It was a distinct honor to be asked to create the map for Michael Crichton’s “Pirate Latitudes.”  The completed manuscript was found after his death in November 2008, and is already in the works to become a major motion picture.  Like all good pirate stories this one takes place in the Caribbean and along the Spanish Main.

A few places on the map are fictional locations, which had to be located based on the manuscript.  Without the assistance of Mr. Crichton it took some time to piece together the travel of the characters to figure out where he intended these fictional places to be located.

You can see a larger image in the portfolio.

Like her politics or not, Sarah Palin has made an indelible mark on the American political landscape.  Part of that landscape was her Alaskan identity.  We were contracted by HarperCollins to create a map showing a polar view illustrating Alaska’s relationship to Russia and Europe in particular.

The book publishing schedule was moved up from the spring of 2010 to November 17th, 2009 so we only had a few days to pull this map together.  We  used a polar equidistant azimuthal map projection centered on the North Pole to show Alaska’s position in the world.

You can see the full map in our portfolio.

The story of Captain “Sully” Sullenberger safely landing US Air flight 1549 on the Hudson River is probably not news to anyone, but today his first-person account of the ordeal is released as “Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters” from HarperCollins Publishers.

We are very excited to have been a part of this book, creating the map of the route of flight 1549.  We used data published by the NTSB from the black box recorder to recreate the route, along with notes from Captain Sullenberger to annotate the events of that day.

The map was created in an oblique 3-dimensional style to help illustrate the flight path and hopeful give a sense of place to this event.