Lyndon Hayes - Olympic Games Royal Mail Stamp Design

Issue date – 27th July 2011

It started as the most ambitious stamp commission since the Millennium series, now the final set of London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games stamps is to be issued.




As part of the countdown to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Royal Mail commissioned 30 artist and image makers to take part in this three-year project.

This would see the creation of 30 stamps to mark the 30th Olympiad and London 2012 Paralympic Games, with each stamp championing an Olympic or Paralympic sport, issued in three sets of ten stamps in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The third and final set in this exciting series, subtitled ‘Get Ready for 2012’, contains a new set of ten dynamic images issued exactly one year before the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The stamps are printed in two sheets, each bearing se-tenant strips of five 1st Class stamps.