Greetings!
We are thrilled to reveal the final selection of maps slated for inclusion in the Atlas of Design, Volume VII! Once again, we were overwhelmed with the quantity and caliber of the maps that were submitted from all over the world, which made it quite the challenge to narrow down the selection. We extend our heartfelt thanks to all participants and eagerly anticipate your submissions for future editions!
Here are maps you’ll find in the Atlas of Design Volume VII:
2024 Atlas of Design Finalists:
(Alphabetical by title, attribution may change)
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| A Delicious View of U.S. Parks | Wendy Shijia Wang and RJ Andrews |
| A Map of Home, Stitched in Found Fabrics | Eleanor Lutz |
| A New and Accurate Map of Earth’s Moon | Kevin Sheehan |
| A Selection of North American Rivers | Daniel P. Huffman |
| Adirondack Paint Map | Jeff Mathison |
| Aotearoa | Ian Reese |
| Argentina Gastronómica | Amparo Guindon (Mapoteca) |
| Before You Are Here: An Indigenous Cartography of the Bay Area | Clancy Wilmott |
| Blueprint: City Grid | Svea Josephy |
| Californian Snowflakes | Kenneth Field |
| Centroamérica Se Mueve(Central America Moves) | Gabriela Fenner and Mir Rodríguez Lombardo |
| East Boston Sea Level Rise Flood Risk | Andy Woodruff |
| Hand Drawn Map of London | Jenni Sparks |
| Hong Kong Tramways and i-Discover Asia | Tania Willis |
| Malaspina Glacier and the Saint Elias Mountains | Tom Patterson |
| NATO, Geopolitics, and the Fight to Fuel Europe | National Geographic |
| Pennsylvania Outdoor Recreation Lizard Map | Purple Lizard Maps |
| Santorini Island | Spyridon Staridas |
| Shipwrecks of Nova Scotia | Peter Atwood |
| Spain’s Muslim Era | National Geographic |
| Spirits of Scotland | Milana Glebova |
| Taman Negara Gunung Mulu(Mount Mulu National Park) | Phoebe Ly |
| The Bowhead Hunt and Bird Migrations as an Inupiaq Calendar System | Amanda Aman |
| The Essential Geography of the USA | David Imus |
| The Exploratory Map of Pilgrimage Route in Journey to the West | Yue ZHANG, Jinnuo DUAN, Xi TANG (Institute of Cartography, East China Normal University) |
| The Forgotten Places of Bucharest | Oana Candit |
| Under Siege: A Cartographic Chronicle of the Fifth Gaza War | Adina Renner |
| Une Mappemonde Craquelée | Xemartin Laborde |
| Voteland | Adrián Blanco Ramos and Artur Galocha Vallejo |
| Wayfinding Map for Calgary’s +15 Skywalk | Steer |
| Wien Secession, An Artsy Walk Through Vienna | Camila Narbaitz Sarsur |
| Wild World | Anton Thomas |
| Zibo Map of Culture and Tourism | Chenxiao (Atlas) Guo |
We’d also like to acknowledge a distinguished group of honorable mentions. These maps were all seriously considered for inclusion in 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!
2024 Honorable Mentions:
(Alphabetical by title)
| Title | Authors |
|---|---|
| A Map of Bolton Fell Moss | Helen Cann |
| Ancient Lakes | Jon Farber |
| Arthur’s Pass National Park | Andrew Tyrrell (South Arrow Maps) |
| Bentonville Trails | Jeremy Collins |
| Climbing Her Way to the Top, Janja Garnbret’s Routes in the 2020 Olympics Bouldering Final | Abigail Rabinovitch |
| Environmental Shocks: Jeopardising Development Gains | Christian Dietrich |
| Inhumane Flows | James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti |
| La Luna | Micaela Mendelevich (Mapoteca) |
| Languages & Peoples of the First Nations of Australia | Alexander Broers |
| Monstruos y Leyendas de Rio Negro(Myths and Monsters of Rio Negro) | Federico La Rosa |
| Reservoir Cogs | Hannah Wright |
| The 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipses: Through the Eyes of NASA | Michala Garrison |
| The Philadelphia Bookstore Map | Henry Crane |
| The Portarlington Map | Melinda Clarke, Deborah Young-Monk, Sean Rodwell |
| Trollheimen | Agnar Renolen |
| Yangtze River Delta: Accessing to River and Sea, Facilitating Domestic and International Circulations | Feiran SUN, Yameng WANG, Xi TANG (Institute of Cartography, East China Normal University) |
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, Anton Thomas, Bill Limpisathian, Daniel Huffman, Delphine Papin, Jack Gieseking, Jim Meacham, Jennifer Mapes, Jug Cerovic, Julie Witmer, Molly O’Halloran, and Tim Wallace.
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 Tacoma!).
Aaron, Aileen, Dan and Erin – Atlas of Design Volume VII Editorial Team