To mark the publication of his first book,17-year-used designer Martin Vargic tells us what inspires his maps, and how he works.[//g.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/fastcompany/imagecache/inline-small/inline/2015/10/3052064-inline-i-1-how-the-internets-most-prolific-map-designer-creates-his-viral-worlds.jpg] Where once they were done under the quill of cartographers, and maps today are made by satellite. But Slovakian designer Martin Vargic's maps are different. Although they herald back to the glory days of map making in an era of romanticism and enlightenment,Vargic's exquisitely detailed maps deals with purely imaginary worlds: ones in which landmasses are made up of tectonic plates of literature, or what the Internet would survey like as a planet.
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