More Accurate World Map Wins Prestigious Design Award
The AuthaGraph map is the most accurate map you’ll ever see. You probably won’t like it.
You probably don’t realize it, but virtually every world map you’ve ever seen is wrong. And while the new AuthaGraph World Map may look strange, it is in fact the most accurate map you’ve ever seen.
The world maps we’re all used to operate off of the Mercator projection, a cartographic technique developed by Flemish geographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. This imperfect technique gave us a map that was “right side up,” orderly, and useful for ship navigation (because it kept longitudes consistent and the angle from any point to the North Pole constant) — but also one that distorted both the size of many landmasses and the distances between them.
To correct these distortions, Tokyo-based architect and artist Hajime Narukawa created the AuthaGraph map over the course of several years using a complex process that essentially amounts to taking the globe (more accurate than any Mercator map) and flattening it out…
BELLA /// from twilight 2008 ~
Oh hi.. I decided to draw Bella from every part of the saga. I hope I’ll not leave this idea (haha) . And I want to confess my love for this film. Atmosphere, aesthetics, camera work, soundtracks, scenes, landscapes, characters, 2008, Charley.
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