlights the role of the stamp designers, showing how many famous artists, including M.C. Escher, Hans Erne, Edmund Doulac, David Gentleman and Eric Gill, have contributed to the development of stamp design. A whole chapter is devoted to the design of British and French colonial issues.

Graphic Stamps
Graphic Stamps

Author: Tony Brook

Publisher:

Published: 201?

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 9780993231643

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"The Archive Series is a bibliographic celebration of graphic design archives and collections. The first title in the new series is devoted to the design of postage stamps. Sourced from the collections of stamp design experts Iain Follett and Blair Thomson, the book celebrates the brilliance of postage stamp design from around the world."--Provided by publisher.

London, You're Beautiful
London, You're Beautiful

Author: David Gentleman

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2012-05-17

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0141974885

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David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life, and for the past year has spent his days focused on looking afresh at the city. The resulting book of sketches, drawings and watercolours, arranged month by month, shows a year in the life of London and reveals the city that is hidden in plain view. From its surprising expanse of sky to the crushed closeness of the tube, from Rainham Marshes to Hampstead Heath, David Gentleman gives us London on a human scale. Accompanied by his thoughts on looking and drawing, whether it is what catches his eye in a certain square or selecting the media - pencil, pen and ink, watercolour - best suited to capture each of the city's various aspects, as well as his reflections on the place he has lived in for over sixty years, this is a book for all those inspired by London, art and design. David Gentleman is a watercolourist and printmaker, working in many media and scales. He has designed British stamps and coins and the platform-length mural at Charing Cross tube station, well-known to Londoners, that is blown up from his wood engravings. His studio is at the top of an early Victorian house in Camden Town between the crowded, rackety Camden Lock and the green spaces of Regent's Park and Primrose Hill.