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Pixel-perfect Chinese cities

Hong Kong pixel map - hongkong.edushi.com
A few things immediately came to mind after stumbling on this site. The first was how beautiful these aerial maps are. Second, holy crap, that must have taken a team of a million designers a long time to put it all together!

The images above are of Hong Kong, zoomed out/zoomed in. There are a variety of other cities available to explore as well, check it out for yourself here.

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 Bookmark Comments
Tags: china, maps, visualization

Paula Scher, painted maps

Painted maps - Paula Scher
^{Africa, 2003, Acrylic on canvas, 120” x 104.5”}

Chances are you’ve already seen Paula Scher’s work outside of a gallery. A principal at Pentagram, she’s built identity systems for Citibank, The New York Public Theater, and the American Museum of Natural History. She began her career designing album covers for CBS Recordings in the 1970s.

She showed a series of paintings at the Maya Stendhal Gallery in NYC earlier this year consisting of 12 large canvases, some spanning 5’ to 12’. She uses color in a bold fashion to communicate her opinions about a particular region. She does this quite elegantly, as a seasoned graphic designer could only pull it off. Despite having a lot of text all over the paintings, there’s an understated simplicity which is pleasing and fun to interact with. I also can’t help but to feel some sort of primal obsessive-compulsive angle to these works—like aboriginal art, for example.

Emu Dreaming - Tim Leura
^{Emu Dreaming, 1975, Acrylic on masonite, 12” x 20”}

I really love these painted maps. I’m sure in person these behemoths are even more impressive, what a pity I missed this exhibit!

Google Earth for Mac

Every since Google Earth became available for Mac yesterday I’ve been spanning the globe looking for:

evidence of WMDs in Iraq
beachfront property in third world countries
cropcircles
really fat people just outside of shopping malls
every place in the world I’ve been

Wow, I feel like a real (lazy) explorer! Vespucci, you ain’t got nothing on me, heh.

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 Bookmark Comments
Tags: google, maps, software

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