Postage stamps have very quickly receded into redundancy in public consciousness. Digital media have so completely displaced all handwritten communication that most people simply no longer use, or even see, postage stamps. A number of acquaintances have told me that they no longer have a physical postal address (in Namibia, this would be a post box at the nearest post office), and I wonder how many children even know what a postage stamp is. For more than a quarter century, I have designed postage stamps for NamPost. When my first series of stamps was published in 1998, it was the early days of the Internet and email. WhatsApp and similar messaging applications did not yet exist. People still wrote letters, tourists still sent stacks of postcards. There was broad public interest in postage stamps – and what they depicted and represented. At the time, stamps were seen as miniature ambassadors. They portrayed the heritage of their country of origin. Stuck on postal items as a marker of postage paid they travelled out into the world, creating awareness and promoting their country, its attractions and pertinent issues. Namibia was deemed particularly effective at producing high-quality philatelic products (i.e. stamps, first-day covers, souvenir sheets, etc.), and was recognised internationally for the beauty of its stamps, twice winning the Most beautiful stamp in the world award at the Stamp World Cup.