GEORG OLDEN, STAMP FOR THE CENTENARY OF THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION,
The stamp for the centenary of the Emancipation Proclamation was created by Georg Olden, he was the head of the network's division of on-air promotions at the dawn of television, Olden pioneered the field of broadcast graphics. He was also an artist and a designer. He created the piece below. I feel he captured some of the emotion of what the emancipation proclamation achieved, the locked chains are broken. Thats what I feel when I look at this piece. I also feel the colors go well with this piece because it does not use very vibrant colors that gives off a false emotion for that time, instead it gives off the more appropriate feeling of that time period dark, and cold. Without even reading the words, I get freedom, and release from looking at the broken chains. I think it was a good design for one of Americas stamps as slavery was apart in the molding of our modern day America; unfortunately.
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