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Declaration of Independence

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About This Stamp

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

Juan Carlos Pagan

New York–based multidisciplinary artist, designer, creative director, and typographer Juan Carlos Pagan has created visual identities and campaigns for brands including Pinterest, Cîroc, Under Armour, Apple, Disney, and NPR. He has also designed cover art for publications such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Variety.

In 2013 Pagan received the prestigious Young Guns Award from The One Club for Creativity, which recognizes the world’s best creatives under the age of 30. That same year he was named the top of Adweek‘s Talent 100. He was subsequently nominated for PRINT magazine’s New Visual Artist 20 Under 30. In 2018 Pagan received the Type Directors Club Ascenders Award, which recognizes designers who are 35 years of age and under for their remarkable achievement in design and typography.

Pagan has led creative departments at MTV, DDB New York, Deutsch NY, and 72andSunny NY. In 2017 he co-founded Sunday Afternoon, a hybrid creative design studio and artist management agency. Sunday Afternoon was named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing companies in America in 2020. In 2022 PRINT magazine named the firm Design Agency of the Year.

Pagan received his B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in 2006 and completed his postgraduate studies in typeface design at The Cooper Union in 2011.

His first project for the U.S. Postal Service, the “Love” artwork for the 2024 Pinback Buttons stamp issuance, was followed by his design and typography for the Declaration of Independence stamp (2026).

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