design - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2002 - 138 Euro Cent

Emerging from the "Bund Österreichischer Handelsgraphiker" founded in 1927, "Design Austria" today, after 75 years, is the professional, interest and professional representation of graphics designers, illustrators and product designers active in Austria. Service, advice, information, commitment to a realistic job description as well as mediation of the meaning of design for economy and culture are the focus of this professional organization. (www.designaustria.at) With the first stamp the beginners should be informed with the Thonetsessel. The winner of a competition, the Viennese Wolfgang Homola, born in 1966, wanted to address the design process as such and, based on the holes in the stamp's perforation, had a design grid Established (yellow-green dots), which defines the possible positions of the elements on the mark In a second level (dark blue color), the image of an eye was graphically resolved The jury's commentary on the winning design designates the eye as an icon for the theme of Design Austria and On the surface of "design" in general, what at first glance looks like a simple bitmap, turns out, on closer examination, to be a masterfully refined option for state-of-the-art image resolution technology.