Sunday, August 15, 2021

Illustrate every National Park in the United States

In 2015 we set out to illustrate every National Park in the United States. Our passion project has since become a full-time focus, and it has lead us to visit over two-thirds of the parks.

The series is a call to action to visit the parks, preserve nature, and celebrate the art of printmaking. 5% of every poster sale before profit is donated to The National Park Service. Through our prints and our partnerships we’ve been able to help donate over $100k to The National Park Service.

Our aspiration has always been to get park nerds into posters and poster nerds into the parks. We’ve been moved to hear so many stories about just that! Like the mom the parks enthusiast who got into posters with her son the poster admirer. It’s so cool to hear that the two of them got to experience their first national park together! Our early days of eclectic music events were always about bringing people together with different interests. We’re so glad the series can help do something similar even if in small ways.

Our ultimate goal is to celebrate the parks, give some shine to the art of printmaking, and bring people together in the process. Here’s to leaning into those aspirations even more for years to come.

The series is now archived by The Library of Congress and has expanded in ways we couldn’t have imagined.


Joshua Tree National Park Poster with Little Friends of Printmaking


Crater Lake National Park Poster with Dan McCarthy


Great Smoky Mountain National Park Poster with Chris Turnham


Grand Canyon National Park Poster with DKNG


Grand Teton National Park Poster with Kim Smith


Zion National Park Poster with Dan McCarthy


Rocky Mountain National Park Poster with Rory Kurtz


Yosemite National Park Poster with Dan McCarthy


Yosemite National Park Poster with Strong Stuff










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