future - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2016 - 80 Euro Cent

"The future is not written yet. It's what we make of it! "- With this slogan, the creative duo Anna Liska and Andreas Wesle have won this year's Austrian Post AG stamp competition and the daily newspaper" Die Presse ". The subject of this time was "Factor Future": what makes a successful business location Austria in the future? That was the question for the creative applicants to come up with a stamp motif that would be designed in a size of 35 by 35 millimeters graphically, illustratively or typographically. To make it to the finals, less was more: "The message must also work on the critical, small format," says Jörg Pribil, Head of Austrian Post Philately. For graphic designer Erwin K. Bauer (Buerobauer), therefore, the quality of the motifs was "in the graphic reduction". Humor was also in demand: "In times of crisis, it is much easier to look ahead with humor, and especially design ideas with an ironical wink motivate them to do so. Often it was also the new, surprising view of the everyday, which has convinced, "continued Bauer. In addition, the winning design should tell a story in order to arrive well with philatelists and also to withstand a long observation. "Philatelists pay particular attention to the details in the design," says Jörg Pribil.   The winning design by Liska and Wesle shows the sentence quoted at the beginning, which was printed white on white with paint on the stamp. The stamp thus becomes a symbolic white sheet and should call everyone to help shape the future, as the two artists comment. Atelier Liska Wesle works in Vienna and Berlin on graphic and art-direct solutions in the field of art and culture; His clients include the Tanzquartier Wien, the Vienna Secession, the MUMOK Vienna, the Kunstraum Niederösterreich and many more.