Wild world is the creation of Anton Thomas. The map shows 1,642 animals in their native region. Armed with colored pencils and inspired by a childhood passion for geography Thomas created a cartographic masterpiece.
Nice write up from the New York Times:
So Mr. Thomas set himself guidelines. Animals should be native to their location and neither domesticated nor extinct. The names of places would, where possible, be the ones preferred by their inhabitants. Human-made borders do not feature. (In practice, this meant both names appear; the thylacine does not; and a Cantabrian brown bear supplanted the toro.)
Illustrated maps like Mr. Thomas’s are powerful in part because they mimic how the human brain perceives the world, said John Roman, an artist-cartographer in Boston and the author of “The Art of Illustrated Maps.”
Explore more on AntonThomasArt.com, h/t flowing data
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