Base jumping. Free falling. Would you (could you) do it?

Fall, in a font.

Where could I find the tree that produces these leaves?
So painstakingly precise…I’m floored.

Vintage globes, reimagined.

Christopher Niemann’s series of maps are clever, sometimes painfully accurate spoofs of the everyday. 

Ireland, as imagined by illustrator Thereza Rowe.

I wonder how many licks it’d take to get to Tahiti…

A new way to map, courtesy of Ork Posters.

My friend Joe is fascinated with maps, but frustrated by the limitations of their edges. His solution? A continuous, global city:

Collage is a way to bring some vibrancy back to idea of maps. Piecing together scraps of urban fabric is a hunt for new points of continuity and activation. This creative combination doesn’t really play well with borders, and I found that by working on a sphere instead of a plane, I could create an endless collage. After all, a global city has no borders.

Artist Aaron Straup Cope on his map-making perspective: “I’d like to generate map tiles that give you that same dizzy feeling you get when you look down at a city at night, from an airplane.”

Prints of his maps (including one of Los Angeles, shown here) are up for grabs on 20 x 200.