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]]>Since 2012, Fairburn has been turning maps into pieces of art by drawing portraits on them. What makes his works stand out is the fact that he doesn’t ruin the map while doing it. While he makes the changes to roads, contours, and other elements of the map, he also aims to keep it functional.
“I aim to preserve the functionality of each map by feeding the composition instead of fighting it – I often spend hours studying the terrain before I begin any physical processes,” he shares on his website.
Fairburn uses a technique he refers to as “topopointillism,” which represents the combination of topography and pointillism. This includes drawing thousands upon thousands of black ink lines and dots until the shape materializes.
Over the years, Fairburn has collected a great number of maps and now uses his personal collection for the artworks. However, he is always on the lookout for new additions, and according to him, he can immediately spot a map that could be turned into a portrait. Check out more of his works below.
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]]>“When I started taking this design practice seriously, I went in a dozen different directions,” Archambault relayed in an interview with the Ohh Deer blog. “Most of it was type and image with quippy or impactful messages. I made things that were funny, clever, crude, and everything in-between, but the maps were by far the biggest hit and I really enjoyed making them. Then my brain became like this map-thinking machine and I stopped thinking about other things.”
Now, completely hooked on the idea of maps and charts, he travels all over the world, exploring cities and creating more diagrams. After asking residents a lot of questions and thinking really really hard, he assembles to map, referencing current and past maps.
But his maps and diagrams also include other things, that go way beyond geography. “I make letterpress ‘maps from the mind’ of cities, planets, organs, and many other subjects,” he explained. “They’re all super-simple distillations of the complex ideas.”
Take a look at some of the finished results:
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]]>“The ‘maps’ are all divided into different countries and every mountain, every lake, every city and every ocean in these pieces are named after everything relevant to the title of each piece”, DAU-DAW wrote on Bored Panda.
“Take for example Elephantidae – Land of the Elephant. Everything in this ‘map’ is named after both fictional and actual elephant species that are either extinct or still around today.”
The artist shares his work on his Instagram account and on his website. Each masterpiece, where no geographical locations are presented, takes him between a few days and several weeks.
Scroll down to check out his work.
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