4x6-foot LED-backlit map: 3,600 DPI composite of U.S. Geological Survey 1:24k topographic maps.
4x6-foot LED backlit map for Clodagh Design, installed in a Manhattan office.
3x5-foot LED-backlit 3,600 DPI map by Evan Applegate using Natural Earth data and Tom Patterson labels.
This doesn’t exist (yet): 8'x22' LED-backlit map. U.S. Geological Survey 1:24k 1970s-era topo maps.
24x34” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey.
18x24” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The letterers, airbrushers, hachurists and drafters who made the best maps are dead or retired. But their techniques can live again: with fastidious work and artists who care, the future can have beautiful maps.
9x12x2” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe bathymetry by Evan Applegate.
12x16” illuminated print. Map by Evan Applegate, illustrations by Ezra Butt.
16x20” illuminated print. Map by Evan Applegate, hand-lettered by Ezra Butt, illustrations by Matt Strieby and Aiyana Udesen.
48x72” illuminated print. Map by Michel-Etienne Turgot, Louis Bretez, Claude Lucas.
16x20” illuminated print. Map by Parsons & Atwater.
48x72” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe bathymetry by Evan Applegate.
Render of an 8'x22' illuminated map across 46 LED panels. U.S. Geological Survey photogrammetrically-derived 1:24k maps, 1950s-1990s.
48x72” illuminated print across nine LED panels, installed in a Manhattan office. Map by Evan Applegate using Tom Patterson labels.
48x72” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey
9x12x2” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe bathymetry by Evan Applegate.
24x34” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey.
48x72” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Forest Service, Tahoe bathymetry by Evan Applegate.
9x12” illuminated print. Maps by the U.S. Geological Survey.
12x16” illuminated print. Map by Evan Applegate, illustrations by Ezra Butt.
16x20” illuminated print. Map by Evan Applegate, hand-lettered by Ezra Butt, illustrations by Matt Strieby and Aiyana Udesen.
The letterers, airbrushers, hachurists and drafters who made the best maps are dead or retired. But their techniques can live again: with fastidious work and artists who care, the future can have beautiful maps.
