{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urban Design"],"cover":{"alt":"Landform Typography","height":840,"src":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet1.jpg","width":1880},"credit":"","date":"2010-05-26T13:48:14Z","description":"Rhett Dashwood seems to be really bored. In seven months of painstaking work, the creative director finished his “Google Maps Typography” alphabet. Wow!","html":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the \u003ca href=\"/letters-bookshelf-by-pieter-de-leeuw/\"\u003etypography-inspired bookshelf\u003c/a\u003e by Pieter de Leeuw and the great \u003ca href=\"/type-the-sky-lisa-rienermann/\"\u003e“Type the Sky”\u003c/a\u003e photos by Lisa Rienermann I will show you another alternative typography project, which is called \u003cem\u003eGoogle Maps Typography\u003c/em\u003e\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreative director \u003ca href=\"http://rhettdashwood.com.au/16575/Google-Maps-Typography\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRhett Dashwood\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e, who is interested in creative media, including interactive, animation, branding, print, film making and digital art, was a bit bored in October 2008 and started for this reason to search for some letter-like landmarks and buildings in Google Maps. When he finished seven month later, in April 2009, he had created his own bird’s-eye perspective landform typography alphabet\u0026hellip;fantastic, isn’t it?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you think, you could do that even better, write me an e-mail and send me your result! Nothing is impossible\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure class=\"archive-figure historical-figure\"\u003e\u003cpicture style=\"--image-width: 2600px; --image-ratio: 2600 / 4496\" data-source-width=\"2600\" data-source-height=\"4496\" data-width-cap=\"1440\" data-height-cap=\"4496\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/avif\" srcset=\"/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_9f7a06f35211b127.avif 480w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_b7533adfa7b45d93.avif 960w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_c369585913f9a917.avif 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003csource type=\"image/webp\" srcset=\"/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_bf1831f3cf9401e0.webp 480w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_ab7bf74e13b28d84.webp 960w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_23ea59c37087dce.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg src=\"/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_16790b5cecbf20ec.jpg\" srcset=\"/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_842b41aa556638fc.jpg 480w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_46e8c53149fc16c5.jpg 960w, /landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet_hu_16790b5cecbf20ec.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) calc(100vw - 36px), min(960px, calc(100vw - 96px))\" width=\"1440\" height=\"2490\" alt=\"typographically landmarks\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\u003e\n\u003c/picture\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003etypographically landmarks\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nAfter the [typography-inspired bookshelf](/letters-bookshelf-by-pieter-de-leeuw/) by Pieter de Leeuw and the great [“Type the Sky”](/type-the-sky-lisa-rienermann/) photos by Lisa Rienermann I will show you another alternative typography project, which is called *Google Maps Typography*...\n\nCreative director [**Rhett Dashwood**](http://rhettdashwood.com.au/16575/Google-Maps-Typography), who is interested in creative media, including interactive, animation, branding, print, film making and digital art, was a bit bored in October 2008 and started for this reason to search for some letter-like landmarks and buildings in Google Maps. When he finished seven month later, in April 2009, he had created his own bird’s-eye perspective landform typography alphabet...fantastic, isn’t it?\n\nIf you think, you could do that even better, write me an e-mail and send me your result! Nothing is impossible...\n\n![typographically landmarks](\u003chttps://www.urbanartcore.com/landform-typography/google-maps-alphabet.jpg\u003e)\n\ntypographically landmarks ","tags":["Typography","Photography","Land Art"],"title":"Landform Typography","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/landform-typography/"}