The logo for StampStories.net is really in three parts.
The illustration, which is also our “favicon,” showing up in the web browser, is emblematic of both writing, the transference of knowledge, and stamps, for obvious reasons. The “stamp” is just an illustration; it is not real.
Many stamps bear images of the quill pen, which was state of the art for centuries in handing down knowledge. If you want to know more, there is a blog post that tells the story.
And then there is the subtitle: “There are more stamps under heaven . . . .” This is a riff on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, (Act 1, Scene 5),who says “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
I like that because it says exactly what I want to say with StampStories: there are thousands of stories waiting to be told, waiting to give me (the writer) and you (the reader) better insight into the many nations of the world, their past, present and dreams of the future.
Thank you, Hamlet. I couldn’t have said it any better.