On March 2nd, 2011, MAPS AND CALENDARS…

  maps

Dymaxion map locating upcoming projects and three years of my iCal calendar giving me a calming pleasant feeling in the studio

…are what surround me now and, graphically speaking, are what give me the most visual and conceptual pleasure these days (maybe because I am a hyper-organized planning-freak who enjoys nothing more than the feeling that I am figuring out my life by figuring out my calendar and plotting my moves on a map), with one wall covered by three years of my life in the form of my detailed iCal calendar print-out and on the other wall locating my upcoming projects with red arrows on my all time favorite graphic / cartographic creation – Buckminster Fuller‘s 1946 patented Dymaxion map – which triangulates the globe into a consistently distorted flat projection where the triangles can move around so that anyone or any nation can be in the center, with every one and every nation equally distorted, unlike those olden timey maps where ‘you’ are always in the middle undistorted and every one else is peripheral and sort of misshapen.