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Typographic Map of Chicago

Every street, park, and shoreline drawn entirely in type. Printed at 12×18 and 24×36 inches.

Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. With the map focused, use the arrow keys to pan, + and − to zoom, and 0 to reset. Printed at 24 × 36 in.

Chicago's world-class Museum Campus, Millennium Park and other popular areas are depicted on the map in big, bold text. Off shore, waves of text undulate through Lake Michigan. Get up close and see all of the neighborhood and street names in this part of the city intricately and colorfully woven together, including the Loop, Gold Coast, Michigan Avenue, and Lake Shore Drive.

The map is based on place names and geography as they appear in OpenStreetMap.

Editions

  • Colour edition201024 × 36 in
  • Night edition201024 × 36 in
  • Letterpress edition201218 × 24 inLetterpress · edition of 50, signed and numbered