24/02/11 – Sixteen-part postage stamp series commemorating three key figures of the Czechoslovak independence movement: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Edvard Beneš and Milan Rastislav Štefánik. Of the sixteen, twelve are engravings and four photogravures. The designs date from 1945-7 and were executed by Jindra Schmidt. Note the visual difference between the two printing processes and the range of colours indicating denomination.

Sources and more information
Czechoslovak stamp collection on Flickr//

19/07/10 – Series of 13 postage stamps from Czechoslovakia designed by Jaroslav Lukavsky featuring traditional Czech and Slovak folk motifs and architecture.

16/07/10 – Matchbox label series from 1959 for the Czechoslovak Red Cross. Messages include such wise adages as: “Alcoholism ruins society.” “Play safe!” “Keep your town clean.” and “Respiratory exams catch TB early.”

12/07/10 – Illustration by Aldo Rossi from the exhibition ‘La conica’ e altre caffettiere held September 8-11, 1984 in Milan.

A note about the show:

This exhibition illustrates the genesis of the “La conica” cofee-maker, named so after the conical shape of its lid.

It is an espresso coffee-maker developed for Alessi after research started in 1980 on the theme of coffee and tea, the rites and their instruments for preparation and service. Pots, pitchers, the New Orleans coffee-maker, espresso coffee-makers, percolators: notes, sketches, drawings, good photographs and “private” Polaroid shots on a subject so dear to the author that it has become a sort of obsession, a constant presence in many of his architectural drawings which eventually has transformed itself into a real object, to be touched and used.