The Atlas of Design Is Back, With More Wonderfully Funky Maps | WIRED
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“The Magnificent Bears of the Glorious Nation of Finland,” by Finnish designer Annukka Mäkijärvi, is an unusual map. It features no topographical information. It denotes no geopolitical borders. It doesn’t even have a compass rose. What it does convey, with colorful illustrations of bears that Mäkijärvi smooshed together into the shape of Finland, is the population density of ursine species throughout the Scandinavian country. “There is about 1,600 graceful bears ready to kill you and your loved ones in the whole country,” the text notes. Like we said: Unusual.
If there’s one thing uniting the 32 maps in the third volume of The Atlas of Design, out this month, it’s their unusualness. Some—a chart of Amelia Earhart’s last flight, a verdant drawing called “Megan’s Woods”—barely register as maps. That’s largely deliberate: The Atlas of Design ($35) celebrates a more inclusive idea of cartography.
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