About This Stamp
Two simple words can mean so much. Say “thank you” in style with four stamps.
Highlighted in gold foil are the words "Thank you" in cursive script and an elegant floral design that swirls through and around the words. Dana Tanamachi, the stamp designer and lettering artist, drew the original sketches for the calligraphy by hand and then created the final art digitally. She added floral elements to the swirls, which resemble vines. Inspired by penmanship from the past, she created an elegant, flowing script that is classic yet fresh and modern, evoking a sense of connection and gratitude. Each of the four stamps features one of these background colors: blue gray, purple, muted green, and soft maroon.
One of the most thoughtful ways to express gratitude is to send a handwritten note declaring a heartfelt “thank you.” Taking the time to commit words of thanks to paper is a ritual that elevates the act of appreciation and gratifies both the recipient and the sender. A few sentences are all that is needed.
Today, there is a renewed awareness of the importance of offering gratitude. Recently published books, websites, and online video tutorials deliver instructions on how to write a note of thanks, and in the process, they have revived an almost lost art.
These elegant and joyful stamps will add visual appeal to notes, cards, and letters of thanks sent to acknowledge a favor, an act of kindness, or a job well done or to express thanks for gifts sent for any occasion including birthdays, graduations, holidays, and weddings.
Greg Breeding was the art director.
The Thank You stamps will be issued as Forever® stamps in panes of 20. These Forever stamps will always be equal 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
Dana Tanamachi
After graduating from the University of North Texas in 2007 with a degree in Communication Design, Dana Tanamachi relocated to New York City to embark on a career in graphic arts. It was at a Brooklyn housewarming party in 2009 that Tanamachi created an impromptu hand-lettered design on a chalkboard wall—and a new passion was born. This led to her first commissions from local companies, and eventually from Google. Her early large-scale typography work pioneered the popular chalk-lettering trend.
After working under renowned designer Louise Fili in New York, she opened her own studio, Tanamachi Studio, specializing in custom typography and illustration for editorial, lifestyle, food, and fashion brands. Her clients include Nike, Instagram, West Elm, Ralph Lauren, and Target. Tanamachi has created custom covers for several magazines including O, The Oprah Magazine and TIME.
In 2011, the Art Directors Club of New York named Tanamachi as one of its Young Guns, an award that recognizes creative professionals 30 years of age and under. She was also named a Young Creative to Watch by HOW Magazine, a periodical for graphic designers.
The artist relocated from Brooklyn to Seattle in 2015.
The stamp art for the 2020 Thank You issuance is Tanamachi's first project for the U.S. Postal Service.