Posters for Portland Parks
A Portland Parks Foundation 20th anniversary initiative.
In 2021, PPF proudly unveiled eight beautiful 20th Anniversary Portland parks posters, produced by local artists. In 2022, two more posters were commission to support our Joey Pope Award Fund. Check out all ten posters and the story of how they were created, below.
Poster design by Jax Chow https://www.jaxchow.com/
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Poster design by Carson Ellis https://www.carsonellis.com/
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Hoyt Arboretum, portrayed by Carson Ellis, featuring an awestruck child in the towering cedars.
Leach Botanical Garden, which offers a sumptuous collage of the flora and pollinators that illustrator Jax Cho and her children encountered in their many visits.
Hoyt and Leach are the two Portland places our founding board chair, Joey Pope, most impacted through her advocacy and philanthropy. We are devoting all sales proceeds to the Joey Pope Fund for Parks Leadership. Learn more about the poster project.
The other 20th Anniversary posters are still available. Grow your collection to 10 beautiful park posters!
Poster designed by Nancy Flecha
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Poster designed by Jax Ko
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Poster design by Jodie Beechem, https://www.jodiebeechem.com/
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Poster designed by Dorothy Siemens
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Poster designed by Tekpatl
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Poster design by Allie Yacina, https://www.allieyacina.com/
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Poster design by Zach Pranji,
https://zacpranji.com/
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Poster design by Studio Dad,
https://studiodad.biz/
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With these posters, we commemorate seven classic Portland parks—Peninsula, Laurelhurst, Mt. Tabor, Cully, Luuwit View, Cathedral and Alberta—plus the Wildwood Trail, each with a poster by a leading Portland designer printed in two versions:
A 28” x 21.5” offset lithograph, available for $30 here
A limited edition, 19 1/2-by-26-inch, 4-color silkscreen, printed by the renowned master printers at Mullowney Printing Company, is available to donors who join the Charles Jordan Circle of Parks Foundation Supporters. Go here for more information.
Luke’s Frame Shop is offering a generous 15% discount on framing for your poster!
Watch these videos to learn about the posters, process, and designers from the first round:
The designs
PPF worked with Design Portland to create a diverse jury and outreach strategy to reach the city’s leading designers. Ninety-seven applied. Our jury selected four. And then we worked with them to select a park. You can meet each of the designers in these videos.
The prints
As we were just getting started, John Miller—a classic Oregonian mix of environmentalist, entrepreneur, winemaker, and parks fan—came to us with an idea: why not do a special edition of the posters with Mullowney Printing Company, a renowned master printer who just established a studio in Portland, among other reasons, to work with the Pacific Northwest College of Art.
With John’s generous support, designers and printer got to work. The result: four extraordinary four-color silk-screen-printed parks posters.
More about the initial process
Inspired by WPA-era National Parks posters, the Portland Trailblazers Game Day series, and many other great poster traditions, the Portland Parks Foundation (PPF) invited Portland designers to create limited-edition posters for Portland parks as a part of the Foundation’s 20th anniversary celebration in 2021.