River to Ridge Run CLub

Pending Approval

Teresa Pond

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River to Ridge run club will be a community running club, focused on bringing people together and building a community through running in the outdoors, for all paces and levels. My goal is to create a welcoming community to get people outside and to see all of the places in Chattanooga to spend time outside doing something that I personally love so much. The project would be located in Chattanooga in areas that would get a lot of people there, such as areas like the riverwalk, Coolidge Park, Sterchi Farms, the battlefield, and other places that Chattanooga has created for people to accessible places in Chattanooga to get outside....

Create a vintage WPA-era national park poster illustration of a community project in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a National Park City surrounded by mountains, rivers, and forests.

Composition: Vertical 4:5 poster layout. Bold foreground focal element representing the project. Use either a natural landscape or urban environment, depending on the subject.

Title: Ridge Run CLub
Subtitle: National Park City

Typography: National park sans-serif, bold font. Sans serifs feel the pull of the Machine Age. Rough, worn, and perfectly imperfect. The individual letterforms do not strictly abide by all typographic rules, but this intentional imperfection adds to its charm. This typeface feels as if it was drawn by hand, just like the hand lettering in the vintage National Park posters. Just the title and subtitle, NO OTHER TEXT in the graphic.

Focus the composition on the project. "River to Ridge run club will be a community running club, focused on bringing people together and building a community through running in the outdoors, for all paces and levels. My goal is to create a welcoming community to get people outside and to see all of the places in Chattanooga to spend time outside doing something that I personally love so much. The project would be located in Chattanooga in areas that would get a lot of people there, such as areas like the riverwalk, Coolidge Park, Ste". Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

Style: WPA-era screenprinted travel poster. Bold graphic composition, simplified shapes, warm earthy color palette, dramatic light and shadow, mid-century screen print texture, minimal detail but strong silhouettes, layered depth, optimistic and heroic tone, clean vector illustration, retro travel poster design, subtle paper grain texture.

Area Geography: Chattanooga is defined by a dramatic transition from flat river basins to towering plateaus. It features sheer granite and sandstone cliff faces (famous for rock climbing) and hidden subterranean wonders like Ruby Falls. Just west of the Great Smoky Mountains, sharing that iconic blue-mist horizon.

Native wildlife and flora: box turtles, white-tailed deer, red-tailed hawks, eastern bluebirds, tulip poplars, dogwoods, rhododendrons, and mountain laurel.

Activities: Pick activities relevant to the project. People here enjoy mountain biking, hiking, rock climbing, kayaking, paddleboarding, trail running, fishing, rollerblading, white water rafting, and community gardening. Weave relevant activities and local nature into the scene.

City life: Chattanooga's urban core is compact, walkable, and layered — historic brick warehouses, Art Deco civic buildings, modern glass infill, pedestrian bridges, riverfront paths, and steep green bluffs all within a small footprint.

Flora & Water: The landscape is carpeted in dense deciduous forests of oak, hickory, and tulip poplars. No pine trees. Hidden in the folds of the rolling hills are moss-covered rolling brooks, limestone swimming holes, and tiered waterfalls that spill over rocky ledges.

Typography: National park sans-serif, bold font. Sans serifs feel the pull of the Machine Age. Rough, worn, and perfectly imperfect. The individual letterforms do not strictly abide by all typographic rules, but this intentional imperfection adds to its charm. This typeface feels as if it was drawn by hand, just like the hand lettering in the vintage National Park posters. Just the title and subtitle, no other text in the graphic.

Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

Chattanooga is the perfect place for this, and we already have so many built-in resources, such as the riverwalk, the battlefield, and Sterchi farms. We have so many local park areas and trail systems, it's time that we get them into more use. People want to build community and be outside. In this run club, we will focus on being the bridge between both. Right now is the perfect time to build community and get outside in our beautiful city.

Budget

$1500

Obstacles

Potential pitfalls could be getting people to join because people can often be scared to go to something new where they dont know what to expect so to improve this problem we will set clear expectations of what the club intels. Safety is another concern because with the variation of places and trails it is easy for somebody to fall or get injured. While not preventable we can try to ensure that there are clear routes and we are prepared with supplies such as a first aid kit and we know the protocols in an emergency. Another potential pitfall could be keeping the club consistent and building a team of volunteers, getting sponsors, and preventing burnout because people could be sparked at first to do it, but you could only get so many people involved and those people could get burnt out from doing too much. To try to prevent this we would have to be intentional about timing and do what works best for the people.

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