My New Favorite Maps
These typographic maps are the real deal. Although typographic maps are not a new idea, few are created manually. Even fewer possess the degree of quality seen here.
On Maps Made of Words and Automated Design
Aegir Hallmunder on typographic maps and wether automated design is good or bad.
Crumpled City Map by Emanuele Pizzolorusso
“It just takes 2 seconds to open and close this innovative soft map.”
Flight Path Visualizations by Aaron Koblin
“This work was originally developed as a series of experiments for the project “Celestial Mechanics” by colleagues Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the Processing programming environment. The frames were composited with Adobe After Effects and/or Maya.” —Aaron Koblin, creator of...
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Mississippi Meanders
Beautiful examples of cartographic information design are on display at Radical Cartography. Like the sample above, my favorite are the maps designed by Harold Fisk in 1944 for the Army Corps of Engineers, showing the historical traces of the Mississippi River. Link via Apartment Therapy