As long as I’ve know Jack Schulze, he’s been working with maps. The first one I remember was a way of mapping Barbican, which is a three dimensional architectural maze of a housing and cultural development in central London, and notoriously difficult to find your way around. I’ll get him to dig out the results.
Late last year he started working with James King and Campbell Orme on an equivalent projection of Manhattan. We’ve had huge prints of the results in the studio these last few weeks, and it’s startling to look at: at the bottom of the map, buildings stand in three-dimensions. Then, looking into the distance, the city curls up and around into the sky, smoothly transforming into a more traditional map.
Here’s a detail of that happening:
You should see the entire thing.
ANYWAY. What I mean to say is that, as his friend and business partner, I’m enormously proud to announce the following:
First! Here & There — a horizonless projection in Manhattan is out in the world for people to see.
Second! It is featured in Wired UK magazine, issue 2, which hits the shops today. Not only has it been given a massive gatefold (not kidding, you have to see it), but there’s a photo of Jack with his big blue eyes too. Awww.
Third! Here & There is just too beautiful to keep to ourselves, and too high res to keep to the Web. So we’ve produced a limited run of art prints, and we’re selling them as from today.
Check out the Here & There project website to read more and get prints. Happy day!
13 Comments and Trackbacks
1. Eric Rodenbeck said on 1 May 2009...
So lovely!
2. Lightsurgery said on 1 May 2009...
Very cool. Can you do Rickmansworth next?
3. Ben Brown said on 2 May 2009...
So cool. I love the superpower line. Can’t wait to hang these up on our walls!
4. Tim said on 2 May 2009...
Great stuff! Have you got more technical details to tell?
5. Nico Macdonald said on 2 May 2009...
As a resident of the Barbican, and informal consultant on that still gestating map, can I put in a bid for it to be resurrected. Or a map of the City. Feel free to visit to see the may City maps we have in our apartment, including A Balloon View of London as seen from Hampstead: 1851.
6. Kat Sommers said on 3 May 2009...
Just saw this in Wired! Love the slight sense of vertigo you get as you look up, just like in New York. Congrats, guys.
7. Kern Jones said on 5 May 2009...
Wow – have you seen the interactive version in the sampler to Wired June issue – it’s amazing – you feel like you’re in it. http://www.wired.co.uk/promotions/sampler200906
8. GR said on 5 May 2009...
Have you thought about working with the GPS manufacturers? Can you imagine a real-time view of any ciiy in the world generated this way on your iPhone as you walk? Awesome.
9. Craig Dunn said on 7 May 2009...
Inspired by these awesome maps, a *rough* interactive ‘hampster projection’ of Virtual Earth tiles using Silverlight 3.0 (screencast also provided).
http://conceptdev.blogspot.com/2009/05/silverlight-maps-that-bend-upwards.html
http://conceptdevelopment.net/Silverlight3/MapsThatBend01/
10. Nikolaj Nyholm said on 7 May 2009...
Fantastic – I love maps even more now!
11. meeware said on 11 May 2009...
Reminds me of NASA concept art for living on space colonies- glorious! http://sidearmdesign.com/post/2009/feb/08/nasa-space-colony-1970/
12. Rachel said on 5 June 2009...
Gorgeous, congrats!
13. Craig said on 18 September 2009...
Wow! It is like a ring world from Halo! The curvature of the Earth in reverse. Totally freaky.