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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Flowing City

A drop of water turns into a flood on this micro-city coaster. Here, the city of taipei, taiwan is re-sized into a coaster.

Condensation from the cup slowly floods the city. The water first fills up the river and slowly works its way into the narrower streets and alleys. Enjoy the view from above!

Get it here.

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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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