Upon learning through correspondence with an agent of the Mondrian/Holtzman Irrevocable Trust (the Mondrian estate) that the copyright for 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is no longer enforceable in Canada, and in honour of Pac-Mondrian's first international exhibition and US debut in the William Fox Gallery of New York City's Museum of the Moving Image, the Prize Budget for Boys commissioned Canada Post to produce a commemorative stamp designed by Standing Member Ian Hooper with inspiration from the Netherlands 1994 Mondrian stamp, which is issued at the opening of the show on March 18, 2005 in a multiple edition of 20 on an envelope containing never-before-seen correspondence between PBFB and the Mondrian estate certain to delight all serious Philatelists.
The .jpgs submitted by Designer Ian Hooper to the Canadian Bank Note Company were clean 150 dpi high resolution images which were resampled by the Canadian Bank Note Company adding artefacts to the art to achieve the same effect as if the stamps were printed through a screen door. As errorist devotees of the residue of digital processing, the stamps are a PBFB glitch art masterpiece.
Each print was executed under the direct supervision of Designer Ian Hooper, embossed with the Prize Budget for Boys printer's chop, then enclosed in a standard letter envelope affixed with a Canadian Pac-Mondrian 50c stamp. The mailing addresses are holographically enscribed in ink. Enclosed in the envelope is the numbered Certificate of Authenticity embossed with the Prize Budget for Boys legal seal and signed by Standing Member Neil M Hennessy, creator of Pac-Mondrian, Standing Member Mike Brown, designer and painter of the artcade cabinet, Standing Member Mike Horgan, technical visionary, and Standing Member Ian Hooper, designer of the stamp.
