Tag: Map

Beautiful Maps of Countries Made Out of Real Food

USA – Corn “Food Maps” is the striking series created by New Zealand-based artists Henry Hargreaves and New York-based stylist Caitlin Levin. Their food maps depict the iconic foods for each country they are known for, like spices for India, noodles for China, tomatoes for Italy.

Google Maps Typography

Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia has compiled the first Google Maps alphabet, featuring all 26 letters created from satellite images of natural features and buildings. He spent several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 finding land formations or buildings remeble the letters.

Hand Cut Maps by Karen O’Leary

Artist Karen O’Leary of North Carolina has created an amazing series of hand cut paper maps of popular cities like Sydney, Manhattan, London, New Orleans and many more. German designer Dirk Schachter also inspired us by creating beautiful Typography-Inspired-Maps but Karen O’Leary has really taken the maps drawing to a completely new level by creating… Continue reading Hand Cut Maps by Karen O’Leary

Paper-Cut World Map Silhouettes

Paper artist Joe Bagley creates amazing paper-cut silhouettes of different objects. From paper-cut bicycles to animals shapes he has a very inspiring portfolio. “Each of my designs is hand-cut from a single piece of black paper and mounted to acid-free white mat board. Paper is the traditional first anniversary gift, so I recommend them as… Continue reading Paper-Cut World Map Silhouettes