Ruud Janssen's Blog – December 2011 Archive (8)

IUOMA Postage Stamps 25 Years

Today I received a wonderful gift from Heleen de Vaan (Netherlands). She used the IUOMA design to order a special sheets of original dutch Postage Stamps. The sheets itself is just beautiful. I will send a photo to the designers of the logo too so they know what is happening with their design.…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 23, 2011 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Mail to Lancillotto belini - Italy

Well, exactly 50 grams went into this painted envelope for lancillotto. He returned some of the stampsheets and since he produces a lot os stmps he got this envelope filled with new sheets, some cards and a little surprise...

Added by Ruud Janssen on December 22, 2011 at 6:42pm — No Comments

Mail from Picasso Gaglione

A card from Picasso Gaglione (Chicago - USA) with on it Alison Knowles, Darlene Domel and Myself. A performance we did in April 2010 at the Stendhal Gallery in New York Ciry. He took this photo. Very nice to see these memories back in the mail with the funny rubberstamp attached to it.

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 18, 2011 at 8:38am — No Comments

New rubber from E - France

some new rubber from E in France arrived. I already printed it onto some envelopes that will go out next weeks....…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 7:37pm — No Comments

ZOLIP and ZALUP arrived

The echo of my two words arrived back from South Africa. Thank you …

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 1:40pm — 2 Comments

Mail to and from Heleen de Vaan

Heleen de Vaan sent me this envelope with the lovely IUOMA rubberstamp in it. Thanks so much. What I do with a gift like that? Use it on all the new envelopes that go out connected to the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and the first one goes out to Heleen:

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 17, 2011 at 10:00am — 3 Comments

New book by John Held Jr. (2 Parts) - USA

Part – 1 (page 1-439) and Part -2 (page 440-919) of the book “Where the Secret is Hidden” , Collected Essays, 1979-2011 containing 106 essays written over 30 years on the 20th Century cultural avant-garde including Duchamp, Cage, Mail Art, Fluxus, BiY, zine and artist publishing, international cultural networking, performance art, rubber stamps and other artistic mediums the mainstream considers marginal. Each essay is illustrated with the publication in which it first appeared or an…

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Added by Ruud Janssen on December 10, 2011 at 6:08pm — 9 Comments

new proposal for logo IUOMA 25 years

After some advices the students came up with this logo (new font and white letters on the red mail-box. What do you think?

Added by Ruud Janssen on December 7, 2011 at 9:18am — 3 Comments

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