The beleaguered Post Office is said to be cutting back, but it hasn't cut back on intelligent, informative, and well-designed stamps. I was tickled to see the "Pioneers of Industrial Design" commemoratives, which pay homage to some of the designers of many of America's iconic and useful objects. The history on the back of the stamps is great as well. I'm going to have a hard time using these stamps as postage.
You could say that some of the products shown on the stamps are like industrial equivalents of Proust's madeleines. Seeing a Brownie camera or Fiesta pitchers catapults me (a designer of a certain age, admittedly) into a love of consumer goods I didn't know I had.
