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Rosmarie Tissi, Switzerland 100 years Union of Swiss Farmers (1897-1997) 100 years Union of Swiss Cities (1897-1997) Client: Generalmanagement PTT, Bern, Department of stamps There had to be a connection between the two stamps. I have chosen a typical Swiss agricultural landscape with various fields and trees, and for the Union of Swiss Cities stamp, I used a piece of a city plan. Instead of the street names there are the titles of the stamp in the three main Swiss languages; German, French and Italian.
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Bruno Oldani, Norway 100th Anniversary of the Industrial Pioneers: Kristian Birkeland and Sam Eyde, 1967 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service Kristian Birkeland and Sam Eyde were the founders of one of Norway’s biggest and most important industrial companies "Norsk Hydro". These stamps were made in 1967 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this company.
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Bruno Oldani, Norway The Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer, 1994 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service These stamps were made for the 1994 Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. The inspiration for the design is the variety of National Flags in the opening ceremony. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway Paralympics Lillehammer, 1994 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service These stamps were made for the 1994 Paralympic Winter Games in Lillehammer, Norway. They show disabled atlethes in action. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway The 100th Anniversary of Forliksrådet, Judicial council Client: The Norwegian Postal Service Forliksradet is a judicial council that solves conflicts and disagreements for people and organizations. The idea was to show the process from disagreement to agreement. The stamps were made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of this council. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway Christmas stamps, 1996 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service An attempt to avoid the usual Christmas trees and Santa Clauses, as well as religious motives. The stamps show a traditional Norwegian folklore decor. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway The 100th Anniversary of Film, 1996 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service Filmstrips showing a selection of national and international heroes from the silver screen. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway The Children’s Stamp Collector Club, 1997 Client: The Norwegian Postal Service Stamps made especially for The Children's Stamp Collector Club, focusing on the joy, excitement and curiosity in the microscopic graphic of a stamp. |
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Bruno Oldani, Norway Save Energy Campaign for PTT Switzerland, 1997 Client: PPT Switzerland These stamps show the four elements: air, fire, water and earth. They were made for an Energy campaign in Switzerland. |
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Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd 100th Anniversary of Rotary International, 2005 Client: Finland Post The 100th Anniversary of Rotary International was notified in Finland by publishing a stamp to celebrate the centennial. Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. The golden gearwheels that form the borderless map of earth shows how "good" is transported from one part of the world to another.
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Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics Helsinki, 2005 Client: Finland Post The last deciding milliseconds of 100 meters dash at the finish line materializes the hard labor and training, excitement, exhilaration, even disappointment... Strong emotions came to play at the old Olympiastadion when the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics were held in Helsinki in the year 2005. Photographers: Ville Aho / Reefline Ltd, Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd
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Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd 400th Anniversary of City of Vaasa, 2006 Client: Finland Post The city of Vaasa is turned 400 years old in the year 2006, being one of the oldest cities in Finland. The closeness to sea and the archipelago are features that are constantly present at this old harbor city. The abstract aerial view of Vaasa coastline is meaningful for the local inhabitants, but the stamp works as an archetype of Finnish landscape.
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Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd Finnish Modernists – Sculptor Kari Huhtamo, 2005 Client: Finland Post This stamp was 1st in the series of Finnish Modernists. The sculptor Kari Huhtamo is a master in being able to transform the lifeless material of stainless steel into geometric abstraction of nature's forms. The stamp is also an innovative product of Post of Finland; a layman can have a stamp of his own printed on a blank stamp sheet containing the pre-designed price and nationality information. The perforation at the bottom containing word "FINLAND" in mores, letters visible only with fluorescent light. Photographer: Jussi Tiainen
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Pekka Piippo / Hahmo Design Ltd Finnish Aviation, 2003 Client: Finland Post Finns have been traveling by planes since the beginning of the last century. The evolution of planes has made far away locations accessible to layman. Finnish national flag, sky and clouds would have easily narrowed the set of colors to just blue and white. The idea behind the bright color scheme was to emphasize the new cultures of far away countries people would be subject to by travel. The 1:3000 scale outlines of plane show the development in aeronautics during the decades, the abstract curve wire frame view of globe with expanding white circle showing the increase in range.
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Ben Bos Inter-parliamentary Union and 25 years United Nations, 1970 Client: PTT, Royal Dutch Post 25 years UNO was a kind of mixture of English and Dutch. In the same year an important Dutch weekly called ‘Vrij Nederland’ (known as VN) also celebrated its 25 years. Reason for me to choose for the English text ‘UNO’. I had a symbolic platform of white Perspex made and mounted a billiard ball on it, on which I projected the globe. The Inter-parliamentary Union met in the Hague’s Peace Palace. Very few Dutchmen ever understood what it was about. I chose for a rather abstract design.
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Ben Bos Holland, country of international transporters, 1980 Client: PTT, Royal Dutch Post Having the largest harbor in the world (Rotterdam) and being the delta country of Western Europe’s big rivers, the Netherlands are important logistic transporters throughout this strong economic area. I selected the stencil typeface for its frequent use on crates and other large forms of packaging. The black and white photography got my ‘line color separations’, which was a novelty in Dutch stamp design. |
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Ben Bos1994 Series for the International Stamp collectors fair Fepapost, 1994 Client: PTT, Royal Dutch Post. The Hague 1994, a world fair for stamp collectors, I was invited to design the event identity and the special stamp series. I cooperated with our national Bird Protection Board, which wanted me to depict rare and endangered species that live permanently in or annually ‘visit’ the Netherlands on their way to other climates. |
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Marco Trüeb, Switzerland 150th anniversary of the ETH Zurich, 2005 Client: Swiss Post Swiss Post is commemorating the lengthy history of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with a special stamp. The 85-centime stamp shows the facade of the main ETH Zurich building, which was designed by the famous 19th-century architect Gottfried Semper (1803-1879). Swiss Post previously issued a special stamp (in the Pro Patria series) to mark the ETH's centenary. Swiss Post can look back on a 162- year history of issuing stamps. Following Great Britain, Switzerland was only the second country to introduce stamps the Zurich 4 and Zurich 6 stamps on 1 March 1843. |
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Kari Piippo, Finland EU stamp, 1995 Client: Finland Post Finland joined the European Union, 1995. The stamp was published in the same year. A star has fell to become a part of the symbol of the European Union. This was my way to say "let us wish for the best"! |
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Kari Piippo, Finland Mail Order 100 years in Finland, 1997 Client: Finland Post What is common to all those things that have been sold by mail order during the past hundred years? The answer is simple: a packing box. |
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Kari Piippo, Finland Finnish design, 1997 + Aalto Client: Finland Post In the stamp series were presented some of Finnish design classics: Alvar Aalto´s Aalto vase, Kaj Franck´s Kilta tableware, Bertel Gardberg´s Carelia cutlery, Yrjö Kukkapuro´s Karuselli chair, Annika Rimala´s Tasaraita T-shirt and Timo Sapaneva´s Cast-iron pot. |
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João Machado Timor Lorosae, 2000 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal Timor’s ancient past is not easily determined and can only be glimpsed through its archaeology, ethnology and compared linguistics. Yet over the centuries the Timorese have built a unique identity, constantly rising up against anything that held up the free course of their history and culture. Today, after the vortex that devastated infrastructures, broke up the social fabric and destroyed services and public administration. The Timorese, on their way to independence under the auspices of the United Nations, are beginning to reconstruct their future and prepare themselves to take over governing their country at the end of the UNTAET (United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor) mandate. They do not have an easy path ahead of them over the next few years. But once they have overcome the many stumbling blocks and ensured wise distribution of international aid, they will be able to live in a democratic Timor Lorosae, a Timor Lorosae with a sustainable and efficient public sector, a bureaucratic machine reduced to the minimum, public investment concentrated on human development and able to develop close relations with the countries of the Asian Pacific Region of which it is part, as declared by Xanana Gusmão at the Donor’s Conference in Tokyo in December 1999. |
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João Machado 8th Iberian-American Summit, 1998 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal The Iberian-American Summit is a political and cultural organisation of understanding and dialogue between two regions that share a historical, cultural and common language origin heritage. This promotes and deepens the relationship of their members through political initiatives and co-operation projects in the realm of mutual interests. This privileged relationship has its formal expression in an annual meeting held since 1991, the State Leaders and Governors Summits of the 21 Iberian-American countries. The 8th Iberian-American Summit of State Leaders and Governors will be held in Oporto on 17th and 18th October and its subject will be “The Challenges of Globalisation and Regional Integration”. This is a topical theme which concerns all participant countries and that will certainly give occasion to a dynamic and innovative debate. This theme was chosen because of the need to analyse and debate the globalisation and regional integration. These processes are increasingly affecting the international relationships as well as the political, economical and social systems of the Iberian-American Countries. |
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João Machado Greetings, 2001 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal Happy Birthday! Great news! Congratulations! Today’s a special day! I wish you were here! Missing you! These are just some of the expressions we use to share moments of happiness or tell someone we miss them. The stamps in this issue speak for themselves. They are for those special occasions when we want to tell someone we can’t be with just how we wish we could be with them. They are greetings that will be remembered forever: The written message does not fade; it can be read and re-read, to help you re-live feelings, emotions and shared moments – even years later. In other words, these stamps are for very special letters. |
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João Machado Europe 2004 Issue – Holidays, 2004 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal Bordered by the sea, Portugal offers a wide and diverse range of sunny beaches boasting white, fine sand. From north to south, bordered by dunes or nestling in cosy bays or between cliffs and towering rocks, each Potruguese beach has its own special character and charm. But Nature has not just favoured the mainland. With its mild climate all year round, Madeira was first sought by the European aristocracy long before it became a haunt for people from all walks of life, drawn by the variety and colour of its many plants and flowers. The Azores, which could be the “Enchanted Isles”, never rediscovered, written of by authors of ancient times, are visited by increasing numbers of Portuguese and foreign tourists, enchanted by the archipelago’s biodiversity with its volcanic mountains on land and whales and sperm whales at sea. |
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João Machado International Year of Deserts and Desertification, 2006 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal Desertification is land degradation in arid areas resulting from both natural and human causes and is one of the major, if not the major cause of poverty in the world. For this reason, the United Nations General Assembly declared 2006 the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. In mainland Portugal, over one third of the territory is liable to desertification. Depopulation, economic and social decline, abandonment of farming and forest fires are the expression of desertification (not necessarily direct consequences, or exclusive causes). Awareness of the dimension of the problem in Portugal and in the world is the only way to combat it. It is possible to prevent desertification; it must be reduced. We need the means, but more especially, we need a change in attitude. The people in the affected regions have the same rights as those in other regions – and far greater difficulties. Out of civic duty, out of human solidarity, it is vital that we act! |
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João Machado Water, 2006 Client: CTT Correios de Portugal Water, with air, earth and fire, was held by ancient civilisations to be one of the fundamental elements composing matter. It is in fact the most abundant constituent of all living organisms. The human body is composed of 70 to 75 per cent water – curiously, the same proportion as water to land on the earth’s surface. Man’s dependency on this primordial substance is manifest in all our everyday gestures from morning to night. In fact, water is not just landscape or a consumer good: a resource fed by the never-ending cycle of rainfall-evaporation-rainfall, it sustains the Earth’s plant cover and is crucial to all types of agriculture. Used as a source of renewable energy, it is also an ideal environment for leisure and water sports. However, none so blind as they who will not see, man wastes and pollutes it unreservedly as if it were an inexhaustible wealth, which is far from the truth. |
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David Gentleman, UK The Oak tree, 1973 Client: The Royal mail The oak tree is both a beautiful thing in itself and a traditional national symbol of strength and usefulness. It is slow-growing and was used for centuries in the construction of battleships, in making furniture, and in wood-framed buildings: its strength made these structures solid and durable, and the timbers of its twisting branches were used for making the awkward corners in roofs and between the decks of the ships. I drew this ancient oak in a forest near London; I had to choose one with a gap in its outline where the Queen’s head could go. 90 words |
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David Gentleman, UK Concorde, 1969 Client: The Royal mail The design for the Anglo-French supersonic airliner Concorde is printed in black and two tones of blue. It is very simple, superimposing silhouettes of the nose and the tail of the plane and omitting any detail. As a boy during the 1939-45 war, I had been fascinated by planes and could recognize most of them by their black-and-white silhouettes printed in magazines and booklets. Before designing the Concorde stamp had already used the theme of overprinted silhouettes in a set of stamps commemorating the aerial ‘Battle of Britain’ in 1940. |
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David Gentleman, UK Millennium, 2000 Client: The Royal mail This block of four designs was issued for the Millennium. It symbolizes the precise moment separating the previous millennium from the new one - the instant when 2000 became 2001. It also suggests the endless continuity of time, and how we measure it into years, days, minutes, seconds - and millennia - and how all of these are related to the daily rotation of the earth and its annual orbit round the sun. Working out a way of reducing these elusive abstract ideas to the size of a stamp, and making it intelligible, took me a long time. 95 words |
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David Gentleman, UK The Twelve Days of Christmas, 1977 Client: The Royal mail ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’ is a traditional carol, a children's song sung at Christmas. Like the song, the six stamps list all the presents sent during the twelve days of the festival . Each verse is longer than the one before because the previous ones are always repeated. The carol begins 'On the first day of Christmas my true love sent to me A partridge in a pear tree'. The third verse runs: 'On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me Three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree'. There are twelve verses in all and six stamps: one 9p and five se tenant 7p stamps. I engraved the pictures on blocks of boxwood and tinted the proofs in watercolor. |
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David Gentleman, UK Rulers of Great Britain, 1965 Client: The Royal mail This se tenant sheet of Rulers of Great Britain is from ‘the Gentleman Album’ of 100 stamps which I was commissioned to design for the Post Office in 1965. The purpose of the Album was to explore how British stamps could become more interesting if the traditional restrictions on subject matter were abandoned. This suggestion was accepted. I also suggested leaving out the Queen’s head, which ever since the Penny Black (the world’s first stamp) had been used to identify Britain as the issuing country. This proposal was not accepted, but a smaller silhouette of the Queen was adopted and has been used ever since. |
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Finn Nygaard, DenmarkEUROPE – Gastronomy, 2005 Client: Post Denmark In 2005, the European postal administrations selected the theme of “Gastronomy” for the joint stamp issue. The illustrations for the two Danish stamps are by the graphic artist Finn Nygaard. Post Danmark and Finn Nygaard have decided to take a slightly informal approach to the subject of gastronomy. Gastronomy originally meant “knowledge of the stomach”, but the meaning has shifted towards the art of eating and drinking well. As the Gastronomy theme will be featured on the stamps of all the countries of Europe, you will be able to undertake a culinary journey across the whole continent – and it certainly won’t be boring. Although the Danish hot dog originally comes from the USA, it has undergone a transformation in Denmark over the years and has developed into a distinctive Danish variety and specialty. Many tourists visiting Denmark have already heard about the Danish hot dog stands, and want to try them out. Some are pleasantly surprised and sample the entire menu before traveling home again, while others throw up their hands in horror and declare it blasphemy to pronounce the words hot dog stand and gastronomy in the same sentence. But the number of hot dog stands in Denmark bears witness to the fact that many people still enjoy snacks at these tiny restaurants of the street. Some of our finest food ingredients are found in the seas around Denmark – our fish. The fish on the DKK 9.50 stamp is a “fusion fish” – i.e. no particular species – which symbolizes fish dishes. Fish was once regarded as the diet of poor people, but in recent years, it has once again become ‘in’ to eat fish. With fish, too, we have become bolder over the years. We now buy a broader range of different kinds of fi sh, and are happy to try cooking exotic fish dishes.
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Finn Nygaard, Denmark The Galathea 3 expedition, 2007 Client: Post Denmark Two stamps are being issued on the occasion of the expedition of Galathea 3, which is sailing around the world to create a foundation for Danish scientific research projects. The stamps are designed by Finn Nygaard and engraved by Martin Mörck, and were produced in a combination of intaglio and offset. In August 2006 the Danish inspection vessel ‘Vædderen’ (The Ram) embarked on a voyage that is 34,000 nautical miles long and take the ship around the globe. The Galathea 3 expedition is an ambitious undertaking that combines scientific research with a public information initiative. Several important research projects are the basis for the expedition. Scientists from several Danish universities and research institutions as well as a few foreign universities carry out the projects. Most of the projects fall within the natural sciences but research projects from other fields related to the specific destinations are also onboard. Both land based and oceanographic research projects are part of the expedition. Among the different topics the scientists will investigate are biological processes, changes in climate, and earthquakes. Galathea 3’s purpose is not only to successfully carry out the planned research projects but also to strengthen Denmark’s position in the many international networks Danish scientists participate in. Furthermore, the idea is to use the public awareness of the expedition to boost the recruitment of future scientists. |
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Pekka Loiri, Finland Christmas, 1995 Client: The Finnish Post In the year 1995 a Finnish couple won the European championship in Figure Skating. I had had the order to make the design of that year’s Finnish Christmas stamp. That is how I wanted to make honor for them and that sport art. I also wanted to be not so serious. The Whole includes the stamp, the First day cover and the First day Postmark. The stamp is offset printed in the printing house of the Finnish National Bank. |
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Pekka Loiri, Finland The Ice Hockey World Championship Games in Finland, 1997Client: The Finnish Post I wanted to describe all the countries that took part in those Championship games in one figure, so I decided to dress one player with each national colors. The Whole includes the Stamp the First day cover and the First day Postmark The stamp is offset printed In the Printing House of The Finnish National Bank |
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Pekka Loiri, Finland The 200 years anniversary of Elias Lönnrot. The Father of Kalevala, 2002Client: The Finnish Post V Elias Lönnrot vas a Finnish Scientist, biologist, journalist and folklorist. In the stamp the plant is for the biologist, the printed text in two stamps is the beginning and the end of the Kalevala, the Finnish National Epos. Two eagles are the symbols of wisdom and the capability of seeing and understanding. The Whole includes the stamp gathering, the First day cover and the First day Postmark. The Stamp is offset printed in Holland in Joh. Enschede Stamp print. |
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Pekka Loiri, Finland The Great Finnish sponsors of arts and sciences, 2003Client: The Finnish Post All these people had very poor childhood. They all came from indigent, poor families. I wanted to make their portraits with - mainly on black & white adding only small amount of colors on each one, to describe the generosity and modesty. The Whole includes the stamp gathering, the First day cover and the First day Postmark The Stamp is offset printed in Holland in Joh. Enschede Stamp print. |
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Wim Crouwel, The Netherlands The numeral series, 1976 Client: Dutch PTT The regular numeral stamps are issued for all postal mail under the weight of a letter (20 grams). (All stamps over 80 cents have the Queen's head). This stamp is the result of winning a closed contest among three designers. I designed the typeface for this stamp using straight lines and 45 degrees corners. Each denomination (5, 10, 25, 40, 45, 50, 60, 65, and 80 cents) has a different color. In order to create a spatial atmosphere, the background color fades away top down, and the value number reversed. The stamp series has been in use until the Euro came. |
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Wim Crouwel, The Netherlands The Stijl stamps, 1983 Client: Dutch PTT The 'Stijl' stamps have been designed around the two main contributors and founders of this important modernist movement: Piet Mondriaan and Theo van Doesburg. The denomination of 50 cents shows Mondriaan's painting easel with one of his paintings; it is based on a photograph of his studio in Paris in the twenties. The denomination of 65 cents is based on an isometric architectural drawing of Van Doesburg, also from the twenties. The typeface is Helvetica. In both stamps the main colors are red, yellow and blue, the primary colors used by the Stijl artists. |
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University of Applied Arts Vienna Class of Graphic Design, Prof. Fons Hickmann Overprinted Post-stamps, 2004 Competition, Austria Post AG In 2005 the Austrian Postal Authority raised its fees for mailings. In order to use the already printed stamps, 150 million post stamps from the series “Vacation Country Austria” had to be over printed with a new price and brought back into post circulation. For this unique occasion the Austrian Postal Authority announced a competition within the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It was to find out whether the fastidious design solutions for long-term post stamps would appeal to the general public. The attempt was successful. Out of 200 handed in drafts, which were partly accented statements to the traditional Austria- image, 8 ideas were awarded. An assignment for the design of 5 further post stamps soon followed. |
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