AuthaGraph. To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually ...

The Japan Institute for Design Promotion has awarded its prestigious Good Design Award to a map that completely changes our perception of the world. Given that the planet is a sphere, representing ...

Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

In the case of the actual, literal world, that way involved projecting it onto an icosahedron and unfolding it into two-dimensions to reveal the planet’s continents as “one island” of near ...

Cid told Fast Company that the design is based on a diagram of the Tokyo Metro System. He and his team have been building out the imaginary cartography of the map by focusing the world’s oldest ...

"Up until now, we've had a better map of Mars than we've had of Antarctica," Ian Howat, earth science professor at Ohio State, said in a statement. "Now it is the best-mapped continent on Earth." ...

Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million years ago and ...

David Rumsey Map Collection. In 1587, a Milanese scholar named Urbano Monte created a huge map of the world, drawn with meticulous and colorful detail on 60 sheets of paper.