Greetings!
We are excited to announce the final selection of maps set to be featured in the Atlas of Design, Volume VI! As with past volumes, the amazing number and quality of maps you sent us made it a difficult task to choose just 32. This year, we had fewer entries than we had for Volume V, but the overall quality was higher, making it even harder to choose. We could’ve assembled multiple fantastic volumes from this year’s entries alone. Our sincere thanks to everyone who submitted, and we encourage you all to submit again next time!
Here are maps you’ll find in the Atlas of Design Volume VI:
2022 Atlas of Design Finalists:
(Alphabetical by title, attribution may change)
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| A Guide to Anahuac, the Heart of the Aztec Empire | Carl Churchill |
| Alex McPhee’s Province of Alberta | Alex McPhee, Prairie Heart Maps |
| Algonquin Park Canoe Trip | Warren Davison |
| Arlys | MistyBeee |
| Around the Block | Jennifer Mapes |
| Atlanta Rap Map | Joseph Veazey |
| Atlas of Scotland | Andrew Redmond Barr |
| Australia | Alex Hotchin |
| Carte de mon Monde Confiné | Arthur Beaubois-Jude |
| Colorado Trail | Madeline Grubb |
| Hillside, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe | Cam Ojeda |
| Hospital Corridor Smellmap | Kate McLean |
| Humedales de la Cuenca del Río Paraná - Región Litoral Central | Orlando Roberto Oldani |
| Kjempsavor Ayars | David Nuttall |
| Landforms of Michigan | Daniel P. Huffman |
| Le Pertuis d’Antioche | Marine Le Breton |
| Murky Waters: Unmapped Areas of Seafloor | Andrew Douglas-Clifford |
| Panoramic Map of the Alps | Eric Knight |
| Railway Map of Greater London | Mike Hall |
| Screwed: 2020 Presidential Election | Kenneth Field |
| Settings Rivers Free | National Geographic Magazine |
| Sinaia: Points of Interest in the Center of a Mountain Resort | Oana Candit - Esri Romania |
| Slivers of an Ancient Forest | Jake Steinberg |
| Takamatsu Public Transport Map | Jug Cerovic |
| The Bellarine Map | Melinda Clarke, Deborah Young-Monk, Sean Rodwell |
| The Hajj: Journey of a Lifetime | Jean-Louis Rheault |
| The Kansas City Map of Outdoor Pursuits and Nature Education | Jeremy Collins |
| The Presidential Range | Andy Woodruff |
| Thirty years of tension and conflict. Contested borders, ethnic violence, Russian aggressions… The shock waves of the fall of the USSR | Xemartin Laborde, Lucie Rubrice and Delphine Papin |
| Three Views of Cascades Volcanoes | Leif Karlstrom and Daniel O’Hara |
| Wa:w Giwulik: A Landform Portrait | Zoé Edgecomb |
| Where each demographic group contributed most to population growth since 2010 & U.S. population change cartogram | Adrián Blanco Ramos, Zach Levitt, Brittany Renee Mayes, Ted Mellnik, and Tim Meko - The Washington Post |
We’d also like to recognize a group of honorable mentions. These maps were all in serious consideration for the final volume, but unfortunately, we can only include so many—our final selection was as much about balance and variety as it was about quality! You can read more about our general selection process again, here.
2022 Honorable Mentions:
(Alphabetical by title)
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| Dependent Territories: Fishing System in Kivalina | Amanda Aman |
| Diagram of Amtrak Rail Services, May 1971 | Cameron Booth |
| Earth Transit | Zhaoxu Sui |
| Kenan’s Climb | Lydia Youngblood |
| Longyearbyen and environs (3D Map) | Anders Skoglund |
| Mount Everest 3D Map | Tom Patterson |
| Paris Urban Heat Islands | Cedric Rossi |
| Sacrifice Zones | Al Shaw, Lylla Younes, Lucas Waldron, Kathleen Flynn, Ava Kofman |
| Sea to Sky Country - Vancouver to Whistler, British Columbia | Jeff Clark |
| Seventy Years of Canadian Wildfire & New York City 100-Year-Floodplain | Glenn Ingram |
| Shamus Town Raymond Chandler Mystery Map of Greater Los Angeles (circa 1932-2014): The Wonder City of America | Loren Latker |
| Shanghai Metro Service Map with Scenic Landmarks and Songjiang Top 10 Tourist Routes | Ziwei Jiang, Xi Tang |
| The Fan by the Colors: Richmond VA | Emily Routman |
| Wild World: Australasia | Anton Thomas |
| Winter Trails, Methow Valley, Washington | Matt Dressler |
And lastly, we’d like to give a big thanks to our volunteer judges, who were willing to lend their time and cartographic expertise to the selection process. Their efforts help us to create the best Atlas we can. Our immense thanks goes to: Aly Ollivierre, Armelle Caron, Daniel Huffman, John Krygier, Jordan Engel, Juliane Cron, Kenneth Field, Madison Draper, Meghan Kelly, Tim Wallace, Tom Patterson, and Vicky Johnson.
So what’s next? The Editorial Team and this volume’s contributors will begin working on assembling layouts and crafting the commentary for each map. From there we hope to have a first draft layout for the book by July and files shipped to our press in August. At the moment, we are still on target for release during the NACIS Annual Meeting in October (see you in Minneapolis!).
Nat, Tracy, Josh, & Aaron – Atlas of Design Volume VI Editorial Team