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First Day Cover text for Creative Industries
The key to Hong Kong's success is its ability to reinvent itself in tune with the times. From its humble beginning as a fishing village, Hong Kong blossomed into a manufacturing hub and today, as we advance into the 21st century, Hong Kong has moved to embrace and nurture creative industries as the new millennium's dynamic growth sector. Customarily, the creative industries involve economic activities that make use of creativity, skill and intellectual property to produce and distribute products and services of social and cultural meaning, thus helping to realise the potential for wealth generation and job creation.
To highlight the dynamic and progressive nature of creativity and technology, this set of stamps features the elements of 11 domains of creative industries in inspiring graphics and bold abstracts.
The $1.40 stamp represents the Advertising, Architecture and Design industries with three basic shapes - circle, square and triangle - creating a definitive image through a clever combination of colours and tones.
The $2.40 stamp illustrates the Digital Entertainment, Publishing, Software and Computing industries, which today share the same digital language. Binary notation and the 'www' of the world-wide web are combined with familiar keyboard symbols and ingenious emoticons to create a striking graphic image.
The $3 Film and Video, Music, Television and Radio stamp represents digital technology, which is widely applied in these industries. Radiating and perpendicular lines in an array of colours abstractly present the inexhaustible variety of audio-visual productions.
The $5 Art, Antiques and Crafts and Performing Arts stamp is about lifestyle and taste. The free strokes in black, gold and white executed stylishly against the contrasting red backdrop are suggestive of an infinite creativity.
The First Day Cover design reprises the graphic elements of the four stamps with the focus on man, the prime mover for creativity