Software: MAPublisher, ArcMap, Blender, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign
Client: The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philanthropic Partnership
My requirements for this project were vague. The client wanted “a big beautiful map people will want to put on their walls,” and to only label the parks. The final is 31.5” tall, so I modeled a custom, high-res basemap in Blender using a digital elevation model combined with heavily-edited satellite imagery. My goal was to be as descriptive as possible with the topography and coastline to make up for the lack of context. I later designed my own horizontal version for Instagram that labels a handful of other features.