— unpredictable thoughts

ray and charles eames get stamped

I was won­der­ing around the blog­space I hate the word blog xx sphere just doesn’t sit with me, and found a post about the new postal stamps hon­or­ing the work of Ray and Charles Eames.

It’s a won­der­ful lit­tle col­lec­tion of their work the fur­ni­ture, the tex­tiles. It’s always easy to show the objects and appre­ci­ate them for the expe­ri­ence they bring to our envi­ron­ment. But, we can’t take a pic­ture of the the thought process, the expe­ri­ences, the research, the exper­i­ment­ing that  brings us to these things. We can only enjoy the prod­uct of these processes and know that the process must have been won­der­ful because the chair we sit in is such a joy to all of our senses.

I want to buy hun­dreds of the stamps and stick them on post­cards and let­ters to every­one I know.

I want to do a spe­cial mail­ing just so I can put these stamps up in the cor­ner of the enve­lope, send­ing beauty on a postal adven­ture — past the machine eyes that sort and direct. Maybe I should send one of each stamp to myself too.

Tags: eames, stamps, design, modernists