Designer: Jan Slothouber

Jan Slothouber

Jan Slothouber was a Dutch designer and architect who collaborated extensively with William Graatsma on modular design projects. Their best known work is the Cubic Children’s Stamps of 1970, designed for the Dutch PTT, a set of stamps based on cubic geometric forms that became one of the most significant examples of Dutch stamp design of the postwar period. Their collaborative practice explored systematic, three-dimensional approaches to visual communication.

Explore related designers including William Graatsma and Ootje Oxenaar. See also Dutch Modernism, Stamps, and Dutch graphic design history.

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The stamps for the 1970 editions were designed by Jan Slothouber and William Graatsma in collaboration with the Centre for Cubic Constructions (CCC) in Heerlen.  Every stamp displays a different corner point of the same block, highlighting eight distinct corner points, with four chosen for their unique identities.

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