🏆 Judge’s Choice - Maurice Cherry
Product
Agency - Journey Group
Client - United States Postal Service
The objective was to create a stamp pane to mark the 150th anniversary of the completion of the transcontinental railroad, when in 1869, at the "Golden Pike Ceremony" two rail lines, one from the west and one from the east, were joined in what is considered one of the greatest achievements of the 19th century. The designer could not use the likenesses of people from the actual event so he decided to reflect the esthetic of the time with painterly illustrations of the two locomotives using traditional, 19th-century oil painting techniques. The typographer built the art in the center stamp and most of the text for the pane from scratch, using century-old ephemera as art reference and his custom filigree. The stamp designs were widely praised. In less than nine months more than 85% of the stamps were sold.
Art Director: Greg Breeding
Designer: Greg Breeding
Artist: Michael J. Deas
Typographer: Kevin Cantrell
Creative Director: William J. Gicker