Map: Wikipedia Debates

Infographic for Wikipedia's publicly updated subjects. Some of the lamest examples of editing that has gone back and forth on Wikipedia. Pertaining to religion, ethics, culture, technical and even spelling. Size of the box relates to how big of an issue it was. See it larger on Information is Beautiful

Posted by Anne Ulku

Maps and type

Given the dual nature of this blog, I thought this map would be particularly interesting. There are some better pictures on some of the credit links.

(Brought to you by Axis Maps through Infosthetics through Fast Co. Design through Gizmodo.]

--Posted by Marin

Get your own map!

Today one of our classmates mentioned he might be willing to be a guinea pig for my map project that explores the relationship between emotional closeness and geographic distance. If you are interested in this, what I'd ask you to do is list up to 300 people you know with their city and state (or zip code), pick why you know them from 5 categories (work, family, K-12, college/grad school, other), and assign them a "closeness ranking" from 1 to 7. I've created a Google spreadsheet here where you can enter data. If any of this doesn't make sense, I've got answers and you can email me here. --Posted by Marin

Map: Flavor

Mapping flavor-- or also known as a Carbon Foodprint.

The flavors of food are not unique per product--it is the right combination of flavor molecules that make each product have its particular taste. That means, each product can be easily replaced by a combination of other items.

This chart shows the flavor of an orange.

There are ten key flavors to combine that are needed to recreate the orange flavor. Each color in the chart represents a key component with its flavor named per category- i.e. herbaceous woody, green, floral citrus, etc.

To obtain the flavor of an orange, you must take one component from each color category. The length of the line in the graph represents the amount of that flavor. The longer the line, the more you will need.

Posted by Anne Ulku

Three random-ish map things

First, I'm not sure this counts as a map per se, but it's cool, and related to scale, which is a mapping-ish thing (you have to follow the link, it's not a picture):

http://primaxstudio.com/stuff/scale_of_universe/

I like it because it's kind of a "Powers of 10," but interactive.

Second, while exploring what turned out to be a dead end for my class project, I found this amusing set of tools, which includes a midpoint calculator, a bearing/distance calculator, and a random geographic point generator (which I want to figure out a use for somehow, someday): http://www.geomidpoint.com/

And finally, for Lisa in particular, this is kind of the inverse of your map project (from the Strange Maps blog again):

--posted by Marin

Map: Marian Bantjes' Influences

Marian Bantjes- an elite artist, designer, typographer, illustrator and writer- has mapped out her obsessions, travels, personal artistic influences, themes, working materials, styles of work, etc. A visual representation, and work of art, that truly represents who she is as an individual. (Map dated from August 2006)




See it on her website: Influence Map

Posted by Anne Ulku

Map: Biggest Drawing in the World

This is a map that has created the largest self-portrait in the world.

A GPS system, traveling around the world through delivery trucks and other modes of transportation, became the trackable strokes of the medium, or the "pen". A very long list of specific coordinate travel destinations given to the delivery vehicles, marked the points of the image on the map. The GPS was able to track the entire journey - lasting 55 days, going through 6 continents and 62 countries with a total length of 110,664 km.

Biggest Drawing in the World

Posted by Anne Ulku

Maps and Mattresses

Guillermo Kuitca had an exhibit at the Walker this summer, which is where I first saw the piece above. It's a little hard to see from the photo, but those are all small mattresses painted with what look to be pretty standard road maps, and upholstery buttons marking the major cities. The next photo is of a different piece, but it has the same general idea and I think you can see the map part a bit better.


The thing you can't tell from either photo is that Kuitca often uses real place names but imaginary geographies. One piece that was at the Walker exhibit used place names from Minnesota and the upper Midwest, so when I first looked at it, it seemed familiar until I looked closer and realized that places were all in the "wrong" place.

And finally, another map that I like because it is based on perceived geography rather than physical reality:


Posted by Marin

Typography, meet Conceptual Cartography...

Greetings! This has been an exciting semester of design at MCAD. We are currently in the throws of Typography with a new course—Conceptual Cartography—beginning this week. The good news is that each class will be sharing this blog through the end of the term. I am confident that the Cartography students will be inspired by the Typography students and vice versa.

Enjoy!

Neal