18 May 2011
Google Maps Typography
“Finding Typography in Google Maps Aerial Photographs”
This is pretty cool. Aussie artist Rhett Dashwood spent about six months, poring over Google Maps, to compile this landscape alphabet. Some ‘letters’ work better than others, and I reckon it would work better with more instantly recogniseable landmarks. But nonetheless, another one of those really simple ideas to file under "Why didn’t I think of that?"