Case Study · Infographic & Interactive Design

Ohio State Parks, Made Interactive

An original vector infographic — all 75 Ohio State Parks, drawn county by county and grouped into five regions — rebuilt into an interactive map you can explore. Click a region to see its parks, track what's completed versus ready to visit, and tie in place-based artwork from the trail.

Project

Personal — CreativePalmer / outdoor series

My Role

Vector illustration, data design, front-end build

Built With

Illustrator · SVG · HTML/CSS/JS

Scope

75 parks · 5 regions · 88 counties

Try It

Pick a region

Every county was drawn as its own vector shape, then grouped into the five state-park regions. Select a region on the map to filter the park list, see the counts, and open any park for detail.

Ready to visit ★ Completed Colors = the five poster regions

Select a region on the map to explore its parks.

The Source Artwork

Drawn as vector, county by county

The interactive is built on top of a print poster I designed first — a full-bleed 14×20 infographic of Ohio's state parks. Every county is its own closed vector shape, colored by region, with a hand-placed marker system: a tree for parks that are ready to visit and a star for ones already completed. Building it as clean vector art is exactly what makes the same data reusable as an interactive map.

Ohio State Parks poster — a color-coded regional map of all 75 state parks with a numbered legend, compass rose, and completed/ready markers

The print poster the interactive is built from — original vector artwork, five regions, all 75 parks.

The regions layer — five color-coded state-park regions with park markers

The marker layer — park locations plotted across the state

Left: the regional color system. Right: the isolated marker layer — the same data that drives the interactive.

Why It Matters

One dataset, two deliverables

This piece shows the full arc: research and data design (locating and grouping 75 parks), original vector illustration (every county drawn by hand), a considered visual system (region palette, legend, marker language), and the front-end skill to turn a static poster into something you can click through. It's the same digital-to-physical-to-interactive range behind my topographic shadowbox work — applied to a place I actually explore.

Need a map, infographic, or interactive built from real data?

I design the artwork and the system behind it — then build it into something people can actually use.

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