The best maps are revelatory; they tell you something about the world that you didn’t know. Not just where places are and what they’re near, but what they’re about. These maps make the world feel both familiar and new. I love how we get such a suggestive glimpse of the letters for each country on this typographic map:

And I love type that stretches to the edges, that gets blown out by the characteristics of whatever it’s naming. See how the D in Canada has been eaten by Hudson Bay? Yet we recognize the name, even without access to all the letters.

Thanks, Vlad Studio! It’s even better bigger, so download the map here.

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Tags: typography, vlad studio, world map

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