I Made Some Star Trek Stamps

Ever since we re-emerged from lockdown, I’ve made a point to take a class at the San Francisco Center for the Book once in a while. They’re a bunch of dedicated craftspeople who teach all of those old skills I love to learn. This time it was Faux Postage :: Lick 'Em & Stick 'Em and I had a great time.

I made these TNG stamps, which I did with improvised masks to make the word bubbles, and a set of TNG character rubber stamps I got for my birthday when I was a teenager. Things went…awry during class. My stamp pad disintegrated in the middle of stamping and left globs of extra ink everywhere. Luckily the work isn’t too far gone - one of my classmates said the characters look like they’re being lost in the spacetime continuum. And the perforations came out great. I added all the lettering later at home with my Olivetti Valentine. Might scan and clean these up later because I do genuinely like the overall look. Or maybe I’ll just send them out to people. We did use real gummed paper. :)

I was thinking about using “Propter Post” as a fictional postal service / artistamp nickname.