Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the winner of the 2016 Good Design Grand Award, one of the most prestigious design awards in Japan.It preserves the ...

The Authagraph World Map: not much use for navigation, but a very clever way of projecting the globe onto a flat surface without size distortion. Authagraph. 5 / 12.

Unlike the standard map of the world, designed in the 1500s, ... You can pick up your own copy of the AuthaGraph world map here. Source: Spoon & Tamago via Gizmodo. Jay Bennett.

AuthaGraph. To design a map of the world is no easy task. Because maps represent the spherical Earth in 2D form, they cannot help but be distorted, which is why Greenland and Antarctica usually ...

Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to. Seen in rectangular form, Antarctica is intact and at the bottom right. The Americas and ...

THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...

His map, the AuthaGraph World Map, isn’t your average map of the globe: It’s a near-perfect representation of the continents and oceans as they exist on our spherical planet, all laid out on a ...

The AuthaGraph World Map “faithfully represents all oceans and continents including the neglected Antarctica,” according to the award’s website. It’s not a perfect map, ...

And AuthaGraph aims to provide a map where each of these interests is more accurately understood and represented on the globe. So, if you'd like to educate yourself on what the world actually ...

It can be easy to forget, when looking at maps of the world, that the earth looks completely different. In flattening the curved surface of the earth, cartographers often sacrifice scale for size ...

AuthaGraph world map with proportional sea and continents, showing how it can be folded from tetrahedrons “Japan is at the centre in our world map; on the left, Russia, and on the right, America.