Category Archives: Typographic

Literary maps of the USA and UK

Posted on April 26, 2011 by James

From Geoff Sawers and Bridget Hannigan, have designed and created a  couple of impressive typographic, literary maps. The maps for the USA and UK consist entirely of author names hand written over locations they’re associated with – that could be … Continue reading →

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Create Your Own Typographic Maps

Posted on February 21, 2011 by James

Tagxedo is a very cool Silverlight-based online tag cloud generator. Letting you create a visually striking word cloud in any shape in a matter of seconds. The application has oodles of options: Use any text, either by pasting it in … Continue reading →

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World Alphabet Map

Posted on February 12, 2011 by James

Typographic maps – maps built entirely from the written word -seem to be ten a penny these days. Taylor Hayward’s clever spin on the idea is to use individual characters in a world map constructed from the alphabet each country … Continue reading →

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