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November 9, 2015

Vintage Infodesign [138] Old Map, Charts and Graphics

Filed under: Graphics,Maps,Visualization — Patrick Durusau @ 11:50 am

Vintage Infodesign [138] Old Map, Charts and Graphics by Tiago Veloso

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Those who follow these weekly updates with vintage examples of information design know how maps fill a good portion of our posts. Cartography has been having a crucial role in our lives for centuries and two recent books help understand this influence throughout the ages: The Art of Illustrated Maps by John Roman, and Map: Exploring The World, featuring some of the most influential mapmakers and institutions in history, like Gerardus Mercator, Abraham Ortelius, Phyllis Pearson, Heinrich Berann, Bill Rankin, Ordnance Survey and Google Earth.

Gretchen Peterson reviewed the first one in this article, with a few questions answered by the author. As for the second book recommendation, you can learn more about it in this interview conducted by Mark Byrnes with John Hessler, a cartography expert at the Library of Congress and one of the people behind the book, published in CityLab. Both publications seem quite a treat for map lovers and additions to

All delightful and instructive but I think my favorite is How Many Will Die Flying the Atlantic This Season? (Aug, 1931).

The cover is a must see graphic/map.

It reminds me of the over-the-top government reports on terrorism which are dutifully parroted by both traditional and online media.

Any sane person who looks at the statistics for causes of death in Canada, the United States and Europe, will conclude that “terrorism” is a government-fueled and media-driven non-event. Terrorist events should qualify as Trivial Pursuit questions.

The infrequent victims of terrorism and their families deserve all the support and care we can provide. But the same is true of traffic accident victims and they are far more common than victims of terrorism.

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