Description: Dymaxion Woodocean World by Nicole Santucci Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion. From 2013 this is a rare poster to find. Been framed ever since and will ship in poster tube. Mint This is map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures has won a competition to reinvent the tessellated world map designed 70 years ago by American architect and visionary designer R. Buckminster Fuller (+ slideshow). First presented in 1943, Fuller's Dymaxion Map projects the world map onto the surface of a three-dimensional icosahedron that can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It is said to be the first two-dimensional map of the entire surface of Earth that reveals our planet as one, without inaccurately distorting or splitting up the land. A team comprising designer Nicole Santucci and San Francisco firm Woodcut Maps was selected as the winner of the Dymax Redux competition to redesign the seminal map, which was launched in April by the Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in New York to coincide with the map's 70th anniversary. The winning design, called Dymaxion Woodocean World, illustrates forest densities across the world through the use of different coloured wood textures. Darker wood refers to a higher ratio of trees to land space. "Nicole Santucci and team created a wonderful display of global forest densities, an ever-increasing important issue with the continued abuses of deforestation," said the BFI. "What's more an actual woodcut version of the map was made in the process, allowing the 2D version to transform into an icosahedral globe," the institute added.
Price: 500 USD
Location: Surprise, Arizona
End Time: 2024-02-21T22:25:19.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Type: Poster
Year of Production: 2013
Subject: World Map
