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Design Category
Information design, 1995
Design firm
National Park Service Interpretive Design Center (Harpers Ferry, West Virginia)
Collection
(1996) Information Graphics: Design of Understanding
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National park guides tell stories to visitors using a variety of media — from outdoor signage to visitor center exhibits, audiovisual presentations, printed materials, and oral presentations delivered by park personnel. The National Park Service staff discovered that a handbook was the most effective way to communicate a complex story like the one behind the first publicly funded thoroughfare to the western frontier — a 184-mile towpath that runs along the Potomac from Cumberland, Maryland, to Washington, D.C.