In case you’ve been ready for a Betty White postage stamp, 2025 is your 12 months. The U.S. Postal Service has introduced its first slate of recent stamps for the brand new 12 months, together with one exhibiting a digital illustration of the late Golden Ladies actress by Dale Stephanos, plus the newest Love and Flag stamps.
“This early glimpse into our 2025 stamp program demonstrates our dedication to offering a various vary of topics and designs for each philatelists and stamp fans,” USPS stamp providers director Lisa Bobb-Semple mentioned in a press release.
An untitled 1985 work by Keith Haring exhibiting two figures with a coronary heart can be subsequent 12 months’s Love stamp, a practice that can be in its 52nd 12 months. The paintings is ideal for a stamp that wants to have the ability to be used not only for Valentine’s Day, however past.
“The non-specificity of the figures permits a wide range of folks to see themselves on this stamp,” USPS artwork director Antonio Alcalá mentioned in a press release. “Companions getting married, celebrating an anniversary, siblings sending one another a heartfelt greeting, and even social gathering planners setting a constructive tone for his or her occasion.”
Subsequent 12 months’s Flag stamp follows a 2023 design that read “Freedom” and gave me post-9/11 “these colours don’t run” vibes. The brand new stamp makes use of a photograph of the U.S. flag by Doug Haigh and “United States of America” written out in a skinny, sans-serif font. Different new stamps which might be a part of long-running sequence popping out subsequent 12 months embody a stamp of musician Allen Toussaint for USPS’ Black Heritage sequence, and a stamp of snake for lunar new 12 months. Designer Camille Chew made a 3D paper snake masks embellished with acrylic paint for the design.
The Appalachian Path is getting its personal pane of 15 stamps with images of the almost 2,200-mile path from each state it runs by way of, and the “American Vistas” stamps are two stamps based mostly on display prints by the Los Angeles design studio DKNG Studios exhibiting a mountain and seaside scene.
This story was initially printed on Yello, a publication about design and politics from Hunter Schwarz.