Video: Typographic maps from Axis Maps
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Axis Maps, one of the largest cartographic companies in the United States, recently launched a very interesting new project called Typographic Maps (as opposed to conventional Topographic Maps). Its essence lies in the issue of cards in which absolutely everything is indicated with the help of text.
Something similar can be seen in Arabic script, especially medieval one. After all, Islam prohibits drawings of people and animals. Therefore, very often they were depicted using written Arabic script. It is beautiful, stylish and not sinful.
However, the specialists from Axis Maps were unlikely to rely on Muslim experience when creating Typographic Maps. They just thought it would be stylish, beautiful and original. And, to their credit, it will be necessary to say that this is exactly what happened.
After all, on Typographic Maps absolutely everything: streets, and water bodies, and parks, and road junctions, and different areas of the city, and all other topographic information is displayed exclusively with the help of text. It turned out original and very clear.
At the moment, Axis Maps has created maps of Chicago and Boston in color and black-and-white versions. But the company's plans include other cities, and the map of the United States as a whole. But for this you still need to work hard. After all, all these maps from the Typographic Maps series are created by designers manually. And the creation of just one of them takes hundreds of hours.
One such unusual Typographic map from Axis Maps costs 30 US dollars.
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