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(CNN Travel) — The first time Rob Decker visited a national park, he was 6. Yosemite National Park, with its towering sequoias, crystalline lakes and rugged Sierra Nevada mountains, already held both historical and personal significance for Decker...
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Newsweek Father's Day Gift Guide
Get your dad a beautiful, nostalgic poster of an American national park by photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker. All posters are numbered, dated and signed, and printed on "Conservation," a 100% recycled paper stock with soy-based inks.
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Why Rob Decker is on a mission to photograph every National Park
It’s safe to say Colorado photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker knows a thing or two about America’s national parks. Studying under famed photographer Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park at age 19 sparked a passion in Decker for the park system, which has inspired his creative work ever since...
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America's Parks in Nostalgic Print
Artist and photographer Rob Decker's nostalgic posters of America's national parks celebrate the history of our public lands...
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Behind the Lens
Rob Decker, a photographer and graphic artist, was just 19 years old when he studied under the famed Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. Today, he’s created some of the most stunning, nostalgic, and wanderlust-worthy posters of the national parks. We went behind the scenes of some of the most stunning national park posters with the man who created them...
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Perfect Focus
We turned to Colorado photographer Rob Decker, who studied under Ansel Adams and has launched a project shooting all of the national parks, for tips on composition, gear, and more....
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Epic Photos Reveal Big Bend’s Splendor in Black and White
Rob Decker and his wife, Marceia, arrived in Big Bend National Park in April 2017 with the goal of capturing a single iconic photograph for the centerpiece of a poster he was designing. Decker found plenty of options: He says he was taken aback by the craggy peaks of the Chisos Mountains and the remoteness of the desert....
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History and nature go hand in hand
Photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker revisits and re-creates the style of these iconic WPA posters through his unique and modern take on what has become a wholly American style of art....
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Frame This: Must-Have National Park Art
Colorado-based photographer and graphic designer Rob Decker has been shooting the national parks since the ripe age of eight years old, on black and white film through the lens of his first Kodak. At nineteen, he apprenticed under the famed Ansel Adams in Yosemite, and has been capturing the magic of America’s landscapes ever since...
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Check out artist’s nostalgic posters of Yosemite and dozens of other national parks, A-Z
A photographer and graphic designer from Northern California is creating nostalgic posters of all of America’s national parks in a style inspired by the Works Progress Administration artwork of the 1930s and 1940s...
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These Retro Posters Inspire Nostalgia for our National Parks
Photographer Rob Decker pays homage to America’s treasures with vintage-style posters...
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Real Simple Holiday Gift Guide
Perfect gifts for any time of the year, Rob's National Park Posters were featured in Real Simple's 2018 Holiday Gift Guide.
A Colorado Photographer Walks In Footsteps Of Role Model, Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams had a huge influence on Robert Decker. When he was 19, Decker studied under the famous landscape photographer in Yosemite National Park. Decker now lives in Nederland. His latest endeavor is called "The National Park Poster Project," a collection of retro-style posters for all 59 national parks. He hopes to finish the project by the end of the summer to commemorate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary. Decker spoke with Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner.
Listen to the Colorado Public Radio interview here...
10 thoughtful gifts make earth day more festive
Colorado-based photographer and graphic designer Rob Decker studied under Ansel Adams, and has spent the past 50 years exploring and photographing “America’s best idea”—partly to raise awareness for the continued protection and operation of all national parks...
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The Best National Parks Posters: A new generation of classic national parks posters are frame-worthy
Rob Decker studied under Ansel Adams and in 1980 began taking his own composite photography of the parks. He adds WPA-style effects to give his versions a vintage look...
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Local Artist Recreates National Parks Posters for the Centennial
You don’t have to visit a national park this month in order to celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th birthday—though we’ll jump at any reason to explore Colorado’s great outdoors. But if you simply can’t make it to the trails, you can still bring them home with you thanks to Longmont-based artist Rob Decker’s National Park Posters Project...
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A Photographer’s Journey to Capture the Wonder of America’s National Parks
A fan of the artistic style popularized by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the ’30s and ’40s, Rob modeled his work for the wedding on those colorfully nostalgic prints and developed a method for digitally transforming composite HDR photographs into retro-inspired works of graphic art...
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Artist creating posters for every national park visits Cuyahoga Valley
Is it possible to capture America's sprawling National Parks in a single image? Colorado-based artist Rob Decker is on a mission to create posters for every one of the 59 throughout the country as part of his National Park Poster project...
Read the full Cleveland Plain Dealer story here...
We're obsessed with these vintage-style National Park posters
Rob Decker has been making memories in our national parks since he was six years old. Now he’s combining his passions for photography, graphic design, and national parks, to transfer those experiences into National Park posters, stylized after the Works Progress Administration era....
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Big Blend Radio: National Park Posters by Photographer Robert Decker
For the past fifty years, Colorado photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker has traveled across the country, exploring and photographing the places that have inspired Americans for generations. Now he’s on a journey to create iconic images of all 60 national parks. Each reminiscent of the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and 40s, his images are designed to celebrate our American heritage, and are available as posters, postcards and canvas prints.....
Listen the full Big Blend Radio interview here...
An Iconic Look at our National Parks
For the past fifty years, Colorado photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker has traveled across the country, exploring and photographing the places that have inspired Americans for generations. Now he’s on a journey to create iconic images of all 60 national parks. Each reminiscent of the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s and 40s, his images are designed to celebrate our American heritage, and are available as posters, postcards and canvas prints.....
Read the full Colorado Country Life story here...
The Forgotten History of Those Iconic National Parks Posters
The Works Projects Administration (WPA), originally the Works Progress Administration, was the largest and most ambitious agency in FDR's New Deal. The WPA appropriated 6.7 percent of the country's GDP in 1935—$4.9 billion—to hire millions of unemployed people for public works projects. WPA workers constructed buildings. They built roads and bridges across the nation. The agency also became a patron of the arts, hiring writers, musicians, painters, actors and directors for large scale artistic productions and programs. And they made posters. Lots of posters...
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A Poster for Every Park
In the summer of 1979 Robert Decker (Comm’84) studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. The life-changing experience united his emerging love of photography with his awe of America’s wild places...
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This Artist Created Vintage-Style Posters For Every National Park
Rob Decker is a graphic artist and photographer who has spent over 50 years visiting the national parks in the U.S. When he was only 19 years old, he had the lucky opportunity to study under the renowned photographer Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. He’s now captured all of our country’s most iconic landscapes, from Delicate Arch in Utah to the wilderness in the Everglades, and designed them into original posters in the style of the historic WPA artwork from the 1930s and ’40s...
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National Park Poster Project: Q & A with Artist Rob Decker
A photographer and graphic artist living in Colorado, Rob Decker is working on creating WPA-style posters for all of our national parks. Recently, I had the opportunity to talk with him about his national park poster project...
Read the full Good Nature Habitat interview here...
Poster project captures beauty of nation's parks
When Rob Decker was just a teen, he studied under famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in Yosemite National Park. It was a turning point for the 19-year-old. “I was a little awestruck,” Decker said. “It was the experience that solidified my love of the national parks and photography.”...
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Artist creates a WPA-style National Parks series
The WPA-style artwork from photographer and graphic artist Rob Decker are featured in a series of National Park Posters, original prints by the Colorado-based photographer and graphic designer who, for the past 50 years, has been exploring and photographing America’s National Parks, from Arches National Park to the Lighthouse at Bass Harbor at Acadia National Park...
Read the full Napa Valley Register story here...
National Nostalgia
In this unresolved age where global warming continues to pose as a serious threat, and trash remains abundant, we are called to evaluate what is truly important. Reflecting on the natural beauty of our untouched landscapes reconnects us with Mother Earth. The natural landscapes which expand across the globe stand for beauty and serenity. To have such vast, and untouched terrain in America, our National Parks preserve feelings of sentiment....
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Sticker Giant Podcast
This week we welcome Rob Decker from National Park posters. He is the founder of the company as well as the artist creating the designs. All his posters are printed on recycled domestically produced materials and use nature friendly soy based inks. Along with the posters, his designs are available on larger artist canvases and as postcards. Now he has his first sticker, which we talk more about...
Listen to the Sticker Giant podcast here...
Original Iconic American National Parks Posters
For the past 50 years, Rob has been exploring and photographing America’s National Parks. And the WPA-style images he creates showcase some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes - the iconic Delicate Arch at Arches National Park, the Lighthouse at Bass Harbor at Acadia National Park, the Rugged Landscapes of Badlands National Park and many more! Rob is on a journey to create iconic images of all 60 National Parks - partly to raise awareness for the continued protection and operation of the parks and also to help establish the next generation of National Park supporters...
Read the Luxury Travel Magazine story here...
The Park Catalog
How One Man Created a Kickstarter Project to Recreate Classic WPA-Style National Park Posters
You’ve seen those incredible, iconic posters of national parks. The ones with the cool retro lettering and pastel colors. But did you know there were actually only 14 of these posters created for our national parks? Rob Decker, founder of National Park Posters, wants to change all that. His mission is to continue the legacy of documenting our beautiful national parks with the same motif started by artists working for the Works Progress Administration back in the 1930s...
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Fire Island News
National Parks Celebrated in Posters
Rob Decker is a photographer and graphic artist with a great big passion for the National Parks. He’s currently three years in on his National Park Poster Project to create posters and postcards of each National Park in the WPA style, popular in the late 1930s and early 1940s...
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RVFTA.com
National Park Poster Giveaway
Check out these WPA style National Park Posters by artist Robert Decker...
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Seattleite
Celebrating our sacred land with beautiful wall art
Check out stunning National Park Posters that feature the WPA-style artwork of photographer/graphic artist Rob Decker. The Colorado-based talent, who studied under Ansel Adams in Yosemite when he was just 19, is now on a journey to create iconic images of all 60 National Parks...
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Richard Magazine
Photographer Rob Decker Creates Vintage-Inspired National Parks Posters
Rob Decker has a lifetime of passion for and knowledge about America’s National Parks. Now, he is turning his own 50+ year experiences of exploring and photographing the nation’s finest natural destinations into a special kind of art. Richard Magazine spoke with the photographer and graphic artist, who, in an effort to connect the next generation of park supporters with his own art and imagery, has created vibrant and beautiful artworks that pay tribute to these captivating places across the land...
Read the full story in Richard Magazine here...
Mad Art Lab
Get Into the Great Wide Open
This one’s a work in progress! Rob Decker has visited and photographed 43 of our 59 national parks. He then digitally transforms his composite HDR photos into posters reminiscent of the style created by the WPA. And you’ll want to see these photographic transformations… he studied under Ansel Adams!
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OutdoorX4
Renowned Photographer Rob Decker Creates New National Park Posters
Colorado-based photographer and graphic designer Rob Decker has recently released a new WPA-style series of National Park posters highlighting the grandeur of the 60 National Parks throughout the United States...
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