More cut-outs

These maps are insane...I think it would be cool to see the process behind them in a way that animated them.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/54765002/madrid-mapcut

Typographic Map - San Francisco

GOOD Magazine  | American Wealth Infographic

Crazy Paper | Architectural Cutouts

Ingrid Siliakus

Charles Minard

Minard makes a lot of info graphics and maps, one of the most famous shown above. This map is interesting becuase it shows multiple levels of information.

Prints, prints

I've been thinking a lot about fingerprints...how they are unique to everyone yet how they map out our own existence through everything we touch and everywhere we go.  For a first excercise I want to track my print...map it and then play around with how one influences the other. It is also interesting to think of while we each leave our own print on things in that one moment...how many existing prints have been stamped prior? How do our own prints intersect with those all around us?

MAP = grid

I started thinking recently about how mapping and grids used in graphic design are related and can influence one another. I came across a book on 2 x 4's webpage that uses a very visually stimulating grid work throughout the book. So I am thinking about the ability to overlay a grid over a map or vice versa....have a map create a visual grid for something else.

Here are some of the pages/grids I liked best from the project Prada Libro....

Mapping Rules...

I came across this article by a graphic designer who lays some ground rules....basically the gist of it is STAY SIMPLE.

About charts and graphs, for Impress Magazine, July 2000
By Nigel Holmes