Jungfraujoch Research Station
A Swiss Post Stamp to celebrate the High Altitude Research Station Jungfraujoch
One year ago (August 2021) Swiss Post contacted me and asked if I would be interested in taking part in a competition for a stamp to celebrate the research station on top of Jungfraujoch. Swiss Post invited three studios for the briefing to the “Top of Europe”. We spent an amazing day at 3’500 meters above sea level and came back with a lot of impressions, information and fotos on our smart phones.
After a clearly defined design process, a committee at Swiss Post decided whose stamp design should be produced. I was the lucky winner and, in addition to the stamp, was also allowed to design the sheetlet of 10 stamps and the first day envelope with a special stamp.
Date: August 2021 – February 2022 / Client: Swiss Post, Anik Coray / Illustration and design: Monika Rohner / Font: Steradian by Emtype Foundry
↑ The stamp
↑ Sheetlet of 10 stamps
↑ First-day cover
↑ Illustration on the first-day cover
↑ Detail first-day cover
The idea behind the picture: Thanks to its location, the Jungfraujoch research station “receives” air from all over Europe. The air currents and their components that flow around the station are hardly visible. But it is precisely this air that is an important object of research for the studies being carried out on the Jungfraujoch. It is only with the evaluation of the data obtained that the air and its components become visible.
In my designs, this air becomes visible in the form of dashed lines. The air lines or air currents are made up of many small strokes. On the one hand, to show the dynamics of the air, but also to point out the individual components (aerosols, etc.) that are examined in the research station.
