Joel Anderson is an illustrator, designer, and founding owner of Anderson Design Group (ADG). Their 63 National Parks, Coastal Collection, and Legends sets of postcards have captured postcrossers’ imaginations and are a favorite of many.
Joel took some time out from his busy Nashville studio to answer Clarisse (aka Cstar9)'s questions via email. All the art included in this post is the work of the Anderson Design Group.
- In exploring your work online, I keep running into several keywords that describe the Anderson Design Group – nostalgia, golden age, wonder, adventure, local pride. Do these resonate? Are there other descriptors you’d use?
These are very good words to describe our style of art. As a student in the 1980s at Ringling School of Art & Design, I was particularly drawn to Golden Age illustrators who created magazine covers, ads, and poster art in the early 20th century, before photography became more widely used. These artists hand-lettered, drew, and painted everything in a romantic, iconic style that glamorized travel, celebrated beauty, and evoked a longing to explore.
The travel poster art of that era was commissioned by railways, cruise lines, automobile makers, and eventually airlines to entice people to buy tickets and go places.
Artwork from that magical era still conjures up a feeling of wonder, awe, and passion. We strive to capture some of that magic in our artwork. Our goal is to pick up where these 20th-century masters left off and continue their legacy for a whole new generation to enjoy.
- Tell us about the artists in your design group.
Anderson Design Group is an ever-evolving team of artists who have worked under my direction for 30 years. I was trained to be an illustrator and a graphic designer, so I still enjoy doing some of the artwork myself.4+ years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, so I am gradually losing my fine motor skills. This has challenged me to enhance my skills as an Art Director—sort of like a composer/director of a chamber orchestra. I don’t have to play all of the instruments, I just have to have a vision, the skills to communicate it, and virtuoso players to interpret the vision, adding their own talent, experience, style, and skill along the way.
I have 2 in-house artists (Aaron Johnson and Derek Anderson) who work closely with me, day in and day out. I also have a roster of contract artists who I engage because of their particular style or skill. One of my collaborating artists lives in Spain, another in New York.
Others I’ve worked with live in Colorado, Georgia, Seattle, and South Carolina. You can see all of the artist’s names next to each of the 2,500+ designs on our site.
The common thread that ties our diverse styles together is attention to authentic detail and a love for Golden Age-styled artwork. I push my artists to create artwork using techniques, rendering styles, colors, and type styling that was popular from 1900 to 1960. We use computers and modern tools, but I encourage my artists to study art history—especially early 20th-century commercial art—and to emulate the sense of style, passion, and grace of that era. - Every year you donate a portion of your profits to the National Park Foundation. ADG has several collections devoted to parks, and you write frequently about individual parks in your blog. At what point did national parks become a focus for the Anderson Design Group?
Our first series of poster/postcard art was created in 2004 to celebrate our hometown, Nashville, Tennessee. It was the Spirit of Nashville Collection, and it featured our favorite things about Music City. That first series of prints won a bunch of awards and began to establish our reputation for doing poster art about specific destinations.
After we had done 150 posters about Nashville, folks from other American cities asked us if we would celebrate their town in the same classic style. So we did posters depicting major U.S. cities like New York, Chicago, San Francisco, New Orleans, Las Vegas, etc. That spawned our Art & Soul of America series.
As we thought about our favorite American destinations, National Parks ranked high on the list, so we began celebrating several of the National Parks and National Monuments in our classic style.
In 2015, my wife and our 4 kids borrowed an old RV and drove from Tennessee to Utah and Arizona to visit the Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Petrified Forest. That trip was life-changing for our family. It lit the flame for our National Parks passion, and it inspired me to begin trying to render one poster for each of the 59 parks.
My son Nathan is a writer. He and I had an idea—what if we took all of the poster art and we published a book to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the National Parks Service? (The Centennial would be in 2016.) So we published the book (59 Illustrated National Parks) and it became a best-seller. We’ve since printed multiple editions of the book, updating each time Congress adds new parks. (Now there are 63 National Parks.) We continue to visit as many National Parks each year as possible. We love hiking, taking photos, and just basking in the wilderness and wonder of our American heritage. The parks belong to all of us, and they are definitely worth celebrating, protecting, and passing along to the next generation.
- I’m personally dying to know the origins of the Legends series, which are my favorite of your cards. What is this collection’s story?
After we had depicted all 63 of the National Parks in many different ways, we began doing research to figure out other interesting aspects of the parks that we had not yet celebrated in our artwork. We had a lot of success with our Bigfoot posters, and we soon began to notice that many of the parks were associated with similar myths, legends, and historical indigenous stories about Sasquatch and other more bizarre cryptids. As we did our research, we came across legends like the Moth Man, Lizard Man, Grass Man, the Jackelope, the Wendigo, and other creepy, unexplained, or quirky tall tales.
This was an artist’s dream, since nobody had ever photographed or videotaped one of these mythical creatures (except for Bigfoot?). All we had to do was piece together the various stories and use our imaginations to fill in the blanks. We found at least 38 different National Parks with significant legends. During our research, we became aware of other mythical creatures from around the world like the Yeti, the Loch Ness Monster, etc. These international creatures are featured in our poster art, but not yet in our postcard sets.
- Tell us about your studio [which I hope to tour soon!] – what are some of the inspirational elements there?
I like toys. I like collecting quirky objects (my wife calls them junk). And I like making folk art out of found objects. This creative clutter (pictured here) brightens our studio and adds some whimsy to our decor scheme.
- You’ve had quite a career. What have been some of the most courageous pivots you have made, and what were the biggest lessons you learned from those?
I am 58 years old now. I started ADG 30 years ago. Back then, we were doing mostly album cover and book cover design work for clients like Universal, Capitol Records, Random House, Harper Collins, etc. That was fun, but my passion was illustration—especially poster art. For the first 10 years, only 10% of our business was illustration, and very little of it was poster-related. Today, our biz is 90% illustration, and of that work, most of it is poster art.
We made the shift by saying NO to good-paying jobs that did not fit our passion, and saying YES to jobs that let us do what we loved most. Our work and reputation just kept improving as we focused more and more on what we loved to do. We diversified from doing mostly work for clients to doing a combination of client work, retail, wholesale, and licensing. We opened a retail space in our building, we built a good online store, and I began licensing our art to companies who use it on calendars, puzzles, fabric, and souvenirs. Mind you, we’re still a small, family-owned biz run by just me, my wife, and our son Nathan. We only have 4 employees besides the 3 family members.
Covid was bad for our retail store (it is no longer open), but it was great for our online store. So the big lesson is that life never goes as planned. Challenges can end up being good, even if they cause headaches at first. I believe The Almighty has a plan for each of us, and hence, a good reason for everything that happens in life. I believe that adversity builds character, faith, ingenuity, and humility—all necessary ingredients in living a purpose-driven, joy-filled life! I’ve had to pivot due to Parkinson’s, too… I am now art directing most of the time and not illustrating as much as before (unless I am going for a squiggly, shaky rendering style)!
- What is your relationship to paper broadly, and specifically to postal mail (including postcards)?
I love paper. Poster paper, postcard stock, drawing paper, books—they all inspire me. Computer screens, tablets, and phones lack the warmth, permanence, and heirloom quality of paper products. I still send cards, letters, and postcards. I decorate with framed prints. I love opening the mailbox and pulling out a genuine hand-addressed card or envelope. Who doesn’t?
- Who would you say have been your main influencers in design?
Many of the nameless artists of the Works Progress Administration era have greatly influenced my art. Norman Rockwell, NC Wyeth, Kustav Klimt, Roger Broders, Alphonse Mucha, Ludwig Hohlwein, and Tom Purvis are some of my heroes, too. Everything my team creates is inspired in some way by artists who have gone before us. We often mentor art students and give them tours of our studio. Our work is inspiring hundreds of young artists who will eventually follow in our footsteps creating a whole new generation of art. Nothing is new under the sun, yet each new creation nudges art history forward.
- What’s something you are most proud of, in your art/design work?
I am very satisfied to know that thousands of people around the world enjoy looking at a poster or postcard designed by Anderson Design Group. I am proud of my artists, my family, and our collaborators who all work together to make accessible, affordable, enjoyable art. And I am so blessed to be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor while I am still alive (unlike so many brilliant struggling artists whose work only became famous or profitable after they died).
- What’s next for Anderson Design Group?
We are finishing off our World Travel Collection—a massive poster series that includes at least one poster for every country on the globe. It would make a fabulous 200-piece postcard set, but it would probably cost about $100… so I’m not sure if people would buy it! Maybe we could break it up into smaller collector sets—divided up by continents? But wait—Antarctica would be a pretty small set!
Anderson Design Group is an ever-evolving 
The common thread that ties our diverse styles together is attention to authentic detail and a love for Golden Age-styled artwork. I push my artists to create artwork using techniques, rendering styles, colors, and type styling that was popular from 1900 to 1960. We use computers and modern tools, but I encourage my artists to study art history—especially early 20th-century commercial art—and to emulate the sense of style, passion, and grace of that era. 
My son Nathan is a writer. He and I had an idea—what if we took all of the poster art and we published a book to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the National Parks Service? (The Centennial would be in 2016.) So we published 
To learn more about Joel and the Anderson Design Group work, check out their website and shop. You can also see this video interview on Joel Anderson’s origins and growth as an artist and business founder, including how to approach failure! And last but not least, you can learn how Anderson Design Group’s Spirit of Nashville series became iconic in Nashville.
And now, for the traditional giveaway you’ve all been waiting for! Clarisse is going to send 4 postcards from the Anderson Design group to 4 randomly picked postcrossers. To participate, leave a comment below sharing your favorite national park from your country. Four winners will be picked and posted here next week.
And the winners of this giveaway, as chosen by Paulo’s random number generator are… ffuesch, annegret, Potatosium and betslets! Congratulations, and thank you all for participating!
154 comments so far
I really love these cards and have a lot of them in my favourites.
My favourite National Park is the „Eifel“ at the border to Belgium where I actually spend my holidays :-)
I personally love the design of these cards.
My favourite national park is "Harz", covering the area of Germany's northernmost low montainrange.
My favourite national park is the Peak District as it's easily accessible by train, bus or bike from where I live and it spans a variety of landscapes and features!
We have a total of 23 national parks in The Netherlands. The are all beautiful. Most tourist visit the Hoge Veluwe, but I am very charmed by the Biesbosch. In the night of November 18 to 19 in the year 1421, a storm surge, known as the Sint Elisabeth Flood, caused a hole in the dike. This means that the extensive polder De Groote Waard suddenly had an open connection with the sea. The residents, spread over at least 27 villages that disappeared under the water, had neither the resources nor the organization to save the polder. What remained was a large inland lake, the Bergsche Veld, with a single fisherman and leased salmon fishing. After 600 years this beautiful area is home of many animals like the bever and the eagle. A beautiful place to visit.
Such gorgeous cards! :)
My favourite Dutch national park so far (haven't visited all of them yet) is Utrechtse Heuvelrug. There are so many different bird species, boars and deers. It's a great place for mushroom photography during Autumn and early winter as well and there a several observation towers to enjoy the beauty views!
Very interesting interview! I purchased a set of postcards from the Nashville design series while at an art museum in Nashville and never knew that they were designed by the same people who did the national parks postcards, very cool!
My favorite national park is Dry Tortugas in the beautiful Florida Keys
I love this art style! It is so nice to hear a successful story from someone who followed their heart over money.
My favourite national park in the UK is one I visited recently. Flamborough Head has chalk cliffs, a lighthouse, a beach, seals and puffins! The constant erosion of the UK coastline in this area is oddly fascinating too.
I love this series and have similar poster on my walls!
Awesome postcards!
My favorite national park is the one I've been to most recently. Acadia up in Maine. Thunder Hole, Jordan Pond, Cadillac Mountain... all just stunning. Love ADG cards ❤️
What an inspiring interview, Clarisse! Thank you to Joel and to you!
From the south west of the UK, I have to give a shoutout to our nearest national park, the Brecon Beacons, or in Welsh, Bannai Brycheiniog.
Thank you again, very much!
Charles
my favorite is the Arches National Park. I have sent many of ADG postcards and they are such a hit. one of the best designs
This article was just wonderful to read and delight for the eyes!
I will definitely be checking out the shop.
My favorite national park is Yellowstone
Amazing postcards AND life story! Good reminder to lean into your passions.
In Slovakia there are 9 National Parks. I absolutely love The National Park of High Tatras. It is so majestic with so many chalets (at Rainer chalet you can see a very friendly fox), waterfalls (my favourite are Studenovodské vodopády and waterfall Skok), moutain lakes and many more. Just a beautiful place to visit.
I love Glacier National Park and Yellowstone allot
My favorite National Park in the US: Probably Acadia.
—BTW, I recently bought the Anderson Nashville postcards, which are great. Also saw their display while visiting The Grand Ole Opry—so fun!
I really enjoyed this interview with Joel Anderson, and I love the artwork of the ADG! My favorite U.S. national park might be Redwoods, or maybe Yellowstone, or Yosemite, or Glacier…It’s impossible to choose! 😁
The wild romantic Suisse of Saxony is one of my favourites. But there are so much more great national parcs in Germany ...
The Saxon suisse!
Love the Smoky Mountains bear cub poster at the top of the post! 😍 Bears are the cutest. My favorite National Park in USA so far is Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, but I'm desperate to go to Yosemite as well!
My favorite is local in Bangalore - Bannerghatta National Park in Karnataka state of India
First: thank you for this play, I like very much the postcards. My favourite National Park in France is the National Park of forests( Le Parc National de forêts), between rivers Seine and Rhône, between Champagne and Bourgogne for the preservation of the resource in water.
Amazing postcards! I think I have a few of the national park ones already. Looking forward to seeking out more. My favorite National Park is Rocky Mountain National Park.
I´m a huge fan of the "Nationalpark Wattenmeer" as I love the North Sea and the fresh breezes there...
These are beautiful. I love the style of early 20th century artwork. Norman Rockwell is one of my favorite painters. My favorite National Park is one I just visited last month, Mammoth Cave National Park. The cave system is huge. Visiting more National Parks is on my bucket list.
My favourite National Park in Canada is Banff National Park. My favourite place in Banff Park is Moraine Lake , when I am there I never want to leave.
The Cairngorms National Park in Scotland is magical : hills mountains lochs wildlife....AND...you can take the funocular railway and post your postcards in the highest postbox in the UK on Cairngorm Mountain'
I love these cards! My favorite national park in my country is the Yosemite :D
Beautiful cards! Thank you for this interesting interview, and for all posts featuring artists and their creative process.
My favourite National Park in Italy is also the oldest one: Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso.
Great interview! My favorite is Shenandoah National Park!
This interview was a wonderful read and such an inspiration! I have loved the National Parks artwork, and while there are many I have visited and appreciated, I will favorite the one nearby and which I will be visiting later this year: Joshua Tree National Park.
We have 15 national parks in the UK and I have in my lifetime so far visited 12. The closest to me is the new forest which is beautiful but I found a love for the cairngorm and the north Pembrokeshire coastline. We are very fortunate indeed. The as yet unlimited are on the list to see! :)
My favorite national park is Rocky Mountain National Park - right near where I grew up!
Oh my gosh, loved this interview & love this design group!!
I also love that he motioned humility.
Many blessings for you, your family & your collaborators in the future!!
My favorite Czech national park is the Bohemian Forest.
I've visited the Anderson Design shop in Nashville and bought some lovely cards right there. They capture the nostalgic feeling of bygone Americana like nothing else.
Wonderful cards. Difficult to make a choice.
Wunderschöne Karten!!
Der Nationalpark Niedersächsisches Wattenmeer ist mein Favorit.
What an interesting interview - I love the art style! My favourite national park is the Kuring-gai Chase National Park in North Sydney, Australia. With bushland, cliffs, streams and coastline, it has some incredible scenery for everyone!
Has anyone mentioned Big Bend in Texas? It is remote but starkly beautiful. From here, if you have your passport, you can cross over the Rio Grande into Mexico and have lunch!
My favorite national park here in Chile is the Reserva Biológica Huilo Huilo. There's so much biodiversity and life there. 10/10 would visit again.
PS. I love Anderson Design group postcards! I've been collecting them for a while.
Harpers Ferry National Park
Lassen Volcanic National Park
Glacier National Park is my favorite but I love so many of our 63 US National Parks!
I loved Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan. Though thoughts this week have turned to residents of the town of Jasper in Jasper National Park in the Rocky Mountains - many lost their homes due to a fast-moving wildfire.
I love the vintage look of the ADG's National Park series postcards. My favorite, by far, of the National Parks I have visited is Yellowstone. It has become a measuring stick by which I judge other parks. That's probably not fair to the other parks, but the old slogan rings true in my opinion. "The first and the best." That being said, I can't wait to see some of the many parks I haven't yet visited.
My favorite national park is Muir Woods with the huge redwood trees. Tallest trees in the world. The drive there is beautiful along the water. This is in Northern California, USA 🇺🇸
Great interview, I love his designs and have bought many of his cards! My favorite national park in the US is Shenandoah, close to home for me.
Thanks for this nice update about the artist. Love it, and enjoying his view of posters.
Thank you for a wonderful post. I love learning about new postcard artists and adding them to my collection.
This was such an interesting and inspiring interview! I've always loved this art series so it's great to get to know the artist behind it. My favorite US National Park I've visited is the Grand Canyon. It was more majestic and beautiful than I had imagined! ♥️🇺🇸😊
Thank you Clarisse for sharing with us your interview with Joel Anderson. Now I know who created those wonderful artworks I often see featured in travel magazines and posters. My favourite national park here in Sydney is the Blue Mountains National Park.
Thank you for this interview!
My favourite national park is De Hoge Veluwe. Th Kröller-Müller Museum in this park has many art collections (including Van Gogh) and is certainly worth a visit!
Der Schwarzwald!! :O)
My favourite national park is Girraween National Park. It has fascinating balancing boulders that seem to defy physics.
I am glad to know the history of the artists behind this beautiful art. Now I really appreciate my small collection of purchased postcards all the more.
Thank you for sharing your talent.
I love the "The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal (C&O)" trail. I start it here in Maryland and go further every time I go. You can take any person there no matter if they want to hike or just take pictures. I really hope the boat gets fixed soon.
There's only one national park (if you don't count national historic parks) in New England, the region of the U.S. I live in and that is Acadia National Park in Maine which is a wonderful place - I'll go with that one. There are many other parks that I haven't been to yet that I need to get cracking on.
Beautiful travel posters. My favourite national park in Austria is the "Gesäuse Nationalpark" in the province Styria.
I love the retro designs! It's hard to choose one favorite National Park. I love every one I've visited. But I guess I'll have to pick Yellowstone.
Growing up in Arizona, we were so lucky to have The Grand Canyon. My first visit was as an 8-year old. As the years passed, it became more popular than ever, and somewhat crowded (as I believe many such parks have become). But, the natural beauty remains there and is particularly very special as the seasons change. I really more fully appreciated this majestic place after listening to Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite which expressed the beauty of the park through music.
Beautiful Art! My favorite National Park is Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, because I live nearby and have hiked, backpacked or snow shooed most of the trails there.
I loved reading this interview. Thank you for sharing it with us.
My favourite national park is the South Downs. For most of my life, it's not been a national park, but it HAS been one of my lifelong favourite local places to visit. I love the gentle beauty of the landscape.
Bought 2 sets of US National Park postcards to share with friends n family members. Yellowstone is still my favourite. Cheers.
Frecinet National Park in Tasmania, Australia
My favourite postcard in the series is Cave Dragon. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac n thus this theme card is very meaningful n beautiful to share. Cheers.
I have at least 2 of every legend card and myth card. I frame and hang 1 and post cross with the second. My absolute favorite series and each time a new design is released , i have to buy it.
I recently discovered a "63 National Parks" cardstock at my local B&N. I had no idea who the artist was, but I loved the retro vibe right away. Now it all makes sense!
Oh! I love ADG design very much!! I have been to his store near Centennial Park several times when I lived in Nashville. I bought a large Spirit of Nashville poster from the store when I left Nashville in 2016. I bought postcards online from here when I started postcrossing in 2021 and since then the cards have been one of my favorites. My favorite National Park is the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. I went there last year. I hope to go again soon.
How interesting!
I love Pribaikalsky National Park (on the western shore of Lake Baikal) :)
My favourite and most visited would be The Cradle Mountain - Lake St Clair National Park. I have walked the Overland track 4 times, most recently earlier this month. My first winter trek and it was wonderful. Beautiful places away from the crowds.
I saw some postcards from Anderson Design Group when I visited the Great Smoky Mountains NP! I would have to say that my favorite (so far) out of all the NPs I've visited is Denali NP.
Just discovered and want them all!
Catalan National Park: Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici!
Thanks a lot for this interesting blog post.
I like the design of these cards and above all I like the Nashville Collection 💚🎸
My favourite National Park here in Germany is "Eifel" 🌲🌳🦌🐗
This is a great interview! I have had Anderson Design Group postcards in my collection for years so it was great to learn more about it. I haven't been to many national parks at all. But if I had to pick one to visit, it would be Yellowstone National Park. I would love to see the geysers and also the bison! :)
This blogpost is so interesting to read through and I love illustration that they have made! My favourite park in my country, Brunei, is Ulu Temburong National Park!
I used to catch insects for my friend's research, and I caught a rare, endangered butterfly in Borneo that is called Rajah Brooke's Birdwing. We took pictures and let it free since it's an endangered species. It's fascinating and amazing we managed to get the butterfly and to know that the butterfly still exists!
Did you know that Taylor Swift started her music career in Nashville?
My favorite National Park in Germany is the Nationalpark Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria. It's a very popular park here.
Thanks a lot for an interesting interview! I like the local Koli National Park in North Karelia. Those hills there are all what's left of the ancient mountains as high as the Alps're today. Unfortunately the european pine sawflys have caussed forest damages there.
Russia have 65 national parks. I've only visited one park - Krasnoyarsk pillars. It is necessary to climb the mountains 9 km to see the stone pillars. There I saw grouse, finches, bullfinches, chipmunks and even sable. It was unforgettable. I walked 19 km in one day. It was very difficult.
What a great post with information I didn't know. Love the work. One of our favorite National Parks we've visited is Olympic National Park in Washington. The beautiful pacific coastline, rainforest, glaciers and lakes make it so incredibly diverse. We love visiting the national parks.
My favorite national park: DEATH VALLEY. Stunning.
Great article.
The Smokie Mountains would be a favorite of mine.
I always try to buy special postcards from the national parcs we visit. In Germany we love the Eifel Nationalparc. But we do not have many.
I really love the National Parcs in the USA where we often spent our holidays. I think we were more then 20 times in various parts of the USA. But we love in particular 2 of them: The Lassen Vulcanic and the Olympic Nationalparc with the rough coastline.
Although we also enjoyed the bigger and more known ones like Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Bryce Canyon, Canyonland...
I learned about ADG several years ago from another Postcrosser's profile. I googled "Anderson Design Group" and have been buying ADG postcards ever since. Thank you for this inspiring article! By the way, I would pay $100 for their 200-piece postcard set, if they decide to produce it 🙂
I love these postcards 😍
How interesting! In Switzerland, there is only one official national park – but we have other parks that are also worth a visit. The national park is very nice, but also mountainous. I especially like seeing the wildlife there.
I love the Spirit of Nashville cards! I used to travel often to Nashville to visit relatives and the day I discovered these in a shop I was SO EXCITED!!! I immediately bought them as souvenirs of my trips there but since have sent many of them to people. (By the way, an additional source for postcards there is Hatch Show Prints, which I am told is now part of the Country Music Hall of Fame museum.)
Great interview ! Interesting story !
Stunning cards ... colourful ,lovely design !
National Park ' Scheldevallei ' is worthwhile a visit !
I too love the art style of these cards.
My current favorite NP is the Dry Tortugas which I was able to visit last year. It was a journey to get there and was very hot, but the guide was very informative, and we got to self tour the fort, while others went snorkeling.
My favourite national park in my country Germany ist the "Harz". I really love the artwork of the postcards. I wish we would have something similar in my hometown.
These designs are absolutely fabulous! I collect them, much better than photos... :) The vote for our National Park will be Serra da Estrela Park since it's the place where I spend my holidays since childhood. Thank you for this nice blog entry! :)
The art of these post cards is lovely. I have only been to The Grand Canyon, Zion and Bryce Canyon, many years ago, and so, they are my favorite. If I were able to, I'd love to see the Petrified Forest and The Redwood National Forest. I love trees. Thank you for the interview.
Amazing post and I have loved his work! I wish I could visit more parks here because his postcards are so beautiful!
Thank you for sharing your words and talents. Gorgeous posters and postcards.
I love the style and design of these cards
I have received a couple of these cards in the past so it was great to read this interview. It has suddenly made the cards I have much more special, thank you.
Here in Spain , my favourite National Park has to be the Sierra Nevada. it's only a couple of hours drive from my home but feels like a proper holiday when I visit.
These postcards are amazing! For me it must be Sierra de las Nieves - in the Malaga region of Andalusia, Spain. I've spent time living in Ojén, a beautiful little town in this area, and it's truly a magical place to be. It's hard not to start the day with a smile on your face when you look across at the beautiful nature surrounding you 😊
Thanks for your article! Nice work, a window of dreams.
My favourite park is White Sands
I love this style of postcard, it's in fact the only type that I collect with serious fervor. My favorite national park is the one closest to home- Crater Lake National Park in Oregon, USA :)
My favorite national park is Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado! My grandpa lives right down the mountain from it, so it's easy to visit when I visit him. I absolutely love the Legends of the National Parks postcard series!!
It's so to choose one, but Glacier National Park is my favorite from among those that I've been lucky enough to visit!
I love these postcards and this interview. As an artists, I love learning the process and details on how work is developed. My favorite US National Park is Acadia in Maine. My favorite in Canada is Jasper National Park which was recently affected by a serious forest fire. I’m thinking of all the animals and humans who call that place home. I hope they can return home soon and begin to rebuild this beautiful place. If I win this giveaway, I’ll send encouraging notes to a few businesses in this park.
South Downs National Park down here in the south east of the UK.... always a joy to see the sea from one of those great, English, rolling hills.
Beautiful cards and thank you for this interesting interview!
Looking forward to having them all!
My favourite park is Estany de Sant Maurici i Aigüestortes, in the Catalan Pyrenees, a haven of peace and nature a few kilometers from Barcelona!
What beautiful artistic illustrations. Thank you.
In Redwood National Park, I walk, I listen to the silence, I am getting energy. I am in symbiosis with nature.
We only have one National Park in Switzerland I was never there 🙈. I like the Thal Natur Park very much but is not a National Park.
Today is my 1st Postcrossing anniversary!! ^^
I love this cool Nashville postcards, they look great!
My favourite national park is the National Park of the Sierra de Guadarrama, an incredible mountain region located between the provinces of Madrid and Segovia. And there's also a special mountrain railway located nearby, the Cercedilla-Navacerrada-Cotos line :D
My favorite park in Hong Kong is the Victoria Peak Garden.
It locates at the highest point on Hong Kong Island, which provides stunning panoramic views over the Victoria Harbour. It also has a classical Victorian-era architectural style, allowing visitors to take in the breathtaking vistas of Hong Kong's iconic skyline and natural landscape.
Really hoping they do the cryptid's as postcards! I find their work both a joy to send but also to keep for myself as a part of my ever revolving clothesline of favorite cards hanging in my office/craftspace. Love these interviews so much!
Beautiful postcards! I haven't been to many national parks unfortunately but Shenandoah NP was wonderful.
This was a super interesting interview to read! I've always admired ADG's cards, so it was great to know about the folks behind them. My favorite national park is the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the big island. :) I went when I was a kid and never forgot how incredible it was!
Thanks for another great interview, Clarisse! I love these cards! Belgian's National Park I love most, is called the Eifel National Park and I especially love it so much because it unites Belgium and Germany. There are no borders in a forest! Just nature that is there to be looked after by all of us.
There are cryptid legend postcards!?! OMG!
Now there is a hole in my life devoid of these mystical park creature cards!
My wife is convinced that my wildflower waystation garden brings in the migratory Mothman and mischeivious Kentucky Goblin! It is a team effort to help threatened plants and animals. Thank you for your art!
My favorite National Park is the Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge.
I like these postcards too. I think, Viru Bog in Estonian Lahemaa National Park fits to this set too :)
These postcards are beautiful, I can't wait to see more designs from them in the future!
My favourite National Park in Canada is the Prince Edward Island National Park. I could camp for weeks there!
My favorite national park here in Germany is currently the "Nationalpark Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft" in the North-East of Germany, right next to the Baltic Sea.
Thanks for another interesting interview! :-)
Anderson Design Group postcards are my favourite.
Usually it’s hard to looking for on Facebook and Instagram, only few postcrossers offer them for swap.
Anyway, now I have an album dedicated to ADG postcards 😄 although there are many to be collected, current collection is still motivating to me. If anyone reading this comment, I’m happy to swap with you !
As ADG has so many postcards, every piece of ADG postcards I received was indexed and recorded via Flickr album. Google “Eng’s postcards collection” and you will find it.
I also love to play a game known as Civilization 6. To win the game, there is a victory called “Cultural Victory”. I think the artworks of ADG are the best examples for the cultural quote from the game:
“ The worth of a culture is not measured by its accomplishments, but in how those accomplishments last, and how they are remembered. The beauty that you have inspired our people to create will ensure that our culture stands for all time.”
As I am Malaysian and the state is really a far country for me, ADG postcards inspire me to visit it. The beautiful parks and the unique cities illustrated are really fascinating to me. Thank you and keep up the good work !
In trying my luck to win the prize, I want to introduce my country (Malaysia) UNESCO national park, the Mulu national park. It features rainforests, caves and pinnacles, rich diversity in terms of ecology and geology.
Its magnificent view is even printed on Malaysia’s highest denomination banknote (RM100)!
One of my favorite national parks in the U.S. is Cuyahoga Valley NP. It's best explored on a lovely bike trail,
My favorite is Koli, Finnish national park in North Karelia.
My favorite National Park in the USA is Mt. Rainier NP in Washington State, followed closely by Olympic NP!
when my son had lived in usa for some time, he always sent me the national park cards, so it's nice to read about the artists ... my favourite here is the hainich national park because of its huge beechwoods
Isle Royal park in Lake Superior!
It's on my bucket list
It’s a dream of mine to visit Sequoia National Park in the USA. I live the giant trees!
Lovely cards! In the Netherlans my favorite narional park is " Loonse en Drunense Duinen". A little desert where you can walk, bike ane wondering around for hours.
Hard to pick a favorite Nat'l Park. One of my favorites is Big Bend Nat'l Park in Texas. I visited/camped in the pre-9-11 days, and paid a local resident $1.00 to row me across the river to Santa Elena, walked around town and bought a truly authentic Mexican lunch in a local house. A couple hours later, he rowed me back across to the US side. No passport, no border checks.
Greetings from Spiekeroog, a small island in my favorite German national park: the waddensea! 🦭🦀🐚🪼
Yellowstone is a magnificent place. It is my favorite national park. But being a Hoosier I must say I enjoy my visits to Indiana Dunes NP. 😊
My favorite is Isle Royale National Park.
There are many beautiful national parks in the Netherlands, but if I can only choose one it will be: Veluwezoom. Especially in august! Every year I go to this park in august to watch the beautiful purple heather.
And nice to read the interesting interview with Joel Anderson! When I was on a roadtrip in the USA in 2017 I bought these beautiful postcards of the National Parks I visited.
Love the style of this art. (Wouldn’t mind getting a copy of the beach/rat race one!) the closest national park to me is the DeSoto National Memorial Park which is a great place for nature walks.
I'm really excited to be with Postcrossing, it's hasn't been a year yet since I joined. A friend helped me get started and gave me some of your postcards which I sent out.
Hi! My favorite is Timanfaya's Park. I have visited it only one time, but it was magic. Lots of volcanos, black sand, and sun.
Gerês national park! Portugal hidden gem! Wild horses, waterfalls and postcards!
One of Canada's most beautiful National Parks is Jasper, in the province of Alberta. Beautiful mountain views, clear lakes, and diverse wildlife. Unfortunately it, and the town of Jasper have been ravaged by recent wildfires, many of which are still burning out of control. Climate change has resulted in more forest fires and has made fire-fighting very challenging. High temperatures generate winds and mini-climates, spreading fires far from where they started. We are very grateful to the firefighters from other nations who have come to help with personnel and equipment.
My favourite national park in Finland is Repovesi in Kouvola, Southern Finland. The park is famous for a hanging bridge and a manually operated cable ferry.
My favorite national park, in the USA, is Yellowstone National Park.
Our family has only been to a few of the national parks in the USA, but my favorite is the Great Smoky Mountains & tGrand Canyon National Park. There is nothing I’ve ever seen like the Grand Canyon but love the smokies with the streams and the mountains. Love your illustrations and enjoy sending out your postcards!
I like your article and the activities.
https://bannerughattabiopark.org/ Bannerghatta National Park in Bengaluru is one of the 5 national parks in India.
My favorite National Park is in the state of Maine in the USA. It is where the Mountains touch the Ocean. It was the first National Park I enjoyed on my own. I have taken my family there and hope to return in the future. 🥾❤️🥾
In Guizhou, China, my favorite park is Qianlingshan Park.
Qianling Mountain signboard one is the most prosperous incense Hongfu Temple, one is free-range wild macaque, can be seen everywhere, many people are to Sun Wukong to come. There is a monkey mountain, the Monkey King on the mountain more noisy than sparrows, but compared with childhood, now the Monkey King is indeed a lot less, at least two-thirds less. If you want to see Sun Wukong, it is best to go to the lunch point at noon and in the afternoon, because there are many uncles who spontaneously organize to feed the monkeys, they shout at the foot of the mountain, there are groups of macaques down the mountain around them to eat, it is spectacular.
What a great interview!
I like the Harz National Park. I like to go hiking there. There are lots of great places to discover in the Harz.
I absolutely love this style. As a graphic designer, I can appreciate the colors and the bold graphic style and old-timey feel. It brings a sense of warmth and nostalgia to this world which desperately needs it.
My favourite or nearest National park is Silent Valley National park in India, Kerala..
A dedicated Miniature sheet was released on Silent Valley National Park by the India post
It is a reserve area and home to a wide range of species of animals, plants, birds and butterflies..
Belgium is small, so we don´t have that many National Parks, but my favorite one is National Park Bosland.
The Netherlands has many beautiful national parks, but I think one of the most beautiful is National Park De Hoge Veluwe!
Beautiful - thank you for the article!
In Germany I particularly like the Kellerwald-Edersee National Park - you can enjoy yourself in the awesome large lake and you have really huge beech forests, just beautiful!
My favourite park in Spain is not a national park, but the "Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park". Although I don't recommend you to visit it in the summer, because it can be really hot!
Thanks for the interesting article :)
My favourite is Purnululu National Park in the north of Western Australia (aka. Bungle Bungle ranges). It is filled with enourmous bee-hive shaped rock monoliths and has an other-worldly ancient feel. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site but has been home to the aboriginal people for over 20,000 years.
These look beautiful and fun!! I love to visit toe Grand Canyon, it is breathtaking in its splendor and sheer size!!
Thanks for the article.
Greenwich Park is my favorite in Prince Edward Island.
And I also really love the Cape Breton in Nova Scotia.
Yosemite National Park, USA :) Thanks for the great info! I love the Legends series!
Very beautiful and interesting postcards!🤩 My favorite national park is Koli's national park in Finland! :)
National parc "hoge Veluwe" in The Netherlands is very beautiful. Have you already been there?
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