Volume Four

The fourth Edition of the Atlas of Design was released and sold out in 2018. It was reprinted summer 2023. Order now at our web store.

Volume IV of the Atlas of Design (2018) features 33 stunning maps from cartographers around the world. Each map is accompanied by commentary from the cartographer. This 98-page, full-color, library-quality volume is published by the North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS).

Physical details: 98 pages, hardcover, smythe sewn binding, 12” x 9” pages.

Eastern Pacific Ring of Fire

John Nelson

Who Owns the Arctic? Multiple Claims

Xemartin Laborde and Delphine Papin — Le Monde, with Bruno Tertrais

The Melting of Antarctica

Lauren C. Tierney, Stephen Tyson, and Jason Treat — National Geographic Magazine

Chicago El Map Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright

Maxwell J. Roberts

What If It Was Your City?

Alberto Lucas López — South China Morning Post

Sierra Nevada Snow Cover 2017

Nathaniel A. Douglass

A Visual History of U.S. State Boundaries

Joshua Korenblat, Karl Phillips, Jeff Osborn, Nathaniel Pearlman — Graphicacy

Glacial Landforms of the Puget Lowland

Daniel Coe — Washington Geological Survey

One City Marathon

Jonah Adkins

Cleveland Metroparks Centennial Map

Brandon Garman — Cleveland Metroparks

King Eider

Daniel P. Huffman

Bird’s-Eye View of Historic Philadelphia

Bill Marsh

Skenara, The Land Beyond the Sea

John Stevenson

Slavery in the United States

Bill Rankin — Yale University

North Cascades Collaboration

Jason Curtis and Nikki Frumkin

Famine in Yemen

Laris Karklis — The Washington Post

(In)Visible Night Sky

Martin Pulicar

Asahi-dake, The Heart of the Daisetsuzan National Park

Markus Hauser—Orell Füssli Kartographie AG

How Deep is Dark Star?

Charles Preppernau, Martin Gamache, Scott Zillmer, and Michael Fry — National Geographic Magazine

Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart

Doug McCune

El Reino de España, a Decorative Map of Spain

Mike Hall

South Carolina Historic Rainfall and Flooding, October 2015

Tanner Arrington — South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

The Annapolis River

Heather Smith

The Blanco River

Molly O Halloran

Rhaetian Railway Map

Arne and Martina Rohweder

Frente de Luta por Moradia (FLM) & Occupied Central São Paulo

Jeroen Stevens, Ken Vervaet, Matthias Lamberts, Lucas Lerchs, Kathleen De Beukelaer, Claire Bosmans, Valentine Van Den Eynde Raissa Monteiro, Carmen Briers, Lisa De Vos, Bruno De Meulder

Coming Home to Indigenous Place Names in Canada

Margaret Wickens Pearce, for the Canadian-American Center, University of Maine

Bhutan, a Himalayan “Confetti” Ogled by Two Giants

Francesca Fattori and Xemartin Laborde — Le Monde

Katmai National Park and Preserve Panorama

Joe Milbrath and Jim Eynard

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

Tom Patterson

Tactile Map of Switzerland

Anna Vetter

Banff, Yoho & Kootenay National Parks Recreation Map and Visitor Guide

Jeff Clark — Clark Geomatics

Car-Free Key West

Kate Chanba for The City of Key West