Bahamas Maps

Sunday, February 26, 2012

One fun project this month was somewhat of a challenge for me. I had a blank canvas of walls in a workout room. All the walls are 14 feet high, and somehow I needed to fill them with a map of the Bahamas. I decided to get from the client the island chains that he most frequented and those that are special to him. Having done this, I proposed that we imagine the walls as if they were showing parts of a table top that has maps laid on top of one another in an overlapped pattern.

We also wanted to create a look of antique old maps. For this I researched many old maps and used lots of the interesting compasses and drawings on them. I also found some ships that I reduced down to just a tone on tone look.