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We were very sad to hear that our favorite local BBQ joint Hog Heaven will be closing forever on November 27, 2019. Spirit of Nashville was created to celebrate the history and charm of Music City... to showcase and honor the iconic people and establishments that make Nashville unique. One of our first posters in the original Spirit of Nashville collection featured Hog Heaven—a tiny little BBQ shack 2 blocks from Anderson Design Group. We started our company in 1993 and moved to our current neighborhood shortly after that. From the beginning, we were drawn to the aroma of hickory smoked ribs and the...

“Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” -Amy Lowell We often find it tricky to nail down our feelings and emotions about vintage travel poster art. But that quote by Amy Lowell is a good start. Anderson Design Group was created to foster a collective of artists dedicated to preserving the traditions of vintage travel poster art. Joel Anderson spearheaded the mission, starting the design firm in his attic with a business partner in 1993. Since then, our group has grown to include several...

Established in 1938 by Franklin D Roosevelt, Olympic was the nation's 21st National Park, founded on Washington's rugged northwest peninsula and named after 7,980' Mount Olympus. It is an International Biosphere Reserve and a World Heritage Site, two designations granted to the park due to a rich geography that includes hundreds of species of animals (including over 300 species of birds) and over 1,100 species of plants. The park's distinct ecosystems create a range of diversity rarely found elsewhere: a rugged coastline, glacier-capped mountains, forests, and rivers. The peninsula's diversity attracted –and kept– pre-historic humans, who hunted mastodon with stone-tipped spears as far back as 12,000 years ago, supplementing their diet with deer, elk, and gathered plants. Fish, marine mammals, and shellfish were provided by the...

"Southern, is to feel, well, something special even in the quiet, something fine in itself after all those rebel yells and fight songs have finally faded into silence. This is a place where grandmothers hold babies on their laps under the stars and whisper in their ears that the lights in the sky are holes in the floor of heaven." -Rick BraggMaybe you were born and raised in the South. Or perhaps you moved here from somewhere else (probably from somewhere much colder, right?) Or maybe you've just been visiting and taking in the southern hospitality and kindness. But no...