Tejashri Kapure
Communication designer
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Canada Post


In honour of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, Canada Post issued a stamp celebrating the work of world-renowned Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate Dr. John Charles Polanyi.

Design Rational: The background image is a cropping of actual bromine atoms photo-imprinted on a silicon surface. This image is part of current research in molecular-scale printing lead by Professor Polanyi at the University of Toronto. The graphic on the lower right shows molecules moving within the three states of a chemical reaction: initial state, transition state and final state. We included this graphic as part of the stamp as Professor Polanyi won a Nobel prize in 1986 for his contribution in initiating a new field of chemistry called reaction dynamics that deals with the prediction of the pattern of the motion of molecules in a chemical reaction. The wavy lines behind the molecules emphasize transition within a chemical reaction.
Project: Postage stamp
Role: Design
Studio: q30 design inc.