About This Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service continues its popular Love series with a stamp in 2021.
The first stamp in the series was issued in 1973. This stamp features a colorful and light-hearted digital illustration.
There are many reasons to say “I love you” and many ways to show you care. A special way to declare your affection, friendship, gratitude, or devotion is to send a card to a loved one or friend. With so many cards to choose from — old classics as well as trendy new designs — it is easy to find one that conveys what you want to say in almost any style you can imagine. And today, there is renewed enthusiasm for handwritten notes that express exactly how you feel. Many cards are intentionally left blank inside so you can personalize your message for any occasion or send a greeting for no particular reason at all.
The playful, graphic lettering on these stamps will add color and whimsy to your mailings, making it clear that thought and care have been lavished on the message, inside and out.
Greg Breeding was art director; Bailey Sullivan created the original art and designed the stamp.
Love 2021 is being issued as a Forever® stamp in panes of 20. This Forever stamp is always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail® one-ounce price.
Stamp Art Director
Greg Breeding
Greg Breeding is a graphic designer and principal of Journey Group, a design company he co-founded in 1992, located in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was creative director until 2013, at which time he began serving as president and continued in that role through 2023.
Breeding’s fascination with modernism began while studying design at Virginia Commonwealth University. His affinity with the movement continues and motivates his ongoing advanced studies at the Basel School of Design in Switzerland most every summer.
As an art director for postage stamp design since 2012, Breeding has designed more than 100 stamps covering a diverse array of subjects, from Star Wars droids and Batman to Harlem Renaissance writers and the transcontinental railroad.
His work has been recognized in annual design competitions held by Graphis, AIGA, PRINT magazine, and Communication Arts.
Breeding lives in North Garden, Virginia, with his wife and enjoys nothing so much as frolicking on the floor with his grandchildren.
Stamp Designer, Stamp Artist
Bailey Sullivan
Bailey Sullivan grew up in a small town in East Texas. She always knew she wanted to do something creative and for a time considered editorial layout design. At the University of Texas in Austin, she majored in advertising with a focus on art direction. Her work designing ads and experimenting with different styles in her free time led to an interest in creating visually appealing work and discovery of her “voice” as an illustrator.
Inspired by old European folk art, particularly Hungarian and Swedish, Sullivan reinterprets nature though simple shapes, bright colors, and symmetry. She enjoys going to museums to study the hand-done embellishments on old rugs and tapestries for additional inspiration.
Her clients have included Facebook, JetBlue, Lowe’s, Refinery29, and Tesco. Sullivan’s packaging illustration for Tesco Finest received a silver award in Packaging and a bronze in Illustration from The One Club’s ADC Awards.
Sullivan lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Sullivan illustrated the 2021 and 2022 U.S. Postal Service® Love stamps.