publication
70 pages
design by Jan Pieter Karper Atlas is a project that focuses on the way in which we use language to grasp a space. The drawings in Atlas examine the lingual aspects of maps and mapmaking. By drawing over already pre-existing maps, and taking out only the text that is written on them, the original typography of the words remains: In some of the maps the words have literally adapted their shape to the place they belong to.
Later on, I bundeld the drawings in a publication under the same title. The book comes with an appendix with a poem that Maria Barnas wrote in reponse to the project, and with a poster containing all the names that are written down in the drawings.