Scott Reinhard is a New York-based graphic designer with a deep appreciation for the visible enchantment of maps. Previous maps, particularly. And landforms too. He’s merged that appreciation along with his skilled experience with rendering coloration and lightweight to provide these actually beautiful 2D maps that you just’d swear had been 3D. You may virtually really feel the ridgelines and valleys, the rolling hills, even the craters of the moon. Reinhard makes use of topography knowledge from the USGS to precisely depict the elevation modifications masterfully rendered in 2D in his maps. A part of the perform of the maps is to inform a type of geological story of a spot.
The outcomes are breathtaking.
Yellowstone Nationwide Park
“I’m from Indiana, which all the time felt so flat and boring,” he stated in an interview with Colossal. “After I started rendering the elevation knowledge for the state, the story of the land emerged. The glaciers that receded throughout the northern half of the state after the final ice age scraped and gouged and formed the land in a approach that’s spectacularly clear.”
You should buy high-quality prints of those extraordinary maps too, on Reinhard’s web site. He’s coated whole states, particular geologic options, a piece of the moon, even a crater on Mars.
Mount St. Helens
Glacier Nationwide Park
California
Grand Tetons
Yosemite Nationwide Park
Southern California
Australia
Crater Lake
All photos courtesy of Scott Reinhard. You may observe him on Instagram for extra map goodness.
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