Old maps of Finland

maps-and-globes:

(via be-amani, blinkanditsover)

By Ron Arad

Gallery of Maps in the Vatican Palaces (included in the tour of the Vatican Museums)

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brb

Chromaroma gamifies travel throughout the London area and produces beautiful maps and visualizations.

Good lord this is gorgeous.

elizaevans:

alecshao:

Claire Brewster, I’ll Get There, I Know I Will

Paper art out of old and out-of-date maps and atlases

@desjardins

vanishingnight:

From my ongoing Altered States Project, in which I’m making these abstract sculptures from an old atlas. I’m taking cues for the surface geometry from arbitrary divisions of states and counties; absurdly mocking the structure of a topographical map.

troveshare:

Gorgeous and great race and ethnicity maps, by Eric Fischer, 2011 (using 2010 census data). New York City shown. But click through for all US cities.

(via tumble-of-life)

by Paula Scher. [previously]

(Source: academiccouture)

Most Americans are familiar with George Washington’s role as the leader of the Continental army against the British forces in the American Revolution or as the first president of the United States, but many may be unaware of Washington’s lifelong association with geography and cartography.

Geological Study for MSU Geology Department

(via maps-and-globes)

theorypluspractice:

Speaking of paper prototyping, a number of years ago I helped design this dynamic Panamap for a client of mine, Urban Mapping. It was the only tangible portfolio piece that I included with my grad school application to SVA. One can read a more detailed case study of it on my design portfolio site here. Like the paper cube globe example below, it is a lo-tech, high-quality approach to displaying multiple levels of information—in this case, streets, subways, neighborhoods and landmarks.

This makes me wonder: aside from printing huge panels of paper covered with equally huge lenticular lens, how else can we prototype complex interactivity without the use of electricity or batteries? Can the methods of design and production used here influence more technologically advanced platforms? Is there a better/faster/easier way to communicate multiple levels of information?

Speechless. This is crazy awesome.

ndtypeandprint:

Emily Fisher’s “soft maps” — Cartography with a nice human touch. [via swissmiss]

Minimalist City Transit Map Posters by Cayla Ferari and John Breznicky

Click the picture to go to the My Bearded Pigeon’s Etsy page. The image below is from salt labs; click to go to their page.

(Source: interiorsanddecor, via travelnerd)

hilaryrakestraw:

Map showing the proportion of deaths from
CONSUMPTION
to the deaths from all causes
compiled from the returns of mortality at the Ninth Census
of the United States 1870

(via Radical Cartography)