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Paula Scher’s Mind-Bending Maps

Mar 4, 2020
5 min

Paula Scher’s Mind-Bending Maps

Print has been acquired by an independent group of collaborators—Deb Aldrich, Laura Des Enfants, Jessica Deseo, Andrew Gibbs, Steven Heller and Debbie Millman—and soon enough, we’ll be back in full force with an all-new look, all-new content and a fresh outlook for the future! In the meantime, we’re looking back at some of our favorite pieces, such as this one by Jessica Zafarris. Enjoy. A tempest of hand-painted words swirls, tumbles and writhes across a 7-foot-tall canvas,

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Getting Lost in Maps

Sep 20, 2017
3 min

Getting Lost in Maps

If you love maps, find your way to two new map shows—the first being “Picturing the City: Illustrated Maps of NYC.” The exhibition, which runs through April 9, 2018, at the New York Public Library, features 16 maps from the library’s illustrated collection. Spanning 180 years, the selected maps reflect the artistry and inventiveness of their creators. One such below is “The Meltropolis 2118” by Rick Meyerowitz. The show was curated by Katharine Harmon, author of You Are Here—

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25 of the Best Recently Released Design Books

Dec 20, 2016
12 min

25 of the Best Recently Released Design Books

Here, for your reading and visual pleasure, we present PRINT’s annual list of design books released over the past year, as collected by PRINT Editor-in-Chief Zachary Petit. Despite its disastrous reputation, this past year was an interesting year for design books, with a surprising quantity of reissues among those below. Whether you’re looking for reading material, inspiration for the coming year, or a gift for that creative person in your life, these books—listed in no parti

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03/14/2014: Food maps

Mar 14, 2014
1 min

03/14/2014: Food maps

Food stylist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves collaborated to make these inventive maps, built from the region’s most famous foods. Italy is rendered in tomatoes, the entire continent of South America is transformed into citrus fruits and the United States (below) receives the corn treatment. The inventiveness of the various types of corn products used to assemble the U.S. map is the key to its success (it appears, for example, that Washington and New York stat

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Those Confounding Maps

Dec 6, 2013
1 min

Those Confounding Maps

Visual Editions has been exploring the rocky terrain of current and future books – design, delivery and platform. Their most recent release, Where You Are is a book of maps and website that collects writing (non-fiction and fiction) and visuals (drawings, photographs, paintings) and tests the common notions of what a map is. “A wide range of writers, thinkers, artists responded to what their map would be, bringing together human stories about modern, everyday personal lives a

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Image of the Day, 08.09.2013: Buckminster Fuller map

Aug 9, 2013
1 min

Image of the Day, 08.09.2013: Buckminster Fuller map

Nicole Santucci and Woodcut Maps recently won the Dymax Redux competition, in which artists were asked to redesign the R. Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion world map. The map, comprised of different wood textures, shows global forest densities. Via De Zeen. #Dymaxionworldmap #maps #RBuckminsterFuller #woodcut

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Beauty vs. Usability: Exploring Information Design Through Subway Maps

Aug 15, 2012
2 min

Beauty vs. Usability: Exploring Information Design Through Subway Maps

We’ve all been there. The tourist in an unfamiliar city, not-so-subtly trying to make sense of a new transit system. What should be a simple trip from A to B quickly turns into missed connections and lost minutes. Years spent mastering one system may not prepare you for navigating another—as a New Yorker often confused by the D.C. Metro, I can affirm this. The solution, however, isn’t always easy to find. “People can like maps that are hard to use, and dislike those that are

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Jan 31, 2012
3 min

Accurate Maps vs. Useful Maps

"Due East Over Stokes Mountain" I’ve got maps on my mind again, having recently found W.W. Jervis’s The World in Maps: A Study in Map Evolution, published by Oxford University Press in 1937. I discovered this book quite unexpectedly one recent afternoon, running errands in my Queens neighborhood. New York’s mild winter has teased out the book vendors whom usually wait until spring before returning to the sidewalks with their tables. With an emphasis on Spanish-language titles

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Contour Maps Gone 3D

Sep 2, 2011
2 min

Contour Maps Gone 3D

I recently had another project for Levis which involved deconstructing contour maps of volcanoes and giving them dimension for the windows. The styling inspiration was from an amazing ’70s rock climbing book. It reminds me of my parents (how did everyone look so good back then?!). Pages from The Stonemasters: California Rock Climbers in the Seventies I found too much inspiration in the maps department. And while I really have great respect for Cartographers, I would never hav

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Maps, Maps Everywhere

Aug 26, 2010
2 min

Maps, Maps Everywhere

Jeff Woodbury, (no title), 8.5 x 5.5" “Mike, here’s where we are in the scheme of things.” This scrawled message, found in From Here to There, accompanies a hand-drawn map that pinpoints Mike’s final destination of 20 Princess Street. What this map also tells us is that we are in Australia, south Australia, Adelaide to be precise. From a sketch of the continent to the cross street this map situates everything for Mike. Maps typically keep us focused on the passage between two

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