ORN SMARI NOS CUENTA SOBRE SU TRABAJO CON EL SELLO IMAGINE PEACE

Quiero compartir un mail que Örn Smári, el diseñador de la estampilla para Imagine Peace Tower me escribió ayer contando acerca de su trabajo con el sello:

Re: Imagine Peace-BEATLES MAGAZINE (BLOG)
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 11:11 PM
From: "Orn Smari Gislason" ornsmari@ornsmari.net
To: beatlesmagazine@yahoo.com
Hi Lovely Rita,You are fast!!! always writing. Thanks a lot for your wishes. Well, when I started working on the stamp I thought of a illustration I had made in 1980 on the day John Lennon was buried. Yoko had asked Lennon fans to be quiet for 10 minutes in his honor so I shout my mouth an made this black image from his photo in the White album on the nearest material, a sketch book back. Later in the design process I found it relevant to remake the portrait of Lennon, now from the Imagine Peace labels.But the main idea was to work with the light. The Imagine Peace Tower is made of light so I was trying to illustrate that the tower is more than what meets the eye. It has a deep beautiful l meaning of importance.So the stamp has a "glow In the dark" and UV-ink which illuminates in a light of a different wave lenght. One ide was to print a mirrored text on the back of the stamp so when you put it up against strong light you could read Imagine Paece on the front. But due to European health standards it was not approved.Then I added the extra frame on the stamp sheet so you could make your own little peace light.Well Yoko had to approve everything, illustration, stamp design an the hole. But I never got the chance to talk to her or meet her.I was very exited on the 9 of october, finally to meet Yoko so it was a great disapointment that the ceremony in Videy, when the Imagine Peace Tower was lit for the second time was cancelled because of a bad weather forecast and I did not meet her.As for the book, It is about John's & Yoko fight for peace, the original Lighthouse ide, the Imagine lyrics was translated to Icelandic by the poet Thorarinn Eldjarn. About the building of the tower. Light and the Multifaceted Configurations by Edvard T. Jonsson abut the stamp design and more.

The book is also printed in english and can be baught from the Iceland Post:https://www.postur.is/cgi-bin/hsrun.exe/Distributed/Postphil/Postphil.htx;start=DetectLanguage?Language=LANG_English

Well thats it for now, best regards.

Örn Smári

Graphic Designer