Once a gold is secured, Royal Mail officials have just one hour to review images submitted by official Olympic photographers Getty Images and select one to give to the eight-strong stamp design team in London.

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He repeated the exercise this April with his metal Stamp Lamp during international design fair Salone del Mobile in Milan.

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Until two years ago, a local Bethlehem man used to design and sell a unique stamp for people to buy, which was then followed by the Llandeilo service.

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The MOST exhibition was one highlight of the week, featuring Tom Dixon's flat-pack Stamp Lamps -- and he even invited visitors to design their own lamps using 3d modeling software.

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It was a blue stamp, about twice as long as it was high, whose central design, a picture of the Spirit of St.

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The design of his winning poster was based on a red two-cent stamp in my collection commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of Arbor Day.

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There's always the risk that design work will turn off potential buyers, particularly those looking to put their own stamp on the home.

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