Faculty stamps have a new, uniform design

Although more than five years have passed since the introduction of the new unified visual style of Masaryk University, we can still find some areas across the university where it has not yet been implemented. One of them was the stamps of academic and service departments of our faculty until this summer. These have been largely in use since 2006 when they were last replaced across the board after the suffix “in Brno” disappeared from the university's name. After the introduction of the unified visual style, only the stamps of the dean's offices were graphically renewed in 2020; however, even their appearance had become outdated and did not correspond to the current template recommended by the university. Therefore, guidelines were issued this year introducing a new, uniform stamp design across the faculty in line with the university-wide template, and all 107 institutional stamps across the faculty were converted to this design.

In doing so, we chose a way that was as cost-effective and environmentally responsible as possible - where technically achievable, only the plate was replaced, not the entire stamp. However, even the stamp machines that were in poor condition or did not match the parameters of the new stamp form were largely replaced from a pool of older, unused stamps collected throughout the faculty.

In addition, all the stamps have been given new serial numbers and are subject to central registration. Thus, although their importance is still declining in the era of advancing digitization, they have gained formal respectability by this step.

And one unsuspected bonus at the end: in our search for older, unused stamping machines that might still be of use, we discovered many historical gems throughout the faculty, which we would like to present to you soon as part of a mini-exhibition on the history of the faculty's stamps.