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Inspiration behind the "Ember" map design
How we designed Ember, the wooden map Maps take in 3 dimensions and spit out 2 dimensions. They can be technical yet visual, informative yet fictional, data-driven yet abstract. Most importantly, they tell stories–where you adopted your darling poodle terrier, where you spent collegiate days drooling on economics notes, where you spilled your IPA on your now-fiancée. As an avid map lover, I was delighted to design an interactive map style for our “choose a place, any place, and we’ll print your map to create a literally one-of-a-kind gift” products. This meant that the map style had to work for...