Stampville: 25 Stamps + 2 Ink Pads

You are the architect, planner, designer, and builder with this set of rubber stamps and two colored ink pads. The matchbox-style box contains twenty-five woodbacked stamps in an assortment of shapes and textures, all the essential building blocks needed to create a simple house, a whimsical village, or a towering architectural marvel--the combinations are infinite and immediately gratifying.

About the Author:

Aur lien D bat was born in France in 1979. He lives and works in Marseille. After graduating in illustration at Les Arts D coratifs in Strasbourg, he wrote and illustrated children's books. In his more recent work, D bat uses printed images, volumes, installations, objects and toys to explore the relationship between design, architecture and illustrations. His Stampville project proposes a whole set of ready-to-stamp adventure pictograms, buildings and urban elements: a graphic alphabet allowing the user to build real or imaginary cities. Aur lien D bat's images, sometimes realistic, sometimes abstract, question dimensional representation of urban space.