In the year of the Olympic Games and as part of the programme accompanying the Philatelic Exhibition SLOVOLYMPFILA 2008 focusing on sports, the POFIS department of the Slovak Postal Service organised a children’s stamp design competition ‘Christmas 2009 - Winter Motif’. Winter sports – the main theme of this year’s competition – are something most of us associate with the active use of free time during the Christmas holidays. The aim of the competition was to get the children aged 7–13 actively involved in the process of stamp production in Slovakia, and to identify creative graphic designs thanks to the spontaneous...