I recently saw this artist, Yanko, at a gallery in Scotland. It blew my mind how different regions tend to self select colors that they feel represent themselves and those clusters of color are so intuitive when you look at them on a map. I don’t think I’d have ever viewed it this way if I hadn’t seen it on a map like this. Really interesting to checkout:
Edit: Since this is blowing up, I replaced the first link I lazily found earlier with a better link that won't eat up the artist's bandwidth and I added a link to the artist's website. He's done other cool maps besides the world map. His prints are incredible and have a sort of embossed quality to them IRL.
I think it's neat that after all of the ways people have done maps in the past, this guy still thought up a new way to show us what the world looks like. Glad people enjoy it.
Edit 2: Oh! I forgot to mention, all of the cracks and holes on the countries aren't just some kind of defect of the process. The artist put meticulous detail into representing the rivers and lakes and tiny islands, etc.
myexguessesmyuser on July 29th, 2018 at 17:35 UTC »
I recently saw this artist, Yanko, at a gallery in Scotland. It blew my mind how different regions tend to self select colors that they feel represent themselves and those clusters of color are so intuitive when you look at them on a map. I don’t think I’d have ever viewed it this way if I hadn’t seen it on a map like this. Really interesting to checkout:
https://imgur.com/a/J7kq3t4
Artist's website: http://www.yankotihov.co.uk/passport-maps.html
Edit: Since this is blowing up, I replaced the first link I lazily found earlier with a better link that won't eat up the artist's bandwidth and I added a link to the artist's website. He's done other cool maps besides the world map. His prints are incredible and have a sort of embossed quality to them IRL.
I think it's neat that after all of the ways people have done maps in the past, this guy still thought up a new way to show us what the world looks like. Glad people enjoy it.
Edit 2: Oh! I forgot to mention, all of the cracks and holes on the countries aren't just some kind of defect of the process. The artist put meticulous detail into representing the rivers and lakes and tiny islands, etc.
Porrick on July 29th, 2018 at 18:29 UTC »
So
Three Serbs
Two South Africans
Two Indians
Two from a country I can't identify, that uses Arabic script and has the eagle on it
One Moroccan
One Japanese
One Taiwanese
One Filipina (judging by the hand)
One Thai
One mystery blurry purple passport
Can anyone fill in the gaps?
Deluxe_Flame on July 29th, 2018 at 18:52 UTC »
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