Map enthusiast and researcher Kerim Bayer created a book for the Istanbul Design Biennial using 5,180 thumbnail images taken from his massive map collection. By deconstructing the large-scale maps, he hopes that designers will able to treat the book as an abstract design resource.
"Although presented in a book the size of an atlas, it contains not maps of countries but maps of the graphic devices we use to translate and produce spatial information: lines, dots, colours, symbols, illustrations, shading, text, insets, hachures, legends, grids and contours"
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