segunda-feira, 1 de novembro de 2010

Maps and Legends

via Information Design Watch by Tim Roy on 10/31/10

No, not a post about the REM song.  But I could not resist a brief mention of Axis Maps who has produced a beautiful mashup of two of our favorite things here at Dynamic Diagrams: maps and typography.  To date, the folks at Axis Maps have produced detailed typographic renderings of two cities: Boston and Chicago, but there are more in the works.

Map drawn using only typography

Detail of the Chicago map

The Boston map

Each map was hand-made, with type carefully overlaid on the existing cartographic structures.  Clearly these were a labor of love and the resulting work shows it.  See more at:

http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php

(Thanks to Smashingmagazine for the tweet pointer to this great material)

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