Map design files
My design files, public domain’d except certain illos (some are under license).
- 2015 grad school maps, includes Bay Area map. Daniel Huffman provided invaluable guidance while I made these. If you want to learn at close range how to make a beautiful map, give Daniel Huffman whatever money you were going to give an academic program.
- 2016 NorCal map, not my best, not terrible either.
- 2018 shaded relief of California. Nailed the lighting: dusty purple glow. “Background.psb” is the easiest to futz with.
- 2018’s Tree of the Tongass National Forest. Ezra Butt’s letters, Matt Strieby’s tree illos, Aiyana Udesen’s understory illos. Philippe Riviere provided an OGR-mediated tree range sift.
- 2019’s Los Angeles Vegetation. Ezra Butt’s plant illos and letters. Low-pressure sodium glows on SoCal landscaping...........a live oak that can shade a tennis court.....L.A..............
- 2023’s Monterey Bay, CA
- V1: Testing an Eduard relief draped with textured NLCD, plus a Huffman-invented-Churchill-Woodruff-mediated label-helo technique.
- V2: Imitating a 1915 USGS topo