Maps and stuff. Fun things.
In my continued obsession with Tree Ring Symbols, I’ve taken the seasonal tornado Tree Ring map and sliced it up into frames. The tornado season is like a wave that forms in the gulf, crashes over middle America, then rolls back to the sea. There are a million ways to show movement (here are some … Continue reading Animated Tornado Tree Rings
Tree Ring Symbology uses a series of ring symbols, chronologically increasing in size like the growth rings of a tree. Color and/or thickness then encode some data variable. This map uses a variant, where instead of scaling the rings chronologically, like a tree, they are scaled by local aggregated tornado intensity, while the colors indicate … Continue reading Tree Ring Symbology
Here is a map of the seasonal migration that tornadoes take. Tornado migrations can be mapped like birds or wildebeests or commuters. Like just about everything else on this amazing planet of ours, they have a seasonal circuit and an ebb and flow. I live in Michigan, where I’m coming out of another winter. Believe … Continue reading Tornado Migration
I had the opportunity this past Monday to collaborate with my father on a series of maps. Of course, that’s just a great thing in itself, but what made it even more fun was that we were illustrating a section of a paper he wrote in 1992. In it, he and some of his geography … Continue reading Collaborating with Dad
Sure, you could make a map that looks like a globe. But the thing about globes is that they are round and live in the real world. What if you smacked a real world image behind your globish map to give is a palpable sense of context? Well, you just might fake people out, which … Continue reading Englobification
This map was one of a handful preliminary test map styles for a project. I was happy with the slightly lithographic quality and the strong framing of the state. You can follow the creation steps of this map here if you’d like to give the style a go for yourself, or if you’re just curious. … Continue reading Physical Map of Wyoming
