The design for my poster was influenced by this wonderful Russian stamp from 1979. The Shukhov Radio Tower was designed by Vladimir Shukhov and built around 1922. Its still just about standing but is an endangered building according to Wikipedia.
The tower itself is an amazing hyperboloid steel structure as you can see in this public domain photograph below by Arsenyev. However, its the great colour scheme and graphic impact of the stamp design that really grabs me - so typically Russian it seems to me. I can't find any mention of who created the artwork, only that it belongs to the USSR Postal Service.
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