Thursday, November 4, 2010

Typographic Maps - Cartography. Visualization. Design.

Courtney (aka CB0E.) sent me these typetastic maps from Axis Maps. Go to the blog to see more cities beyond Chicago;  they aren't even crazy-expensive like you (I did) might assume.
mapping / art project Typographic Maps. Created as a labor of love, these unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words does the full picture of the city emerge. Every single piece of type was manually placed, a process that took hundreds of hours to complete for each map. Take a look at our blog for more on how these maps were made.
We offer high quality poster-sized prints for $30, or a variety of other size and media options.

Chicago 1a

Chicago 2b

Boston typographic map

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