Ahh, postage. There are few pastimes I treasure more than snail mail. I like to think I help keep it alive in this world of emails, texts, e-vites and e-cards. When posed with the task of crafting a trio of postage stamps, I instantly thought tongues. For more than a hundred and fifty years, stamps were affixed to envelopes via a lick of the tongue—it wasn't until the 1990's that the USPS started mainstreaming self-adhesive stamps. Always on the lookout for that element of surprise and whimsy, I decided to spotlight my stamp designs on the three animals with the longest tongues. And their shape? Rectangles are so last century. I used a distinguishing feature of each animal's profile to frame the stamp.

Now, if the USPS would only feel so inclined to incorporate such stamps into their collection...