Graphic Design: Canadian Air Transit Mapping - Work In Progress

[dewline]

This is part of a map I've been designing with help from assets from Maptorian. I was inspired by a map in the old Dent's Canadian School Atlas devoted to Canadian airline connections across the country, as well as by a recent job interview for a graphic design position.

I'm making this with Adobe Illustrator CS4, in case you're wondering.

Comments

[blogcutter]

That's impressive! I was always miserable at map-drawing (or really any kind of drawing) at school. But I definitely remember our school atlases, which were yellow and black (couldn't tell you if those were the Dent's ones or something else). Along with the Winston's dictionaries with the airplane on the cover. I remember looking up naughty words in there, without success as school dictionaries generally don't have naughty words in them.

[dewline]

Turns out the Internet Archive has Dent's on file. I've added a link to that entry.

[mellowtigger]

Completely unrelated: I've never understood that Alaskan trail-off. The Yukon border really should extend straight south to the Pacific. If we bought that seashore, then why didn't we buy it all the way to the contiguous States?

[dewline]

Short version: blame Great Britain for that decision.

One of several longer version is available at Wikipedia.

[blogcutter]

Turns out I was thinking of the Oxford Canadian School Atlas. Later editions looked a bit like your Dent's link but the earlier ones from the 1960s were indeed yellow and black.