Anderson Design Group specializes in the Art of Adventure: travel poster art inspired by the world’s most interesting and beautiful destinations; plus the plants, animals, buildings, and iconic landmarks associated with those destinations.
For over 20 years, we have been making original art and art-inspired gifts that are unique, meaningful, and from the heart. Everything we create is human-made right here in the United States, with no Artificial Intelligence involved, ever.
If you’re looking for unique, interesting, and inspiring gifts this holiday season, check out over 3,000 original illustrations, our beautiful coffee table books, or our games, puzzles, guides, calendars, stickers, activity kits, home accents, apparel, and more.
To view the most popular and best-selling selections in one place, read on for this year’s essential Holiday Shopper Guide.
The Essential Holiday Shopping Guide
We are a small but mighty team here at Anderson Design Group, and we sell thousands of original illustrations as prints, posters, canvases, metal signs, notecards, postcards, and puzzles. On top of that, we have hundreds of other products inspired by our art.
To make this article a true guide, we first spent the summer sifting through our inventory. Then we hand-selected our most popular, best-selling, and best-reviewed art and products. Then we organized those selections into three categories:
- Special Gifts You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
- Our Personal Favorites for 2026
- Gifts for That Special Someone Who is More Than a Little Difficult to Shop For
Enjoy perusing the special gifts, designs, souvenirs, and products. If you have any questions, check out our Holiday FAQ page, and always feel free to reach out.
(And don’t forget to sign up for our email list to be the first to hear about sales, new product releases, and fun updates from our art studio).
Chiricahua... America's Newest National Park!
Before we get into our chosen categories for this year, we have to introduce a new series of poster art that is sure to be a best-seller and the best Christmas gift you can give the national park enthusiast in your life: art of Chiricahua National Park!
America's newest national park is a site to behold. Welcome to a panoramic paradise of natural stone spires, towers, and mesas. Chiricahua National Park is a 12,025-acre protected area located in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona.
Chiricahua is a magical "Wonderland of Rocks" with an 8-mile paved scenic drive and 17-miles of day-use hiking trails. Located approximately 36 miles southeast of Willcox, Arizona, the national park preserves the remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region eons ago.
Accessible by car or on foot, this park boasts numerous hiking trails, camping opportunities, and star-filled night skies, providing visitors with the chance to step out of their urban sanctuaries and into a remote wilderness of stone pinnacles, balanced rocks, and a diverse desert ecosystem nestled between two soaring mountain ranges. Visitors enjoy viewing wildlife, rock formations, and desert plants like yuccas, agaves, prickly pear, and hedgehog cactus.
Quoting the National Park Service in their press release announcing the new park:
“Chiricahua National Monument has officially been redesignated as a national park, becoming America’s 64th national park. Known as the 'Wonderland of Rocks,' this spectacular Arizona landscape was shaped by massive volcanic eruptions and millions of years of erosion, creating the towering rock pinnacles that define Chiricahua today. Beyond its iconic rock formations, Chiricahua National Park is rich in biodiversity and human history. Its diverse habitats support an incredible variety of plants and wildlife, while its stories span thousands of years, from Indigenous peoples and Chiricahua Apaches to Buffalo Soldiers, pioneers, ranchers and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The designation is new, but the wonder isn’t. Chiricahua has been an extraordinary place for generations, and its new status recognizes a landscape that has long inspired awe.”
We are so excited to visit this new national park and create more art of it!
And without further ado, on to the best art and gifts for 2026!
Special Gifts You Won’t Find Anywhere Else
These are special gifts you won’t find anywhere else, one-of-a-kind items that will surely earn you the title of “Best Gift Giver of the Year.”
Postcards that take you back to a time when heartfelt sentiments were shared by mail. In an age of instant communication, postcards are experiencing a personal renaissance. Maybe it sounds strange to say something that travels by snail mail has gone viral, but that’s exactly what’s happened with ADG’s postcards, or, as we like to call them, “pocket-sized posters.”
One-of-a-kind gift sets for the young explorer in your life. We have a variety of gift sets featuring products and art-inspired stickers, guides, coloring books, and other items that pair well. Check out one of our 3-piece gift sets. We have one for Junior Rangers, Legends of the National Parks enthusiasts, and Space Travel fans.
Unique national park adventure guides that will inspire travel and exploration. The 63-Park National Park Adventure Guide Book and our Legends Of The National Parks Guide Book are two of our top best-selling products. These books are must-haves for any adventure in the national parks, offering essential information on each park, activities, points of interest to keep an eye out for, and potentially spooky or bizarre beasts, legends, ghosts, and mythical creatures that may be residing in the parks.
Stickers like you’ve never seen them before. Back by popular demand, ADG just put out a new run of sturdy, full-color stickers. High-quality vinyl stickers are perfect for car or camper bumpers, coolers, guitar & gear cases, lockers, notebooks, luggage, and more. These beauties make great gifts and stocking stuffers, and they look great anywhere while staying incredibly durable and strong. They’re also great for collecting and trading.
Best-selling coffee table books that are beautiful to look at, fun to read, and great for conversation starters and centerpieces. If you can’t decide what poster design to get for your loved one, a coffee table book is a superb backup plan. ADG offers several coffee table books in both softcover and hardcover. Each features dozens of full-page posters, dozens of pages of helpful text, travel tips, must-sees, points of interest, photographs, notes, and information on the artistic process and how the art is made.
Art of the Legends of the National Parks and Mythical Creatures Around the World. In 2022, ADG Founder and Creative Director Joel Anderson was inspired to create art of mythical creatures and other cryptic, mysterious beings and folklore monsters he and our other artists had heard about during their adventures in the national parks and on many international travels around the world. This collection of art and products is dedicated to spooky myths and legends.
Our Personal Favorites for 2026
To be fair, we like all of our art and products, but the following are our favorite selections for 2026:
One of our favorite products is actually a category: The “Build-Your-Own” category. We love this category of best-selling art products because it puts the customer in the driver’s seat and lets them get a little creative with how they receive their ADG art. Check out this year’s build-your-own lineup here.
Activity Kits. What do you get when you bring together poster artists, nature, family-friendly board games, and activity kits that celebrate America’s National Parks? This year we added a new offering to our “Games” section: super fun activity kits! Our artists collaborated with Masterpieces Puzzles and Games to develop a whole line of creative, educational, and fun activities from memory games to board games to paint by numbers and more.
Home Accents. In 2023, we introduced the Home Accents Collection just in time for the holidays and cooler months, and these products were among the season’s most trending gifts and best national park gifts. In addition to decorating your walls with our prints, you can now add comfort and adventure to any room with our high-quality, beautifully printed accent pillows and blankets. We love these products and wanted to include them in our “best gifts for Christmas 2026” category.
Puzzles… of EVERY design we've created! Another big advance we made in 2026 was to finally offer 500-piece and 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzles for EVERY design we sell. That’s right, you can now order any of our over 3,000 original poster designs as a jigsaw puzzle and assemble it with your family and friends. Just shop the art, pick your favorite design, and add it to your cart as a puzzle.
Beyond the National Parks, our newest coffee table book! Finally, a book that takes the reader on the paths less traveled. Beyond the National Parks is a one-of-a-kind coffee table book and travel guide featuring over 115 original posters, plus archival photos, historical information, trip-planning tips, facts, and a map of the USA. Bonus features include a section on the people who made the parks possible, a fact sheet showcasing the sheer diversity of ecosystems preserved within the National Park System, and compelling narratives about the historical events that, when woven together, tell America’s incredible story.
Coloring Books Galore! Who says you have to be a kid to enjoy a coloring book? For kids and adults alike, we added several new coloring books to our Books category. We also added a coloring book 2027 wall calendar!
Holiday Gift Ideas for that Hard-to-Shop-For Loved One
Anderson Design Group poster art is featured on every continent except Antarctica. Our art adorns the office walls of foreign dignitaries, consulates, and embassies worldwide, and you can find our posters in thousands of homes in dozens of countries around the world.
That universal popularity is why, when one of our customers has a friend or loved one who is difficult to shop for, they come to us first. We’ve listed several items below that are perfect for the hard-to-shop-for loved one.
Bargain Bundle Print Sets:
ADG staff gathered bargain bundles and grab bags of randomly selected posters to create fun, exciting mystery assortments of original art. Think of these as a mystery box, except it’s a mystery arrangement of quality poster art!
The bundle sets are only available for a limited time, so order a grab bag for that difficult-to-shop-for family member or friend! We currently have four options in stock:
12-Piece Bargain Bundle of 8“x10” and 11“x14” prints includes an assortment of 12 popular designs (6 of each size). You’ll find a random assortment of designs from our most popular collections—World Travel, American Travel, Coastal, Lake & Lodge, National Monuments, and more.
5-Piece Mystery Bargain Bundles. Each bundle includes an assortment of 5 randomly picked designs from our various collections. In it, you’ll find a selection of our favorite ready-to-frame World Travel, American Travel, Coastal, Lake & Lodge, National Monuments, and many other lovely posters.
5-Piece Mystery National Park Bundle. We recently found a treasure trove of slightly irregular 18“x24” National Park prints—all waiting for a loving home.
10-Piece Bargain Bundle of 11“x14” prints includes an assortment of 10 popular Music City designs. Our poster grab bag features 10 beautiful 11“x14” Nashville prints that we’ve rescued from our archives.
Best Selling Items:
With 3,000+ original posters and counting, it’s understandable that finding the right poster for a difficult-to-shop-for loved one can be challenging. Thankfully, the Best Sellers page is routinely updated to reflect the most popular ADG posters! Follow in the footsteps of our happy customers who have already bought and loved these items, and choose a best-selling poster for your gift recipient.
The Iconic Wall Calendar that Combines Art and Utility:
One of ADG’s best-selling items is the original wall calendar. Gorgeous, designed in-house, and featuring original ADG art, these beauties are 10” x 13” when open and enhance a space while staying practical and useful.
Printed on gallery-grade paper, sturdy, equipped with a wire spine for easy flipping, and a pre-cut 1/8” hole for easy hanging, the calendars are a sensible and aesthetic gift for the practical, art-appreciating loved one in your family.
Also, for 2027, we went above and beyond by creating not 10, not 11, not 12, but fourteen new calendar options!
The Most Popular National Park Adventure Guide in the World:
Our single best-selling and most popular product is undoubtedly our National Park Adventure Guide. The guide is fun, immersive, interactive, and educational. Featuring art from all 63 National Parks, the guide is an excellent walk-through of the U.S. parks, with tips and information, space for note-taking, room to stamp each park when traveling through park visitor centers, and more.
Measuring 5” x 7” and including stickers of each National Park, the guide is the perfect gift for someone who loves National Parks, travel, adventure, hiking, backpacking, and getting outdoors.
ArtoVision Shadowbox Art and Desktop Art:
These products are truly one-of-a-kind, interesting, and fun to look at. A father-and-son business from Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Artovision was born out of a love for 80s video games and classic Americana. Their handmade, vividly-eye-catching shadowboxes are a celebration of pop culture and nostalgic design.
ArtoVision also makes desktop art! They create collectible artwork for your home and office space inspired by pop culture and retro entertainment. Each desktop art piece is printed on 3/4” thick optical-grade acrylic with vibrant UV-cured inks and measures 4 1/2" x 6".
We Hope You Have an Incredible Holiday Season
From our family to yours, we hope your 2026 holiday season is everything you dreamed of and more. Thank you so much for supporting our small family business. With just five employees at our humble Nashville art studio, everything we imagine, create, and sell is 100% organic and unique to our design and illustration print shop. We print our posters on-site and on demand. Our gifts, toys, puzzles, playing cards, apparel, home accents, books, calendars, and home decor are made in the USA.
“And we don’t use AI, either,” says Joel Anderson, ADG founder and Creative Director. “Everything we create is real art made by real artists for real art & travel lovers. We hope you can see and feel the quality that goes into our American-made prints, books, and gifts. And we hope you enjoy our original creations as much as we have enjoyed producing them!”
We also donate travel posters and books to local charities, which sell them at silent auctions to raise funds for their ongoing work. It is also our deepest privilege to donate 10% of our annual profits to several non-profit organizations, including the National Park Foundation. Proceeds from your purchases also improve the lives of battered women, people experiencing homelessness, wildlife, and students pursuing careers in the visual arts.
We’ll keep making art, and we thank you again for supporting our small family business. We couldn’t do what we love without you.
Have a fantastic Christmas and holiday season!
-Ren Brabenec
Anderson Design Group Staff Writer