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Marking 25 years since the inauguration of the service, this commemorative stamp was launched just as powerful new transmitters were commissioned, extending their reach to new audiences with the line “Speaking to the World”. Kramer employs an effective approach to offset and repeat the stylised maple leaf form, a visual metaphor for the relaying and broadcasting of messages across long distances. It’s interesting to observe that Kramer employed a similar metaphor to his famous CBC logo (one and the same organization), designed some 3 years later.

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