Stamp on first day cover
The artwork was created by photographing a real flag and digitally manipulating several images to achieve the final effect.
Creating a stamp on a 3D fabric surface was an ambitious undertaking—ink behaves much more predictably on smooth paper. For example, many metallic inks lose much of their metallic lustre while strangely, certain non-metallic inks look metallic on the fabric-like material.
Souvenir sheet
The design team worked closely with the printer and conducted numerous tests before arriving at something that could be achieved consistently during the final production run. In addition, the relatively coarse fabric texture meant that the very fine type sizes normally used for information such as the ‘hidden data’ and credits, had to be adjusted considerably to be legible.
Detail of fabric texture
