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Spend a few minutes on developer Twitter and you’ll run into it: “vibe coding.” With a name like that, it might sound like a passing internet trend, but it’s become a real, visible part of software culture. It’s shorthand for letting AI generate code from simple language prompts instead of writing it manually.In many ways, it’s great. AI has lowered the barrier to entry for coding, and that’s pulled in a wave of hobbyists, designers, and side-project tinkerers who might never have touched a codebase before. Tools like Warp, Cursor, and Claude Code uplevel even professional developers, making it possible to ship something working in hours instead of weeks.But here’s the flip side: when AI can move faster than you can think, it’s easy to run straight past the guardrails. We’ve already seen how that can go wrong, like with the recent Tea app breach, which shows even polished, fully tested code can hide critical vulnerabilities if humans don’t review it thoroughly. Optimizing for speed over clarity lets AI produce something that works in the moment, but without understanding it, you can’t know what might break later. This isn’t just technical debt anymore; it’s a risk to customer trust.The instinctive reaction to solve this trade-off is to throw more tech at the problem: add automated scans, add a “secure by default” setting. Those things matter. But I’d argue that failure in vibe coding doesn’t start with tooling, it starts with leadership. If you don’t lead your team through this new way of working, they’ll either move too slow to benefit from AI or move so fast they start breaking things in ways a security checklist can’t save you from.The real job is steering, not slowing downWhen we built agentic coding agent Warp 2.0, we put a simple mandate in place: “Use Warp to build Warp.” That means every coding task started with prompting an AI agent. Sometimes it nailed it in one shot; sometimes we had to drop back to manual coding. But the point wasn’t dogma, it was to force us to learn, as a team, how to work in an agent-driven world.We learned quickly that “more AI” doesn’t automatically mean “better.” AI can write a thousand lines of plausible-looking code before you’ve finished your coffee. Without structure, that’s a recipe for brittle, unmaintainable systems. The real challenge was getting people to treat AI-generated code with the same discipline as code they wrote themselves.That’s a leadership problem. It’s about setting cultural norms and making sure they stick.Three things leaders need to get right1. Hold developers accountable The biggest mental trap is treating the AI as a second engineer who “owns” what it wrote. It doesn’t. If someone contributes code to a project, they own that code. They need to understand it as deeply as if they typed it out line by line. “AI wrote it” should never be an excuse for a bug.Leaders can’t just say this once; they have to model it. When you review code, ask questions that make it clear you expect comprehension, not just functionality: “Why does this query take so long to run?” “What happens if the input is null?” That’s how you set the standard that understanding is part of shipping.2. Guide AI with specificsUsing large, one-shot prompts is like cooking without tasting as you go: sometimes it works, but usually it’s a mess. AI is far more effective when you request small, testable changes and review them step by step. It’s not just about quality, it also builds a feedback loop that helps your team get better at prompting over time.In practice, this means teaching your team to guide the AI like they’d mentor a junior engineer: explain the architecture, specify where tests should live, and review work in progress. You can even have the AI write tests as it goes as one way to force smaller, verifiable units of work.3. Build the review culture nowIn AI workflows, teams move fastest when AI and humans work side by side, generating and reviewing in small steps. The first draft of a feature is the most important one to get eyes on. Have someone review AI-generated work early and focus on the big-picture questions first, like whether it’s secure, reliable, and solves the right problem. The leadership challenge is making reviews a priority without slowing anyone down. Have teams aim to give feedback in hours, not days, and encourage finding ways for work to keep moving while reviews happen. This builds momentum while creating a culture that values careful, early oversight over rushing to get something done.Guardrails only work if people use themSafety tools and checks can help catch mistakes, but they don’t replace good habits. If a team prioritizes speed over care, AI guardrails just get in the way, and people will find ways around them.That’s why the core of leading in the AI era is cultural: you have to teach people how to integrate AI into their workflow without losing sight of the fundamentals. The teams that get this right will be able to take advantage of the speed AI enables without bleeding quality or trust. The ones that don’t will move fast for a while, until they ship something that takes them down.Vibe coding isn’t going away, and I think that’s a good thing. So long as teams lead with people, not just technology, they will come out ahead and create better experiences for users along the way.
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MacworldBlack Friday season is upon us, and that means it’s a great time to find a bargain or two on one of the best Macs around. Whether you’ve just pulled the trigger or simply have your eye on a new computer, though, there’s one thing you should really consider: pairing it up with a capacious external storage drive.Why? Well, there are plenty of reasons, from freeing up precious internal space to saving you wads of cash. And with SSD prices getting lower all the time, there’s no need to opt for a slower hard disk drive (HDD). Pick up an external drive and you can elevate your Mac experience, particularly if you don’t travel with your device a lot. Here are six reasons why you should consider getting an external storage drive for your Mac.Save moneyWe all know that Apple’s Macs are pricey machines, but there are a few areas where this is starker than with their internal storage. Upgrade a drive in the M5 MacBook Pro from 512GB to 1TB, for example, and you’ll have to pay $200. For a 4TB drive, meanwhile, the upgrade cost is an enormous $1,200. That’s a pricey decision for anyone who wants a built-to-order Mac.Thankfully, external storage is nowhere near that expensive. A 1TB external SSD can be yours for under $100, while you can snag a 4TB drive for well under $300. There’s no need to pay Apple’s extortionate prices.Granted, there are some caveats. Apple’s SSDs are incredibly fast and are likely to be much zippier than any external drive you pick up (even if you get an SSD instead of an HDD). There’s also the hassle of having a loose storage device cabled up to your Mac. But for the massive savings you can make on an external drive, that’s often all worth it.Storing large files and appsAdd a few oversized files and apps to your Mac, and its internal storage can quickly become overloaded. That’s especially true if you opted for one of the smaller storage options, but it can happen to anyone who has used a Mac for long enough and built up a sprawling library of files.That’s where an external drive can come in handy. Instead of constantly performing organizational gymnastics and deleting old files just to free up a few scraps of space, buy a spacious external storage drive and use that instead. As we saw earlier, it’s much cheaper to purchase an external SSD than to pay for one of Apple’s own internal upgrades, and it has the added benefit that you can take your drive anywhere and connect it to a different Mac and still have access to your files.You can even install apps on connected drives and use them that way. Just make sure the storage device is connected to your Mac whenever you want to run the app.Using an external storage device with your Mac provides the user with a lot of flexibility.Thomas Bergbold Time Machine backupsBacking up your Mac is incredibly important if you don’t want to lose all your important documents should the worst happen and your Mac dies. But if you’re intimidated by the various options at your disposal and how you actually go about backing up your files, getting an external drive could be the ideal solution.All you need to do is connect it to your Mac and set it up as a Time Machine drive using our simple instructions, and you’re good to go. Keep it hooked up and your Mac will back up on its own schedule, without you needing to lift a finger.Considering how affordable spacious external disks can be, that’s a great way to ensure your files are safely protected should your Mac kick the bucket. And for an extra layer of protection, you might want to harness the powers of a cloud backup app to keep your files sequestered offsite. That’ll keep them safe if both your Mac and external drive are taken out of action.Easy replacementsThere was a time when you could open up a Mac and swap out its internal storage. Unfortunately, those days are long gone now, meaning that once you’ve made your choice and bought your Mac, you’re stuck with whatever internal storage capacity you opted for.That’s not the case when it comes to external disks, however. They’re far easier to chop and change–just connect a different drive up to your Mac and away you go (provided it’s formatted for macOS, that is). If your external drive dies, there’s no need to worry about a costly trip to the Apple Store for a laborious replacement, either, as you merely need to get a cheap replacement drive to step into the breach. That means that substituting an external storage disk isn’t as much of a problem as swapping out a dead or insufficient internal SSD.VersatilityWe’ve alluded to it a little in previous sections, but a key advantage of using a peripheral storage drive is its versatility. You can connect and disconnect it whenever you need, put whatever you want on it, hook it up to a different Mac, format it for Windows and other operating systems, and more.And when you’re done with your current Mac, you can keep your external drive and use it with whatever device you buy next. It can keep up with your evolving needs, giving it a degree of flexibility that you don’t get if you stick with the drives already inside your Mac. With those, you lose them as soon as you sell or recycle your Mac. Not so with a separate SSD.Safer beta testingSoftware betas are a good way to try out new macOS features before they’re released to the public, but they’re also a good way to render your Mac inoperable if something goes wrong. Betas tend to be full of bugs and glitches, and while many will be fairly harmless, there’s a chance you could encounter one that causes damage and requires you to factory reset your Mac, potentially erasing your files in the process.Many companies have the option to buy an empty case so you can use an SSD module you already have.Thomas Bergbold That’s why it’s a great idea to not only back up your Mac, but to install macOS betas to an external disk drive. If you must run beta software, doing so this way creates a degree of separation between your important documents and the beta.It means that if you run into a serious bug and need to reinstall macOS, you only need to do so on the connected drive, not on your Mac itself. That way, you shouldn’t need to erase your primary disk drive and lose any files stored on there, enabling you to continue testing out the beta without as much of the risk attached to it.
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This year, Black Friday tech shoppers should heed one important message: Don’t wait, buy now. Why? Because certain components are skyrocketing in price—and it’s expected to get even worse. DRAM prices, for example, have doubled in little more than a month.AI hyperscalers have snapped up whatever they can buy. As OpenAI and its rivals throw billions of dollars at hardware makers, commodity chip vendors are prioritizing them over consumers. That means fewer components for you. And have you heard about tariffs?Intel has already told analysts that it’s de-prioritizing its low-end, cheap PC microprocessors and predicting shortages in 2026. DRAM? Forget about it: DDR4 memory is being phased out, and DDR5 price trends are almost going vertical. SSDs are less affected, but still under pressure. Same for GPUs. Weirdly, laptop buyers might see better deals than normal, if only because vendors want to offload inventory.Black Friday, indeed.So what can you do? Each year, PCWorld digs through tech deals, with an eye towards bringing you the best tech deals on laptops, Chromebooks, SSDs and storage, components, and more. This year, we wanted to know where you could expect savings, and where you might have to squint hard to find a good deal. Some companies were happy to go on the record. Most weren’t, or declined to comment. Because they’re still trying to figure out what to offer. “Black Friday” obviously isn’t just a day. It’s a season.Bundling is going to be a lever vendors will use to “discount” an item without really discounting it.FoundryHow to shop Black Friday like a proPCWorld.com is publishing deal roundups for all your favorite components. But before even talking about where you’ll be able to find deals, there are two Black Friday shopping strategies that you’ll want to know for 2025: the power of bundles, and of buying used.Bundles: In years past, you may have seen an e-tailer toss you a free gift card for buying something. In 2025, look for this strategy to reach another level. Ryan Marinelli, the principal technical specialist for PCPartPicker.com, said that he’s already seen a motherboard, 32GB of RAM, and a Steam card bundled together: a hard-to-find, expensive component bundled with something more easily accessible. Software and gift cards are always available, and they might be used more frequently during the 2025 holiday season.Used: You’re probably familiar with eBay and possibly Amazon’s Renewed program. But Amanda Stefan, the chief executive of used-component marketplace Jawa.gg, told PCWorld.com: “Ever since the word ‘tariff’ was uttered, our business has tripled year over year.”“Typically, you’ll save 20 to 40 percent off of buying something new,” Stefan added. (Read more in our Jawa.gg profile.)Unfortunately, retailers have begun hiking prices in September and October, only to then drop them in November and December to create “sales.” The main culprits have been tablets and phones, according to a study performed by KnownHost throughout 2023 and 2024. Laptops, fortunately, weren’t as susceptible.Still, retailers and vendors are hiking more prices early to create the illusion of a sale during Black Friday, from 16 products out of the 60 KnownHost tracked in 2023, to 19 out of 60 in 2024. The good news? More lowered their prices for Black Friday, from 5 to 22 across 2023 to 2024.We asked Amazon, Newegg, and Best Buy for comment. All declined.Laptops and Chromebooks: Yes, deals are a possibilityThe word of the year for 2025 has been “tariff.” Though tariffs roiled the laptop market in March and April, President Trump seems to have backed off a trade war that few welcomed. On Nov. 10, Trump met Chinese president Xi Jinping, who agreed to reduce exports of chemicals that can be used to make fentanyl, the rationale that Trump has used to levy tariffs against China. However, Trump’s powers to apply tariffs — under debate in the Supreme Court — might still remain, but with limitations. All that means is, well, who knows? PC and component makers did everything they could to avoid tariffs, drop-shipping them to other countries, migrating production facilities, and selling systems that had already cleared U.S. customs. Given that retailers and e-tailers aren’t disclosing which systems have been tariffed, there’s no point in trying to play detective as to which laptops and PCs will be hurt by tariffs — just look for the best prices.The problem is that component shortages are biting hard, and consumers might not be aware of how hard. “I think if you’re considering a PC, I’d move [quickly] if you find the deals,” said Ryan Marinelli, a principal technical specialist for PCPartPicker. “And I wouldn’t wait to see whether on Black Friday there is going to be the best deal.”Component prices on GPUs, memory, and more will affect the prices of PCs more than anything else.Joel Lee / IDG“If you have the money and you’re ready, I I would purchase the system instead of waiting and holding out to save $10 because you never know what it’s going to be tomorrow, especially with RAM and storage,” Marinelli said.With that said, analysts are making some early guesses about where laptop and Chromebook deals could arrive.“It’s important to note that different vendors will be impacted at different rates based on their scale,” Tom Mainelli, who heads IDC’s Device and Consumer Research Group, said in an email. “For example, PC vendors such as Dell and Lenovo should be able to achieve better pricing even in a constrained market than some of their competitors, since they also purchase large volumes of these components for their infrastructure businesses. Similarly, Apple—which purchases huge volumes across its Mac, iPad, and iPhone lines—should enjoy better pricing than most.”There are a few forces at work: First, the holidays are the time-honored opportunity to clear out older inventory. IDC analyst Ryan Reith, the group vice president with IDC’s Device Trackers, had said in October that vendors are going to have to decide between refreshing a PC lineup with components that could run the risk of tariffs, and holding on to outdated inventory.“The supply side of the PC industry is doing its best to navigate the unknowns as no one wants to sit on their heels and potentially miss an opportunity, but at the same time it is very risky carrying inventory which is a possibility given the strong first half sell-in,” Reith wrote. “Price increases will likely be dispersed over time and geography depending on vendor strategy which can potentially lead to some attractive promotions as a way to clear inventory backups,” Reith added. But Mainelli warned that shoppers might see better deals at higher price points, and not just budget PCs being slashed to the bone.Unfortunately, sales on budget laptops might be harder to find during Black Friday 2025.Dominik Tomaszewski / Foundry“I’d suggest that price increases won’t be universal across vendors,” Mainelli said. “It is also worth noting that price increases (or less dramatic sale prices) are more likely to appear at the low- and mid-range PC price points than the premium-priced categories, where all vendors have more potential margin to absorb the higher bill of materials cost.”In part, that’s because Intel has said publicly that it’s willing to sacrifice a bit of its low-end PC processor sales in favor of higher-margin server parts. Simple economics says that will help push prices higher.“Intel is prioritizing server chips and mobile over desktop,” said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research, in an email. “This will not have a significant impact on the holiday season, but OEMs will push more AMD and possibly Qualcomm [PCs].”It might not affect pricing or holiday sales, but PC vendors are also worrying about how much you’ll be willing to buy this holiday. The National Retail Federation’s 2025 survey found that consumers plan to spend $628 on holiday gifts this year, down from $641 in 2024. About 22 percent of those surveyed are asking for electronics. But that survey was taken in October, before the end of the government shutdown potentially threatened Affordable Care Act healthcare subsidies, and before shortages of air traffic controllers cut the number of available flights and delayed others.Memory: The DRAM apocalypse is nighNormally, we would advise against panic buying. But right now, “panic” is close to what the market is experiencing where DRAM is concerned. “I think if you’re considering building a PC, you should really consider getting RAM soon,” Marinelli said. “I don’t see any relief in sight.”DRAM is quickly rising in price, and that’s the biggest story for the tail end of 2025.Teamgroup / AmazonAs you can see in the graphic below, DDR5 memory prices have essentially doubled in two months, according to PCPartPicker’s pricing graph at press time. (Price data includes promos, coupons, rebates, and shipping costs when available, the site says.)Although the effects are being felt now, the trouble started months ago. According to Jim Handy, an analyst with Objective Analysis and author of The Memory Guy blog, ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) entered the DDR4 memory market, sponsored by the Chinese government. A price increase of this much, this fast is almost unheard of.PCPartPicker.com“They made their initial product launch about a year ago with DDR4 parts, and all of the major DRAM manufacturers really didn’t like where CXMT was taking prices,” Handy said. “They were basically trying to win customers away from these major vendors by lowering the price. And so the major vendors said, we don’t have to deal with this. You know, we can sell DDR5. We want to, so we’re going to stop making DDR4. So they did.”Unfortunately, there was another wrinkle. “CXMT grew the company over the past year based on that, and then around December of last year, the Chinese government said, well, you guys really need to shift over to DDR5, since you have a design that you’ve proven to work and we don’t want you to make any more,” Handy said. “DDR4 prices went just absolutely sky high. They ended up becoming more expensive than DDR5.”And then another. “Meanwhile, because of AI, then the DRAM business started becoming constrained, just because everybody was making these special [high-bandwidth memory] chips for AI,” Handy added. “And so they started shifting their production away from DDR5 into the AI. And so, you know, between DDR4 going away and becoming really scarce, and DDR5 going into a shortage, DRAM is becoming pretty scarce.”For holiday shoppers, this is a nightmare. Memory manufacturers, however, are ecstatic. DRAM is an absolute commodity, subject to supply and demand. TrendForce reports DRAM profit margins are at their highest in 30 years, over 70 percent. SK Hynix, a top DRAM maker, is sold out of everything — DRAM for servers, PCs, and mobile devices — throughout 2026. Samsung is refusing to sell DRAM on the short-term (or spot) market. And DDR5 prices are expected to climb throughout the first half of 2026, TrendForce reports.PCPartPicker.comWhile the rate at which DDR4 pricing has increased has been more gradual than DDR5, the actual prices have been about DDR5 levels: According to PCPartPicker, the average price of 64GB (2x32GB) of DDR4-3600 DRAM is roughly $380 on PCPartPicker’s pricing trends graphic while the same amount of DDR5-5600 is right about $400.“Through 2026 I’ve talked a little bit with system integrators, and they are terrified,” Marinelli said “They’re having contracts for memory canceled, and the companies don’t care, because AI will pay whatever they ask. I don’t know where the relief comes from, and I don’t know when.”We asked Micron (Crucial) and Kingston for comment. Neither responded.SSD storage: Calm before the storm?SSDs are just big collections of NAND memory chips and some associated logic, and prices have remained relatively flat for now. “With SSDs, they look a whole lot nicer,” Handy said. “Prices will be a bit higher than they were last month, but I wouldn’t expect them to be considerably higher.”“Steer your readers towards buying SSDs, because that’s where they’re going to get a better deal,” Handy added.SSD prices are stable for now, but for how long?Jon Martindale / FoundryThe problem? That’s not going to last long, and the question may be whether SSD makers participate in Black Friday sales, or hold inventory back for when prices inevitably rise.Rise? Yes, inevitably. Hyperscalers are buying up flash, too, and a report by TrendForce says that NAND supply will be constrained throughout 2026. Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia, and Micron have jointly scaled back NAND flash production in the second half of 2025, the report says, and Samsung is considering raising NAND prices by 20 to 30 percent.That’s started to be reflected in the marketplace. PCPartPicker’s pricing graphic for 1TB M.2 NVMe SSDs remained flat for all of 2025, but it’s starting to tick upwards. Prices for 2TB and 4TB M.2 SSDs are as well.PCPartPicker’s pricing trends indicate that there could be trouble ahead for the flash market.PCPartPicker.com“The rumors and kind of the news I’ve been seeing is less positive, but nowhere near to the extent of the RAM situation,” PCPartPicker’s Marinelli said. “I would expect to see storage prices increase, but not anywhere near the same rate.”IDC’s Mainelli said that the component shortages will have a bigger impact than tariffs. “I suggest that the current memory and storage shortage is likely to have a larger impact as we enter the first quarter of 2026,” he wrote in an email.GPUs: ‘In a pretty good spot’With all of the concern about the prices of Nvidia’s GeForce 5000 family (both the MSRP prices as well as shortages that drove prices up), the price of graphics cards returned to earth in August, and, by and large, stayed there. With Nvidia’s awaited “Super” series of GPUs either delayed until after the holidays or canceled altogether, your best bet might be to buy what’s available now.Thiago Trevisan/IDG“I think GPUs, surprisingly or not, are in a pretty good spot right now, all things considered,” PCPartPicker’s Marinelli said, adding that he expected to see some deals on graphics cards for consumer purchases.In his own research, Marinelli said that he’s seen evidence that bundling may be the way toward discounts, such as combining a graphics card with a Steam gift card.PCPartPicker.comAll in all, that’s good news. In early 2025, it seemed like you’d never find a good GPU deal ever again. CPUs: Low-end discounts disappearing?The PC processor market has been relatively stable, but Intel’s business woes have churned the low end of the market. PC enthusiasts never really accepted Intel’s 15th-gen Core chips, Arrow Lake, and Intel admitted in April that customers preferred Intel’s older “Raptor Lake” chip instead. Intel chief financial officer David Zinsner obliquely reiterated that in the company’s third-quarter earnings report when he reported that Intel was “tight on Intel 10 and 7,” the manufacturing processes upon which Intel made its 11th-gen “Tiger Lake” Core chips as well as its “Alder Lake” and “Raptor Lake” CPUs. “And so as we get more demand, we’re constrained,” Zinsner said. “In some ways, we’re living off of inventory. We’re also trying to kind of demand shape to get customers to other products. “With customers preferring older Intel CPUs, that could mean the supply drying up and low-end prices on the rise.Thomas Ryan/IDG“Although as we said, we are yielding a bit of the small-core market and client to fulfill customer requirements more broadly on the client space and more specifically in the server space,” Zinsner added.In the real-world, “demand shaping” probably means that Intel might discount some of its newer chips to make them financially more attractive — Black Friday sales, basically. But Intel has only so many manufacturing resources, and Intel’s fragile balance sheet means that the company is making fewer low-end, cheaper “small core” chips and prioritizing servers where it can make more money. And that probably means fewer sales of cheap PCs.We can see that in terms of rising prices on cheaper, older Intel processors.PCPartPicker.comMeanwhile, prices of AMD’s desktop processors, which continue to gain share against Intel, continue to hold steady.Don’t wait!We’ve been essentially taught by retailers that the best deals of the year occur on Black Friday. But the lesson you should take away is to reject your programming: If the deal’s there, take it. The KnownHost product survey also revealed a hidden gotcha: Some products “skip” Black Friday altogether, offering no discounts at all.PCWorld has been monitoring deals for years at this point, and we’ll continue to highlight the best deals we see on a daily basis. In 2025 — with a backdrop of tariffs and component shortages — our advice is, if you see a great deal, grab it.Related contentBlack Friday Deals & Buying AdviceBest laptops 2025: Premium, budget, gaming, 2-in-1, and moreBest Chromebooks 2025: Top picks for work, school, and moreBest SSDs: From SATA to PCIe 5.0, from budget to premium
For its 2026 postage stamps, the U.S. Postal Service is going colorful and graphic.USPS gave a first look at some of the stamps set to be released next year, including the latest edition of its Love stamp, stamps commemorating the 250th anniversary of the U.S., and stamps depicting figures including a boxer, a martial artist and actor, and a pair of published poets. The stamps will be released on a rolling basis beginning in January and available at Post Office locations and online.“This early preview of our 2026 stamp program underscores the Postal Service’s commitment to celebrating the artistry and storytelling that make stamps so special,” Stamp Services director Lisa Bobb-Semple said in a statement. “Each stamp is a small work of art — an entryway into a larger story that connects people, places and moments in history.”[Image: USPS]Many of the stamps are bright or use typography in bold or creative ways. The 2026 Love stamps are a series of four illustrations of stylized red, white, and blue birds by illustrator James Yang that were inspired by midcentury U.S. design and Japanese children’s book illustrations, according to USPS.[Image: USPS]Stamps for Muhammad Ali designed by USPS art director Antonio Alcalá show an Associated Press photo of the boxer with his gloves up and his last name in big, all-caps, sans-serif type in red and black that evokes a boxing match promotional poster. [Image: USPS]A painting of Bruce Lee by artist Kam Mak shows the martial artist and actor against a yellow brushstroke background as he kicks the words “USA FOREVER” and “BRUCE LEE,” which were cleverly angled to look like he snapped them in two.[Image: USPS]For its “Figures of the American Revolution” stamps, multiple artists depict 25 people, from household name Founding Fathers like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to lesser known figures as Deborah Sampson, the only woman to earn a military pension in the war after she dressed up like a man called Robert. The diverse selection of people were chosen to represent the Revolution as a collective effort, USPS says.“It’s unusual to design a pane of stamps featuring 25 different portraits” USPS art director Ethel Kessler said in a statement. “But that number felt essential. How else could you begin to tell the story of the Revolution’s complexity with fewer?”[Image: USPS]The typographic “Declaration of Independence” stamp also marks next year’s anniversary with “1776” written out in feather quill pens by typographer Juan Carlos Pagan.[Image: USPS]The “Lowriders” stamps pay homage to customized lowrider cars with photos by Philip Gordon and Humberto “Beto” Mendoza and gothic-style type paired with flourishes borrowed from lowrider paint jobs. Photographer David Schwartz contributed images for the “Route 66” stamps, which celebrate the 100th anniversary of the iconic highway.[Image: USPS]Other forthcoming stamps including “International Peace” showing an origami crane by Peace Crane Project founder Sue DiCicco, “Bald Eagle: Hatchling to Adult,” a pane of five stamps depicting the life of America’s national bird, and a stamp commemorating Colorado’s 150th anniversary.[Image: USPS]Writer Phillis Wheatley, who published what’s believed to be first book by a woman of African descent in the American Colonies, appears on the 49th Black Heritage stamp by artist Kerry James Marshall. Sarah Orne Jewett, a novelist and poet, appears on the 35th Literary Arts series by artist Mark Summers. Next year’s Lunar New Year stamp shows a horse mask by Sally Andersen-Bruce.[Image: USPS]USPS says more stamp announcements are forthcoming, and it’s also planning to rerelease an old stamp next year as part of its Stamp Encore Contest.[Image: USPS]
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