Sacramento, California

The colors of California come out in this map--one of a series produced for the Sacramento Convention and Visitors Bureau. The map found a home in both the printed visitor guide and the CVB's website.

The maps also included custom symbols.

Manhattan Beach, California

This overview map was done for ING Financial Services. It uses transparency and vignettes to give it an illustrated appearance.

McKinney, Texas

One of the 75 chamber of commerce maps we produce, this map of McKinney was produced in several versions. One was a city map atlas, another was a web map, and a third was a print map for the CVB.

Click below to open a new window with a map showing all of our chamber clients.

Tullahoma, Tennessee

Muted browns and greens give a subtle look to this map of Tullahoma.

This two-sided map included local advertising and was printed on tearsheet pads that were distributed to local merchants.

SCIARC

A terrain image forms the background of this location map of Los Angeles.

SCIARC, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, is an independent, nonprofit school with undergraduate and graduate programs in architecture.

NewOrleans.com

The premier travel site for New Orleans asked us to create a vibrant, colorful map marking key tourism destinations in the city. Visit their site here.

Clearwater Film Festival

Featuring sea foam, aquatic animals, and palms, this visitor's map for the film festival was used in both the printed guide and festival website.

Jackson County, North Carolina

For this annual magazine published by The Sylva Herald entitled "Across the Mountains," we produced a vibrant terrain image as a backdrop to the outdoor culture of the area.

Parkersburg, West Virginia

Parkersburg's Visitor Guide includes an area map we made featuring a terrain image with the counties accentuated graphically.

Arizona

The ACERT map of Arizona provides a comprehensive guide to the cultural and recreation resources of the state. It has proven popular with in-state and out-of-state visitors.

Holt Rinehart Winston

Holt Rinehart Winston requested a map showing the territorial status of the United States for a history textbook. Our map includes natural terrain shading and terrain colored by historical category.

Nevada

This overview map of Nevada was produced for a hiking book of Southern Nevada by Adler Publishing.

Aquaball

With clouds and other special effects, this illustration is a variation on the typical earth-sphere image.

The image used Adobe Illustrator's 3D effect to wrap a conventional map projection around a sphere, an SVG filter, and vector bristle brushes to create the clouds.

Two-World Globe

This trick projection shows both hemispheres as though they were on the same side of the globe.

It's been used in print and on the web.

Artistic Map

As a guide to a wine region in California, this digital map was rendered using an oil painting technique.

Software used included Corel Painter, Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Illustrator.

We specialize in making custom artistic maps.

Golf Course Community

Twelve Oaks, near Raleigh, North Carolina, needed a digital map that could be changed as the community developed.

We produced the map using custom textures that gave the background a natural look while maintaining the editability of the master file.

Parks and Trails

Frisco, Texas, requested a two-sided map highlighting their parks and city trails.

We used city data to map the trail routes and designed custom symbols for parks and resources.

Courtroom Graphic

Our courtroom maps and graphics are designed to be accurate and visually persuasive.

These kinds of graphics, called "demonstrative evidence," are used in pre-trial witness preparation, negotiations, and trial presentation.

Sacramento Flash Interactive Map

Detail from Flash map of Downtown Sacramento. Users can hover over or click point-of-interest icons to pop up information windows.

View the live demo.

Madison Custom Google Map

Detail from custom Google map of Madison, Alabama. By clicking point-of-interest icons, users pop up information windows.

What's different than the usual Google map you see? Custom icons and a custom color scheme for the city areas and roads.

Check out the live demo (opens in a new window).

Clearwater Film Festival

Detail from the Flash map for the Clearwater Film Festival. This non-interactive map accompanied the printed Festival guide.

The advantage of Flash was that map viewers could zoom in and see a sharp image of text and graphics as they browsed the map.