Type Hike: 100 Years of the National Parks

There is a great collection of silk-screened posters celebrating 100 years of the National Parks

Service hanging at the Type Directors Club currently.

It was the brainchild of Type Hike, a collaborative non-profit project dedicated to supporting and celebrating the outdoors through typography. In 2016 they assembled 60 artists to create original art for their favorite National Park. 100% of the profits from the print sales will be donated to help protect the outdoors.

Here is a link to the series: http://typehike.com/.

I enjoyed going through the designs counting all the parks I've been to. The series has been exhibited across the US and has officially been added to the permanent collection of The Library of Congress.

"All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best."

—John Muir

Photos by Larry McFarland, 2017