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Publication Services
Magazine design influenced by the NPS Graphic Identity program

Magazine design influenced by the NPS Graphic Identity program.

  

Besides its publishing program, Harpers Ferry Center offers a variety of services to parks regarding their own publishing programs. Whether the publication you have in mind is a site bulletin, rack card, business card, or report, we’ll be glad to help you get started.

Park-Produced Publications

The site bulletin program, begun in the early 1980s by Harpers Ferry Center, has been updated and incorporated into the NPS Graphic Identity Program. Site bulletin standards and formats make your publication easier to produce and give it structure and coherence. See the Park-Produced Publications section of this website for information, tools, and templates. Park-Produced Publications »

Review by HFC Staff

Harpers Ferry Center is always glad to review your park-produced publications. We’ll look at them with an eye to your local needs and to National Park Service graphic standards. These standards play the same role in interpretive media that the National Park Service uniform plays for personal contacts with the public. A strong visual identity speaks with authority, conveys an organizational unity, and creates expectations of high quality in information provided to the public. NPS Graphic Identity Program »

Training

The Harpers Ferry Center Interpretive Media Institute (IMI) provides media knowledge, standards, and professional learning opportunities to National Park Service parks, programs, and partners. Among the many training opportunities sponsored through IMI is a week-long "Producing NPS Publications" class. This class teaches the skills required to design, develop, and produce site bulletins, newspapers, rack cards, and related print materials. The class is led by both experienced park staff and publications specialists from Harpers Ferry Center, and involves hands-on use of professional page layout and image management software. HFC Interpretive Media Institute »

Consulting

We serve as consultants to park staffs who need advice on editorial, cartographic, or graphic design matters or on typical costs of producing and printing a publication. Graphics-related questions might be about design, photo sources, formats, pre-press production, printing, and map production. Or you may have text-related concerns about writing, editing, style, or how to select outside editors and writers. We have found it helpful to put parks in touch with other parks who have already dealt with publication issues such as foreign language publications, large-print publications, and the standards of the NPS Graphic Identity Program. Sometimes we can steer you away from making a costly mistake or suggest how you might get a product that is as good or better for less work or less money. Please don’t hesitate to contact us. Our staff will direct you to the best person to answer your question. Contact Us »

HFC Editorial Style Guide

Our HFC Editorial Style Guide can answer many questions about usage, nonbiased language, punctuation, capitalization, and a number of other topics. HFC Editorial Style Guide (January 2007 - PDF)

Standards for Digital Image Files

This document provides guidelines for selecting or preparing digital photographic image files for use in the production of various types of interpretive media. Standards for Digital Image Files (December 2006 - PDF)

  
Author: Harpers Ferry Center
Last Updated: Tuesday, 30-Sep-2008 10:24:51 Eastern Daylight Time
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