THE DESIGNERS

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32077, 27 August 1969, Page 1

THE DESIGNERS

An artist whose work will enter every household in the country and many overseas

next year had never designed stamps before she undertook work on five of the 1970 definitive stamp issue.

Miss E. Hunter had studied graphic design at the Hull Regional College of Arts and Crafts in England before

she came to New Zealand in 1965. She joined the Post Office and was working in a toll room in Wellington when the competition to find the new postage stamp artists was announced last year. She was selected to work on the new issue, and her designs for the Jc, Ic, 2c, 18c, and 20c stamps have been chosen. Miss E. Mayo has designed six stamps—2ic, 3c, 4c, sc, 6c, and 7c. A professional freelance designer, she trained in London and Paris, has designed a number of stamps issued by the Australian Post Office and is a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, London, and other British exhibitions.

Mr M. V. Askew, a senior lecturer in design at the Uni-

versity of Canterbury School of Fine Arts, designed the 28c stamp. He graduated from the Birmingham College of Art and is now doing designer work for films and theatre. He is vice-president of the Society of Industrial Designers.

Mr M. Cleverley, designer of the Royal 10c stamp, and the 15c, 25c, $l, and $2 stamps, is a development designer employed by Crown Lynn Potteries, Auckland,, and a council member of the Society of Industrial Designers. He was a Queen Elizabeth Arts Council scholar at the University of Canterbury, specialising in graphic design.

Mr D. B. Stevenson, a fulltime art teacher at Whangarei Girls’ High School, designed the 71c and 8c stamps. He specialised in graphic design at the University of Canterbury School of Fine Arts.