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Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Here's my latest design project. I have to show it off here because you're the kind of people who get it. [Smile]

Postage stamp design

Posted by Derrell (Member # 6062) on :

I like it. Are you going to submit it to the Postal service?

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

no, it was just for class. Plus, I think there's a rule that you can't have someone living on a stamp.

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

Annie, that's awesome. [Smile]

*so proud of her triplet*

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

That is so cool -- and I'm not even a particular fan of his work.

Save it, Annie. He'll die sometime, and you'll be ready!

*runs*

[Edit: Note to self, have enough patience for the whole thing to download before you comment. [No No]

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[ February 03, 2004, 02:26 PM: Message edited by: rivka ]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

I love this stamp! Can you read the letters though, when it's very small? The art is great and was really glad Le Guin made it on there.

Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :

psst--LeGuin's still alive too rivka!

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Nah, she didn't let it load that far. [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

*sulks in the no-broadband corner*

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

[ROFL]

It's okay rivka. When I opened it and saw that the top of the stamp was the same width as my moniter... Well, let's just say I understand. [Razz]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Just for the record, it DID eventually download fully, and it was even cooler. [Big Grin]

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

Cool stamps. All four authors are favorites of mine.

But I really want to thank rivka for giving me an opportunity to post on the "out of context" thread. [Big Grin]

[ February 03, 2004, 03:22 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

I like it! (the top half anyway, the bottom hasn't loaded yet but the window says it's done...)

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Sorry - I keep forgetting that 800 pixels is way huger on a pc than on my mac. I shall go resize as soon as I can. [Smile]

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

Why are there dragons in the LeGuin stamp? Did you mean McCaffery?

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

It was hard finding a symbol for LeGuin- everyone else had an easy iconic association. Anything from a specific novel like the Left Hand of Darkness or the Lathe of Heaven would have been way too esoteric. I finally decided on dragons because I thought that encapsulated the entire Earthsea series pretty well.

Anyway. Resize is up. [Smile]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

Mmmmmmm, Earthsea.....

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

I'm not sure what iconic image comes to mind when I think of Earthsea. A guy on a boat, kinda. And a big metal bracelet.

Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :

I dunno - you could have gone with "Left Hand of Darkness." Maybe a fur-clad hermaphrodite breaking through the ice that has formed on the top of the beer in his/her mug? [Smile]

My computer is weird - I had no trouble at all with the images. [Dont Know]

Posted by PSI Teleport (Member # 5545) on :

For Earthsea...a goat.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

um, yeah, sndrake - that will be on edition two of the stamps. [Razz]

I also had to take into consideration that only a very small percentage of the population actually knows who these people are, so I went as general as possible.

And yes, the type stayed rather readable when reduced down to size - my final printouts were an enlargement of an individual stamp and the group of four at the actual size of 1" by 1.5" each.

Anyway, glad you enjoyed them. I sure had fun indoctrinating the unsuspecting non-dork populace with them.

Posted by larisse (Member # 2221) on :

Annie,

You are way cool. Someday you are going to be so famous, and all of us will be saying, "We knew her when...". This would definitely kick butt as a lithograph or a huge wall painting a la Andy Warhol. Heck, now that I think of it, this would make an amazing mural. Can't wait to see more of your work.

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

quote:
I keep forgetting that 800 pixels is way huger on a pc than on my mac

It would also be "way huger" on an old PowerMac. It isn't very large on my computer.

Posted by Argèn†~ (Member # 4528) on :

800 pixels is 800 pixels no matter what you run. It's the screen resolution which may be different, and that's up to the user. 800 px would be rather small on my 1280 x 1024 resolution.

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

I need occasional fiascoes with digital media to humble myself and I need occasional successes in my beloved print media to prove to everyone that I'm not as big of a technological nitwit as I appear.

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

quote:
You are way cool. Someday you are going to be so famous, and all of us will be saying, "We knew her when...". This would definitely kick butt as a lithograph or a huge wall painting a la Andy Warhol. Heck, now that I think of it, this would make an amazing mural. Can't wait to see more of your work.

Believe me now Annie? [Kiss]

Hobbes

Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :

Annie, those are awesome.

Did you do the original character drawings??? That's darned impressive!!

The design as a whole is also fantastic. I would love to know that my stamp is part of a bigger picture. [Smile]