You can now vote for the most beautiful SEPAC stamp and, at the same time, take part in the draw for a €6000 prize! The competition runs from 6 May to 30 October 2010 on the SEPAC website “Small European Postal Administrations”. Votes may be cast on the SEPAC web site or at the exhibitions in which the SEPAC members take part throughout the world.

SEPAC has according to its own website 13 members the Faroe Islands, Gibraltar, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, San Marino and Åland. The Sepac stamps aim to highlight the history, nature and culture of the member countries. (read more)

published May 6th, 2010

Heidi graces Europa stamp!

This year’s Europa stamp is dedicated to the children’s book Heidi. Since the novel was first published in the late nineteenth century, Johanna Spyri’s character Heidi has been a true international hit and has had a lasting impact on the image of Switzerland. A good reason then, for Swiss Post to dedicate a stamp to the little orphan girl Heidi. (read more)

published April 29th, 2010

Pinocchio is a fictional character that first appeared in 1883, in The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi , and has since appeared in many adaptations of that story and others. (read more)

published April 25th, 2010

PostEurop launched the online competition on Europe Day, organised this year around the theme of “Children’s Books”. With over fifty creative entries from across Europe, the EUROPA competition is now open to all web viewers until 8 August 2010. (read more)

published April 23rd, 2010

Europa stamps have been issued annually since 1956 by European Postal Administrations. Initially stamps were a common design in all countries but since 1974 the designs have a common theme. The theme elected by Post Europe in 2009 is ‘Astronomy’. All stamps have Europa written on them. The common themes for the coming years Europa issues are as follows

2010: Children Books

2011: Forests – International year of forests

2012: Visit… (for instance “Visit Spain” or “Visit Ireland” etc.)

We will shortly be running a poll to hear your views on Europa stamps issues so please make sure to visit us and to find out more and have your say on what you would like to see in future issues.

published March 19th, 2010

The artist selected by P&TLuxembourg to illustrate this theme is Luxembourg artist Muriel Moritz. Born in 1976 in Luxembourg, Muriel Moritz earned in 1999 a diploma in Illustration and Cartooning at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Bruxelles. Since 1996, she has developed a solid reputation as an illustrator of children’s books, schoolbooks, as well as for her exhibitions. Muriel Moritz organizes workshops for children at the Luxembourg summer academy (CEPA) and at the Kulturhuef Grevenmacher. EUROPA competition

The contest for the best EUROPA stamp is an annual online event and the result is communicated during the plenary Assembly of PostEurop. The first contest took place in 2002. All official stamps can (read more)

published March 14th, 2010

Children’s Books is the theme for this year’s Europa stamps, which are issued by the members of the Posteurop postal organization. The Swedish stamps honor two female children’s book authors who are separated by three-quarters of a century but share similarities in their writing styles, Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) and Lena Anderson (1939-).

“I would say that Lena Anderson is a modern version of Elsa Beskow. Both want to entertain their readers while still teaching their young readers a lesson. They expertly weave together artistry, storytelling and pedagogics,” says Cecilia Östlund, senior librarian at the Swedish Institution for Children’s Books in Stockholm. (read more)

published February 27th, 2010

published February 14th, 2010

Contemporary Greenlandic visual art, children’s books, acting and aviation. The themes of the seven stamps issued by POST Greenland on 18^th January cover a wide range. The main theme of the seven stamps is: The Role of Modern Greenland in a globalized world. Two of the five artists behind the stamps make their début as stamp artists.

“Contemporary Greenlandic Art”, Part IV

The fourth part of POST Greenland ’s series ‘Contemporary Greenlandic Art’ displays the (read more)

published January 18th, 2010