Odd Austrian Stamp Design.

Just received this Austrian stamp issued on January 21, 2015.

The name of the country and the value is ingeniously
incorporated in the design and basically it is the whole design.

Call it weird, odd, unique or gimmicky but you have to admit it's different.

At least compared to the thousands of stamps constantly being issued
world wide year after showing the same things.

Scott 2534 ANK 3208

Love it.

It has a 3D eye feel to it.

Oh crap. Where's my antivert? Darn, no refills on my prescription.

Nice touch on the umlauted O.

wow!

Lithograving...I can make out "OSTERREICH"...in the main part of the stamp...what's the rest?
Making my eyes go wonky trying to figure it out.

62 cent

My compliments to Herr Schmidt

The stamp was the result of a stamp design competition
sponsored by Austria Post together with Die Presse newspaper.
The theme was „Und Österreich bewegt sich doch" (And yet Austria does move forward.

Nikolaus Schmidt, a Viennese graphic artist designed
the stamp using the colours of the Austrian flag,
red and white.

Here is a link to a German stamp forum which announces all
Austrian new issues.

http://www.philaseiten.de/cgi-bin/i...15&CP=0&F=20

Wow, stamp designers are finally catching up to the '60s.

Maybe we'll get psychedelic designs in the next few years.

I'm not sure this is the place to ask this question. I am new to the forum and I want to honor the rules about not starting a new post until I have enough posts in other conversations. My question centers on identifying an Austrian stamp (of sorts), so I hope this is the proper place to do that...

I inherited some stamps a few months ago, and I am making my way through them, attempting to identify and catalogue each of them. I ran across an interesting stamp today that I need help with. The picture is below. All I have is the note written ( think) by my deceased grandfather. If you cannot read it, it says: "Artist proof. Austria, 1920-1925. Signed by artist." The stamp design has the name "Joseph Haydn" underneath it. Does anyone have any idea what this is? Where can I go to find out more? Thanks for your help!

Hi Tyler Ted and welcome, don't worry about the forum
or thread.

It is not an issued Austrian stamp but a personal
proof by Georg Wimmer who was an engraver employed
by the Austrian State printer and did engrave many stamps.

Check out this Stamp Engravers blog it explains it all.

http://stampengravers.blogspot.ca/2...mposers.html

Thanks, lithograving! That was a fast response...and very helpful!

Nice use of Steganography in a stamp...

Very Nice!