The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

The AuthaGraph World Map Projection by Hajime Narukawa is the winner of the top prize at this year's Good Design Awards. To create the map, Narukawa projected the world map on a flat surface, ...

A Japanese designer created a highly accurate world map. The 2D representation can be folded into spheres and shapes, maintaining the world's proportions in the process.

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, ...

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.

The AuthaGraph map, designed by Hajime Narukawa. Photo: Courtesy of ... Design Promotion has awarded its prestigious Good Design Award to a map that completely changes our perception of the world.

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.

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 ...

At least that's the thinking behind the AuthaGraph World Map, this year's grand prize winner of Japan's prestigious Good Design award, an annual competition hosted by the Japan Institute for ...

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 ...