national park posters
*re-issued*
personal projectThe National Park System and its established graphic aesthetic is something I love. I love the outdoors. I love design. So there is a connection to this world I am rooted in. I’ve spent hours through hundreds of PDF pages the USDA Forest Service openly publishes online. Alongside this, I have taken countless pictures of graphics at park visitor centers, roadside signs, and campgrounds across the country. The overall aesthetic combined with the environment it supports has greatly captivated me.
While looking through the book Parks (by Brian Kelly) I discovered so many designs and layouts I was inspired by. Not quiet sure what to use this new found inspiration for I sat on it for a long time and as these things go, it just ended up as more photos of designs in a book taking up space on my iPhone. Somewhere along the way though, I had this realization that maybe if I took photos I had taken from trips to national parks and then ran them through this new found filter, I could rework and reissue so to speak, my own version of these designs.
I should start also by saying, the work I’ve created is much more of an homage than an “original” in the sense that the creative direction really is directly influenced by someone elses work. What I have done however is tried to most accurated emmulate the techniques and visuals based on this preexisting design. So I open express this work that I call my own comes with a connection to someone elses creative process and design from 1966.
Below are just 3 examples from recent visits where I took this approach. I intend to screenprint them and would likely put a small edition up for sale on the site. Stay tuned or shoot me a message if you are interested in buying one or multiple.
I also plan to continue designing more of these as I visit new parks and take additional photos of these great places.
posters
intent is to screenprint these as a 2 color with paper choice being the base color in each version. each series will be in an
1. base color (paper selection)
2. black ink (photography)
3. white ink (typography)
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