Posts under ‘Design’

From www.oregonmetro.gov
“Introducing Walk There! Metro’s new guide to great places to walk in the Portland-Vancouver area. The book will lead you on 50 explorations of newly acquired urban natural areas, scenic parks, historic neighborhoods and fascinating main streets. Detailed maps and route descriptions will help you discover the region’s rich history and varied landscapes while [...]

In my last post, I mentioned how there was one prototype of the glass San Francisco map that used the typeface Klavika, and while it wasn’t chosen for the final product, I was very curious how it would work for a city map. Well the answer can be seen in the Portland map series project [...]

I meant to announce this some time ago when it was unveiled. I’ve gotten quite a few queries regarding aspects of this map, so I’m posting some more info about it.
From across the lobby of the San Francisco Business District Hilton, the map looks like it is one giant sheet of glass, twelve feet [...]

Hardly anyone has used the octant map/projection since 1514 or so. At least it is hard to find examples.

So I put it to use in the Art of Geography logo.

Many people have commented on the logo… I thought it would be interesting to delve into this unusual projection/map. The following article explains more [...]

Freehand/Illustrator Switcher Guide from Adobe: “Adobe recently added a Freehand to Illustrator Migration Guide to its Web site, adding to speculation that there is no future for Freehand”
(Via The Mac Observer.)

Bernhard Jenny and Nathaniel Vaughn announced the availability of Color Oracle
(http://colororacle.cartography.ch/) for Mac OS 10.3.9 and above (freeware). Links are provided at the site for Windows compatable tools too.
Color Oracle takes the guesswork out of designing for color blindness by
showing you in real time how people with common color vision deficiencies
will see your maps and [...]

The art of hacking: opening really old Illustrator files: “Sandee Cohen was kind of enough to forward to me a conversation she had with Steven Gordon with regard to opening Illustrator 1.1 files in Illustrator CS2. Back in Illustrator CS, Adobe disabled the ability to open Illustrator 1.1 files believing that the format wasn’t used [...]