Cartogram Press

Plates from an atlas that never existed.

Nº V · The BarrierFramed 18 × 24 — presentation render; photographs follow with the first printing.

The Pattern Index

Fourteen plates. Fourteen causal patterns that explain the map — each proved by a single place, captioned by its rule.

Nº I

Chokepoint Leverage

The Strait of Hormuz — a fifth of the world’s oil through one narrow door

Nº II

Navigable Water

The Mississippi system — the harvest floats to a warm-water port

Nº III

Downstream Dependence

The Nile — Egypt lives downstream of everything it drinks

Nº IV

The Corridor

The North European Plain — the flat road armies have used both ways

Nº V

The Barrier

The Himalayas — the wall that keeps two billion people apart

Nº VI

Access to the Sea

The Black Sea — a fleet caged behind another power’s straits

Nº VII

The Moat

The English Channel — the invasion that keeps not happening

Nº VIII

Drawn Borders

The Radcliffe Line — five weeks of drawing, a century of consequence

Nº IX

The Resource Prize

The Caspian — a legal definition worth billions of barrels

Nº X

Where People Cluster

Egypt — ninety-five percent of a nation on four percent of its land

Nº XI

Distance Decay

Russia — depth as doctrine, distance as the oldest ally

Nº XII

The Shatterbelt

The Balkans — where empires’ edges grind and sparks carry

Nº XIII

Engineered Geography

The Suez Canal — geography, dug by hand in ten years

Nº XIV

The Override

The Korean Peninsula — one geography, a seventy-five-year experiment

The paperArchival giclée on 308 gsm cotton rag — museum stock, not poster stock.

The sizes11 × 14 in · 18 × 24 in · 18 × 24 in framed — solid-wood frames, anti-reflective glass.

The pressPrinted to order at fine-art plants in the US and EU; a plate damaged in transit is reprinted, free.

The pricingSet with the first printing — the launch list sees prices first, before the press opens.

Collect the Index

Fourteen numbered plates, one per pattern — an open edition, printed to order. A cased Portfolio Edition of 250 follows the singles. Set pricing (any three, or the fourteen) arrives with launch.

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First pricing, first printing numbers — list members are served first.

Commissioned Plates

Your place, surveyed in the house style — the extent composed by a cartographer’s hand, not a crop box. Opening soon.

The Survey Plate · The Place Note · The Crossing — commissions open with the press. Meanwhile, the atlas is free to roam: the stories · the daily.