The Royal Mail’s Album Cover Stamps By Studio Dempsey

In collaboration with London-based Studio Dempsey, The Royal Mail unveil’s its first set of ten 1st class stamps that celebrate classic British album covers on January 7, 2010. Uniquely designed like a vinyl disc sliding out of a record sleeve, the stamps feature legendary British album covers from The Rolling Stones, The Clash and more.

Great music aside, the focus of The Royal Mail’s stamps project is on the designers, those responsible for some of the finest examples of album design; as iconic as the music itself. The Royal Mail actually enlisted the help of editors from UK music magazines, plus graphic designers and design writers, to offer opinions on the most significant album sleeve artwork used on records by British artists. [via ajnotebook]