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"VanDam's patented Los Angeles Pop-Up maps all of LA’s attractions, neighborhoods, sights, museums, hotels, beaches and more at an immensely legible scale complete with 3-D building illustrations. Each map unfolds to 12 times its original size, then refolds automatically when the covers are closed. Size open is 8.5"" x 11"" per section; 3.75"" x 6"" closed. Eminently clear information design allows users to read the map from three feet away and has earned VanDam maps a place in the MoMA Collection. The map is laminated and easily fits into your shirt pocket or purse.
Coverage includes: West LA Street Map 1:45,000 LA County Area Map 1:450,000 LA Downtown Detail: 1:6,500 West Hollywood/Los Feliz Detail: 1:6,500 Wilshire/Melrose Detail: 1:6,500 Venice Detail: 1.6,500 Pasadena Detail: 1:10,000
Los Angeles Pop-Up covers LA from Beverly Hills to Holmby Hills, Echo Park to Dodger Stadium, Santa Monica to El Segundo, Hancock Park to Los Feliz, West Hollywood to West LA, Downtown to Century City and Pasadena to Pomona. So whether you want to meet friends at the Broad, gallery-hop Downtown, attend a concert at Disney Hall, visit Universal Studios, do the Walk of Fame on Sunset, get from the Gamble House to Muscle Beach in Venice or drive up the coast via Malibu to Topanga Canyon this map will guide you with confidence and ease. Los Angeles Pop-Up Simplicity reigns supreme in cartographic design to make complex cities clear and understandable. Our typography creates character and reveals the true bones of this booming metropolis. VanDam uses a letter grid to identify locations on maps - no confusing and cluttering K-28 or V-34s - its just the city from A-Z. Our covers map the icons of each city and turn them into collectible graphic art. Gain instant LA StreetSmarts and a memorable souvenir to boot! "
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Stephan Van Dam, AIGA is an award-winning cartographer, graphic designer, and information architect. He is the president, principal and creative director of New York-based VanDam Publishing. Twenty-seven of his maps are in the MoMA Collection.
The universal power of maps has been his guiding passion for the past 25 years and fuels his desire to tell stories and construct new realities through maps in all media. He's has mapped over 85 world cities, and holds several patents in the field of paper engineering and origami map folding.
His work has been honored by the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the editors of ID magazine and has been featured on national television and been sighted in numerous feature films.
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The universal power of maps has been his guiding passion for the past 25 years and fuels his desire to tell stories and construct new realities through maps in all media. He's has mapped over 85 world cities, and holds several patents in the field of paper engineering and origami map folding.
His work has been honored by the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), the editors of ID magazine and has been featured on national television and been sighted in numerous feature films.
THE NEW YORK TIMES: Style Makers; Stephan Van Dam, Map Publisher
Stephan Van Dam's career as a map publisher and design entrepreneur began with origami. Such was his fascination with the Japanese art of paper folding that the Swiss-born designer, 30 years old, came up with ''The World Unfolds,'' an award-winning series of maps that presented the lay of the land in major cities in the United States in tidy, fold-up booklets small enough to put in a purse.
Mr. Van Dam's maps hold both a United States patent and a copyright as kinetic sculpture. Now his small publishing house in Manhattan has moved on to what the designer likes to call ''a hip approach to looking at the cosmos.''
His pop-up ''Eco- Guides'' to the ocean, desert, Moon, Mars, universe and rain forest are whimsical, brightly colored investigations of the wonders of earth and sky. They are educational tools as well as graphic design with a social conscience.
Rand McNally he is not. ''We feel information has a lot of play value,'' Mr. Van Dam explained. ''We want to show that there's more than one way to understand something. Hopefully, the guides will make the information more accessible as well as excite, confront, provoke and engage the reader.''
Billed as ''Handy in the Jungle, Handsome in Your Study,'' the ''Rain Forest Unfolds'' guide includes pop-up maps of flora and fauna, rain forest facts and myths and stories. The ''Eco-Guides'' are $9.95 and are sold in museum shops and major bookstore chains.
Mr. Van Dam's own little corner in the map-publishing world is in the meat-market area of Manhattan. That, perhaps, is fate. ''We look down at the bone trucks and think about the cosmos,'' he said. --Patricia Leigh Brown, The New York Times
"The best innovation in map design since the globe was flattened on to paper." --Diversion Magazine
"A magical series...ingenious." --Travel and Leisure Magazine
Stephan Van Dam's career as a map publisher and design entrepreneur began with origami. Such was his fascination with the Japanese art of paper folding that the Swiss-born designer, 30 years old, came up with ''The World Unfolds,'' an award-winning series of maps that presented the lay of the land in major cities in the United States in tidy, fold-up booklets small enough to put in a purse.
Mr. Van Dam's maps hold both a United States patent and a copyright as kinetic sculpture. Now his small publishing house in Manhattan has moved on to what the designer likes to call ''a hip approach to looking at the cosmos.''
His pop-up ''Eco- Guides'' to the ocean, desert, Moon, Mars, universe and rain forest are whimsical, brightly colored investigations of the wonders of earth and sky. They are educational tools as well as graphic design with a social conscience.
Rand McNally he is not. ''We feel information has a lot of play value,'' Mr. Van Dam explained. ''We want to show that there's more than one way to understand something. Hopefully, the guides will make the information more accessible as well as excite, confront, provoke and engage the reader.''
Billed as ''Handy in the Jungle, Handsome in Your Study,'' the ''Rain Forest Unfolds'' guide includes pop-up maps of flora and fauna, rain forest facts and myths and stories. The ''Eco-Guides'' are $9.95 and are sold in museum shops and major bookstore chains.
Mr. Van Dam's own little corner in the map-publishing world is in the meat-market area of Manhattan. That, perhaps, is fate. ''We look down at the bone trucks and think about the cosmos,'' he said. --Patricia Leigh Brown, The New York Times
"The best innovation in map design since the globe was flattened on to paper." --Diversion Magazine
"A magical series...ingenious." --Travel and Leisure Magazine
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- PublisherVanDam, Inc.
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1932527362
- ISBN 13 9781932527360
- BindingMap
- Number of pages4
- EditorStephan Van Dam
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