About This Stamp
The U.S. Postal Service continued its tradition of drawing attention to important social causes by issuing the AMBER Alert stamp in 2006 to honor a program dedicated to the rapid recovery of abducted children. AMBER stands for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response.
The chalk pastel illustration by artist Vivienne Flesher shows a reunited mother and child entwined in each other’s arms. The type on each stamp and text across the header of the stamp pane reads “AMBER ALERT saves missing children.” This was Flesher’s second project for the Postal Service. Her first was the 2005 Love Bouquet stamp.
Stamp Art Director, Stamp Designer
Derry Noyes
For more than 40 years Derry Noyes has designed and provided art direction for close to 800 United States postage stamps and stamp products. She holds a bachelor of arts degree from Hampshire College and a master of fine arts degree from Yale University.
Noyes worked as a graphics designer at Beveridge and Associates, a Washington, D.C., firm, until 1979 when she established her own design firm, Derry Noyes Graphics. Her clients have included museums, corporations, foundations, and architectural and educational institutions. Her work has been honored by American Illustration, the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington, Communication Arts, Critique magazine, Graphis, Creativity International, and the Society of Illustrators.
Before becoming an art director for the U.S. Postal Service, she served as a member of the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee from 1981 to 1983.
Noyes is a resident of Washington, D.C.