True North was appointed by Royal Mail’s Stamp Advisory Committee last summer to participate in a general ‘scoping’ exercise and was selected to develop its concept through to final artwork, with photography by James Callaghan.
The six stamps depict some of the UK’s best known racing car drivers, including Graham Hill, winner of the ‘Triple Crown’ and Monaco Grand Prix, Scottish legend Jim Clark, winner of 25 Grand Prix before he died tragically at the age of 32 and Sir Stirling Moss, who this year celebrates the 50th anniversary of winning the Grand Prix, as well as the 1986 driver of the Williams FW11, Nigel Mansell.
The presentation pack includes profiles of all the drivers by motor racing journalist Richard Rae.
True North has also designed a series of Harry Potter stamps, which will be released on 17 July to mark the last Harry Potter novel by author JK Rowling.
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/135287/True+North+on+pole+position.html
Having already looked at some recent stamp designs I think its an interesting area to explore when it comes to design. When a company is given a brief like this to create a set of stamps the canvas is a very very small and the idea has to be represented within these restraints. Here True North have been given the task of creating stamps to represent 100 years of motor sport. They have not gone for action shots however. These shots would be busy and perhaps take away from the aesthetics of the vehicles and the development in shape over the years as technology improved. They have instead gone for plan views of the cars to capture their design and shape.
I think this is a brilliant solution to the design needs of the brief.
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