Saturday, 24 May 2008

Video Postage Stamp

video postage stamp

Take a good look at the approximately 3-second sport clip shown to the left. It shows three different perspectives of the winning soccer (football) goal scored by Andreas "Andi" Herzog for Austria in 1997. This goal provided a sense of strong national pride for Austria as their team defeated Sweden 1-0 in route to their 1998 World Cup appearance. The Austria postal administration has immortalized this television broadcast clip on a postage stamp issued May, 2008 in honor of the upcoming Union of European Football Associations' 2008 series. Using a particular technology called lenticular printing, Austria Post has managed to put the moving image of this goal onto a postage stamp.


The particular technology used is the lenticular printing.


Read more details here


(via the presurfer)

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