Culture
Wearable Maps of 80 Cities Around the Globe
A U.K. designer is using open data to produce dramatic t-shirts of cities from Phoenix to Beijing.
Graphic designer Alex Szabo-Haslam had trouble finding T-shirts and other goods emblazoned with a map of his hometown, Sheffield, England (“famous for steel, great electronic music, and terrible football teams,” he says). He decided to print his own.
Using data from OpenStreetMap, Szabo-Haslam’s line of Citees shirts depicts nearly 80 cities around the globe. “The way I work is quite obsessive,” he says. “Things got a little out of hand.”