ejnord.com | Cuban Stamp: The Swiss Connection

I originally saw this Che stamp on the Turntable Lab blog. Then I went looking for a bigger, cleaner scan of it, and found So Much Pileup. And so I had a double discovery: a great Cuban stamp and a new blog to follow. This stamp reminded me of of one of the classic, pioneering radial grid posters by Mueller-Brockmann. It seems like those somewhat random connections are how I find a lot of inspiration and new ideas.

The idea behind posting both of these images isn’t to suggest that the Cuban stamp was necessarily influenced by Mueller-Brockmann, but simply to point out two examples of a radial grid: one using it to suggest the emanation of radio signals, and the other suggesting time and/or an orbiting relationship.