• Huffington Post Preview

    by  • October 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

    We’re honored to be featured on the Huffington Post Books page today. If you’re looking to read part of the book before you purchase, they’ve got an excerpt from the opening essay, and previews of several of the featured maps. Check it out!

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    Three Questions: Cameron Booth

    by  • October 8, 2012 • 0 Comments

    For the third in our series of short interviews with Atlas of Design contributors, we bring you Cameron Booth, brilliant designer, transit map nerd and cartographer of U.S. Numbered Highways as a Subway Map. Cameron is a graphic designer, photographer and (d’uh) map-maker. He is a jack-of-all-design-trades, with experience in logo design, typography, and web design....

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    Three Questions: Adam Wilbert, CartoGaia

    by  • September 27, 2012 • 0 Comments

    For the second in our series of short interviews with Atlas of Design contributors, we bring you Adam Wilbert, the mastermind behind Oyster Appellations of the Pacific Northwest, Sheet 2 of 4: Northern Puget Sound. Adam is a cartographer, photographer, teacher (check him out on Lynda!) and principal of cartoGaia. After seeing his work here and in...

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    Three Questions: Ben Sheesley, Axis Maps

    by  • September 21, 2012 • 2 Comments

    To give you all a chance to learn a little bit more about the brilliant folks whose works fill the Atlas of Design, we’re kicking off a series of three-question interviews with some of our contributors. Ben Sheesley, one of the minds behind Axis Maps, was kind enough to agree to be our first...

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    Choosing the Finalists

    by  • September 18, 2012 • 1 Comment

    So, a few weeks ago we announced the final selections for the Atlas of Design. Twenty-seven great examples of some of the world’s great cartography. Today we want to talk about how those selections were made.

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    Press Check on Monday Morning

    by  • September 11, 2012 • 0 Comments

    We couldn’t take too many photographs, but here’s a shot of one of the color proofs we received last week, side-by-side with the less-glossy press proof of the same section.

    A Preview of the Selections

    by  • August 23, 2012 • 1 Comment

    The layout is done, we’ve got copyright releases from everyone, and we’re just a few small adjustments away from delivering files to the press. Now, at long last, we can begin to share with you the book’s contents!

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    Checking In

    by  • August 7, 2012 • 0 Comments

    Hey everyone! Sorry for going quiet for so long, but we’ve been so busy working on creating the Atlas of Design that we haven’t had a lot of time to actually tell you all about what we’ve been up to. Things have been going very well in the meantime, though, and we wanted to...

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