Randal Olson’s US Road-Trip Route: The Landmarks Behind the Calculation
A line looping across the United States makes a tempting promise: perhaps somebody has already solved the road trip for us. Randal Olson’s w...
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Maps: Routes, Scale & New Perspectives
A map can help plan a journey or change the way we picture the world. Explore routes and visualisations while paying attention to scale, dates and the choices made by the person who created them.
Start with The Algorithm Behind America’s Famous Road Trip Map and Bellerby & Co: The Careful Art of Making a Globe.
Inside Bellerby & Co: How a Handmade Globe Takes Shape
A flat map can be folded into a pocket. A globe asks a different question: how do you carry all those coastlines, labels and colours around ...
Bold Tuesday’s Go! World Map: A Personal Record of Travel
A black map slowly reveals patches of white as pieces are peeled away. The idea is simple enough to understand at a glance, yet personal eno...
I Was Here: Art. Lebedev Studio’s Scratch-Off Travel Map
There is a small pleasure in revealing a new patch of colour on a travel map. The action gives a journey a visible place at home, turning a ...
A World Map Drawn from Memory: The Classroom Photographs
A classroom whiteboard fills with the outlines of continents and countries. Beside it, a child adds another part of the drawing. The image i...
North Atlantic Skies: Reading NATS’s 2,524-Flight Visualisation
Across a dark Atlantic map, bright lines gather into ribbons between North America and Europe. Seen together, individual flights become some...