The Beautiful Mitt Drawn Map Of Reykjavik

The Icelandic collective Borgarmynd has created some beautiful hand-drawn maps. Their Reykjavik Center Map is ane of my favorite e'er online interactive maps.

The Reykjavik Center Map is a hand-drawn watercolor map of the Icelandic capital. The map is made upward of 186 A3 course of report watercolor sheets, which took a squad of architects in addition to designers ii years to complete. To exercise the watercolors Borgarmynd hired a plane to wing over Reykjavik to capture photographs of near every household inward the metropolis from the same angle. They in addition to thus used metropolis planning ground-plans to ensure the accuracy of the completed watercolors.

Every tree, flagpole in addition to other object on the map is based on actual objects inward the city. The map is also updated every twelvemonth to add together newly constructed buildings in addition to other changes to the city, such equally buildings existence repainted inward novel colors.


Borgarmynd is also responsible for Iceland Illustrated, a hand-drawn map of the whole country. As good equally the lovingly hand-drawn Icelandic terrain, the map contains the locations of hotels, restaurants in addition to other points of involvement inward Iceland.

The map also contains or thus 200 photos of Iceland's wonderful natural environment.