Atlas of Design
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Follow the latest news and updates covering Atlas of Design. The Atlas of Design is a book dedicated to showing off some of the world's most beautiful and intriguing cartographic designs. Every two years, a new volume is published filled with full-color maps, selected from a worldwide competition, and judged by an expert panel.
Atlas of Design
6M ago
Hello map lovers! We have a couple of exciting updates to share with you.
Have you been waiting to complete your Atlas of Design collection? Well, the time has come—we’ll be reprinting Volume 1 and Volume 4 this summer. Even better, you can save money and guarantee your copy by pre-ordering before May 15th, 2023. Visit atlasofdesign.org/order to reserve yours today.
If you order before May 15th, copies of Volumes 1 and 4 are just $30 each (regular list price $35 USD). NACIS members will pay just $22.50 (regularly $26.25) by using a special discount code. You’ll need to log in with an active ac ..read more
Atlas of Design
6M ago
Join us again as the editorial team and some of our guest judges take a deeper look at a few of the maps featured in the Atlas of Design Volume 6. In these segments, we offer personal opinions about what makes each map interesting. We do not speak for the authors, nor are we offering an Official Atlas of Design Opinion. Instead, we just want to take a moment to engage with these intriguing works and offer you all a chance to think more deeply about what’s going on in each one, which is one of the goals of our project ..read more
Atlas of Design
6M ago
I started in cartography after doing the kind of basic graphic design work where I talked a lot with people who ran printing presses. Learned among other things what make life easier for them so I would get closer the results I wanted. It became habit. in my 22 years with Hedberg Maps, I did a LOT of press checks, where you visit the printer, see the piece on press, and talk with the press operators about what can change and how. These days, digital controls on presses are so good, and so little of my work is direct printed product, I seldom have need or cause to go to a press check. And I mis ..read more
Atlas of Design
6M ago
Join us as the editorial team and some of our guest judges take a deeper look at a few of the maps featured in the Atlas of Design Volume 6. In these segments, we offer personal opinions about what makes each map interesting. We do not speak for the authors, nor are we offering an Official Atlas of Design Opinion. Instead, we just want to take a moment to engage with these intriguing works and offer you all a chance to think more deeply about what’s going on in each one, which is one of the goals of our project ..read more