Typographic maps

Axis Maps just released their mapping / art project Typographic Maps. These unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type. Only by manually weaving together thousands upon thousands of carefully placed words does the full picture of the city emerge. Every single piece of type was manually placed, a process that took hundreds of hours to complete for each map.

Take a look at their blog for more on how these maps were made.

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Google Is Crazy About The World Cup

We’ve seen Google change its logo for big events before, but this time it chose to do something different.

If you search for “World Cup" in Google, you’ll get a list of the upcoming World Cup games, but if you scroll to the bottom, you’ll see that the other Google logo, stationed above the result page numbers, has changed to Goooooooal!

Google has also added an awesome little easter egg to the service when one surfs through maps of South Africa: a vuvuzela clutched in peg man’s hot little hands!

Google owned YouTube has also decided to grace us with a dedicated vuvuzela button.
The football-shaped button sits in the lower right corner, and does precisely what you feared: It produces the dreadful vuvuzela sound!

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StreetMuseum: Looking Into The Past With An iPhone App!

The Museum of London has just launched an iPhone app that makes use of its extensive art and photographic collections as well as geo tagging and Google Maps to guide users around London where, via the iPhone screen, you can look into the past! By overlaying old photos, The Museum of London gives you a unique experience, making you want to explore the hidden history of London that surrounds you.

Museum of London: Streetmuseum is available as a free download from iTunes now. You’ll need to own a 3GS to take advantage of the augmented reality option.

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CV On Google Maps

A global CV hosted on Google Maps. Copywriter Ed Hamilton went a long way beyond the classic word document to tell prospective clients about his work.
Check it out.

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Color Codes for The Color Blind

Can you imagine a world without color? From health care to transportation, we rely on it to cue us daily.

Miguel Neiva has created a color coding system to improve daily life for the predominantly male population who experience color blindness. The Color Add Color Identification System offers monochromatic icons to represent a range of colors. Using red, yellow and blue as the foundation, a code is developed in order to create visual icons. These icons can then be included on all color-based systems (from clothing tags to transportation maps) in order to increase accessibility and understanding.

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Just Launched: Monopoly City Streets.

Google teamed up with Monopoly and created an online version of the infamous game. The game uses uses Google Maps as the board and players can choose any street from around the world to buy. You can build football stadiums, skyscrapers and ofcourse the usual houses and hotels. You can even build prisons and rubbish dumps on your opponents' streets! the game is a collaboration between Hasbro and Google. Check it out!

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