I down loaded a file from the corps of engineers called Oversized_Plates. 60 maps in hi-res pdf. Around 70 x 100 +cm. Seems like the resolution is at least 400 dpi, see a little compression distortion at 600% zoom. I reckon you could print out an A2 nicely.
Warning file size around 700mb.
If you want I can send you separate pdfs of the ones you want.
Speaking of acid, 13 mins of loonieness, fast fwd to get to the real loonieness.
You'll have too copy and paste, I can't embed it, can't even create a link :awkward: what am I doing wrong? where's that "how to embed video" video gone?
Mies Hora has been a sign and symbol maven for many years and his company, Ultimate Symbol, has published a number of the most frequently used free-source books and CDs. His recent Official Signs & Icons 2 is a veritable encyclopedia of ubiquitous design. Hora has collected complete sets of household, streetwise, industrial and medical signs–some cautionary, many life-saving. In this interview, he discusses the role of icons in everyday life and the need for sign literacy.
Heller: You have been a signs and symbols obsessive for quite some time. What is the reason for this interest?
Hora: My sensibilities were forged through immersion in my parents’ Charles-and-Ray-Eames-like environment, an alternate universe of visual communication with its own language of form, function, color and symbols. I know of few serious designers who aren't utterly fascinated by the possibilities of communicating meaning without the use of words or letterforms. What we’re really talking about is semiology, or the study and use of signs and symbols, and what they signal.
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60 maps in hi-res pdf. Around 70 x 100 +cm. Seems like the resolution is at least 400 dpi, see a little compression distortion at 600% zoom. I reckon you could print out an A2 nicely.
Warning file size around 700mb.
If you want I can send you separate pdfs of the ones you want.
paula scher hand paints all these typographical maps. reminds me a lot of aboriginal art...
fast fwd to get to the real loonieness.
You'll have too copy and paste, I can't embed it, can't even create a link :awkward:
what am I doing wrong? where's that "how to embed video" video gone?
www.infosthetics.com/archives/2006/11/protein_synthesis_people_chains.html
from nau.
(it was either here, or the motion graphics thread, but i think it's here)
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from http://www.atomike-studio.com/
the feltron annual report
How one clumsy ship cut off the web for 75 million people
almost, right?! duerer
Poster pdf
This map of Iraq from the NYTimes.com visually shows the over 1,900 people killed in Iraq during the month of January 2007.
Full size
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country codes of the world available to buy as a print
more from feltron in the nytimes
these are old, but good - more here