US Postal Service Issues 'Pioneers of Industrial Design' Stamps, Celebrates at Cooper-Hewitt

Design fans, philatelists, and design-loving philatelists, take note! Today the United States Postal Service issued its highly anticipated new “Pioneers of Industrial Design” stamps (now on sale at post offices nationwide) and celebrated with a dedication ceremony at—where else?—the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Available in a sheet of 12, the Forever stamps honor some of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers. The designing dozen consists of Norman Bel Geddes, Dave Chapman, Donald Deskey, Walter Dorwin Teague, Henry Dreyfuss, Frederick Hurten Rhead, Raymond Loewy, Peter Müller-Munk, Eliot Noyes, Gilbert Rohde, Greta von Nessen, and Russel Wright.