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Famous Industrial Designs Honored On New Stamp Set

This handout image provided by the US Postal Service shows the 12 the Pioneers of American Industrial Design postage stamps, honoring 12 of the nation’s most important and influential industrial designers. The stamps will go on sale nationwide on June 29. There will be a dedication ceremony at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, in New York City.

Remember that colorful Fiesta dinnerware on your mom's or grandma's dinner table? How about the Baby Brownie camera she took snapshots with? Or that heavy, black telephone to chat on?

Those and several other classics of American design are featured on a new set of postage stamps being issued Wednesday. The stamps are designated "forever" and will sell for the first-class rate, currently 44 cents. First-day ceremonies for the stamps will be held at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City on Wednesday, the same day the stamps go on sale nationwide.

The set honors a dozen pioneers of American industrial design, with one of their works on each stamp.

Included are:

— Frederick Hurten Rhead for the sleek and brightly colored Fiesta dinnerware introduced in 1936.

— Walter Dorwin Teague, known as the "dean of industrial design," who created several popular cameras, including the 1934 "Baby Brownie."

— Norman Bel Geddes, a founding member of the American Society of Industrial Designers and a champion of streamlining. He created new looks for cars, trains, planes, buildings, typewriters, stoves, household furnishings and the portable radio shown on the stamp.

— Raymond Loewy, who helped define the look of modern America. He believed products should be simple, functional, and appealing, He designed everything from trains and cars to household appliances, corporate logos and even office tools like the pencil sharpener prototype shown on the stamp.

— Donald Deskey is best known for the lavish art deco interiors he designed in 1932 for Radio City Music Hall in New York City. He was also an innovative industrial designer of furniture and lighting, like the table lamp shown on the stamp.

— Gilbert Rohde was an influential and innovative furniture designer in the 1930s and 1940s. His work included modular and sectional furniture made of wood, chrome, Bakelite, Plexiglass, and other new materials, as well as clocks such as the one shown on the stamp.

— Greta von Nessen specialized in lighting, and none of her designs is better known than the "Anywhere" lamp shown on the stamp.

Cirque du Soleil Zarkana | Radio City Music Hall | NYC Theatre Tickets

From the words “bizarre” and “arcana”, which equates to “secret” or “mystery”, comes the word “Zarkana”, a mysterious fantasy world inhabited by a sad and lonely magician named Zark. Nursing a broken heart and the loss of his magic powers and abilities, he chases his ex-lover and begs for her to come back but instead, he finds himself mingling with surreal beings that only a whimsical mind can think of.

Featuring the talents of 71 acrobats and a set design that perfectly depicts how dream-like and fascinating the world of Zarkana is, this new Cirque du Soleil offering will surely sizzle the summer season when it hits New York’s Radio City Music Hall on June 9, 2011, and will run for almost three months at the world famous venue till it wraps up on the weekend before Labor Day on September 4, 2011. For advanced tickets, premium seating and sold out shows, review the ticket options featured below.

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