Texas Designer’s Map of the World by DJ Stout - pentagram
Rainbow Map of Europe, depicting the 2012 index of LGBT rights.
Also see this infographic from The Guardian and this typographic nod from the Obama campaign.
For those of us without supernatural eyesight, here’s what the description says:
“The scale rates each country’s legislation and administrative practices which protect or violate the human rights of LGBTI people according to 42 categories. It ranks each country on a scale between 30 (the highest possible score indicating full legal protection and equality for LGBTI people) and -12 (the lowest possible score indicating gross violations of rights and legal discrimination against LGBTI people).”
Also, why is Vatican City not on this map?
A geologic map of Mars viewed from above the northern polar ice cap, based on surveys from the Viking orbiter spacecrafts, with colors depicting rock type (lithology), rock layers (stratigraphy), and structure. Part of a collection of artistic planetary maps, and a fine addition to the map as art.
Around the World in 80 Days after the Novel by Jules Verne
Chromolithograph game board, Paris: c. 1904-15
No, it isn’t.
“This chart finally delivers a crushing blow to the lunatic theory that Israel is round and rotates around the Sun. The country is just too important to be bent into a sphere and tossed around in space.”