{"author":"Jan Brennenstuhl","categories":["Urban Design"],"cover":{},"credit":"","date":"2009-08-22T16:08:24Z","description":"With typography you can do a lot of great things. A few days ago Mark A. Webber finishes his giant typographic, linocut map of Paris. It’s amazing...","html":"\u003cp\u003eAbout four months has \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandrewwebber/\"\u003eMark Andrew Webber\u003c/a\u003e spent to design his new artwork and the past two months he carves it: An enormous linocut map of Paris!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut that’s not the highlight! The whole map is a typographic interpretation of the French street and building names. With its 1.8 metres across, it’s an fantastic artwork!\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“With this Paris map, I\u0026rsquo;ve tried my hardest to make it accurate, but I\u0026rsquo;m not a French speaker so it\u0026rsquo;s bloody hard. It\u0026rsquo;s just a lot of checking and I\u0026rsquo;d rather like the pieces to not have to be chopped up, as that kind of ruins it.” (\u003ca href=\"http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/massive-printer\"\u003eMark A. Webber\u003c/a\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently, Mark is searching a giant printmaker (150cm+) to make some prints.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVia \u003ca href=\"http://www.veer.com/more/3432\"\u003eVeer.com\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","markdown":"\n\n\n\nAbout four months has [Mark Andrew Webber](http://www.flickr.com/photos/markandrewwebber/) spent to design his new artwork and the past two months he carves it: An enormous linocut map of Paris!\n\nBut that’s not the highlight! The whole map is a typographic interpretation of the French street and building names. With its 1.8 metres across, it’s an fantastic artwork!\n\n\u003e “With this Paris map, I've tried my hardest to make it accurate, but I'm not a French speaker so it's bloody hard. It's just a lot of checking and I'd rather like the pieces to not have to be chopped up, as that kind of ruins it.” ([Mark A. Webber](http://creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/july1/massive-printer))\n\nRecently, Mark is searching a giant printmaker (150cm+) to make some prints.\n\nVia [Veer.com](http://www.veer.com/more/3432)\n","tags":["Typography","Print","Street Art Paris","Art Map"],"title":"Linocut, Typography, Paris","url":"https://www.urbanartcore.com/linocut-typography-paris/"}