About Forest City Designs

My name is Todd Cummings, I am an artist, photographer, designer, and native Vermonter who loves the outdoors and all that it offers the body and soul. My Vermont, travel style prints and cards are inspired by the limitless beauty of the natural world and the incredible outdoor destinations in the northeast and specifically, the Green Mountain State. I have a keen appreciation for landscape painting, both modern and historical, along with the Works Progress Administration (WPA) posters from the '30s and '40s and the illustrated travel poster genre of yesteryear. My digital illustrations are a modern fusion of these influences. My process begins with a specific destination or memory of an outdoor place that I love. A mountain I have hiked, a lake or river I have paddled and fished, or woods I have skied or rambled. Being a realist, I compose each piece with authentic detail, sketching and photographing multiple views until I am satisfied with the composition. I then simplify my renderings, reducing landscape details in favor of graphically bold fields of color and strong silhouettes. My illustrated Vermont travel posters are printed using the giclée technique. Giclée is a fine art and photo printing on professional-grade inkjet printers using archival-quality papers, inks, and processes. Read their story