Vism.ag & Creative Maps Blog

Very good music map shared in response to previous 12 Great Music Visualisations utilising the popular and organised form of tube maps, originally by Harry Beck.     The Rockmap is updated regularly by twitter.com/ernestolago and is a good application of the Beck maps. The font for the musicians is clean clear and balanced si es for importance, look like arial rounded, calibri. Not so keen on the red 'rocky' header, the earthy background connotes it well enough, its almost like wolff ollin is it with the highly controversial Olympics logo, no elegance but gets attention and noticed.  

But it is great that it keeps with the 45 degree angling that Beck introduced into map design for connections and that you allowed the band names to follow that angling much in the respect of Mapping the Creative Process achieves. It is a very good appropriating of the style, not too crammed like the 250 best movies of all time map I saw (not that i'm saying yours is bad david h, busy).   Posts and tweets that mention the Rockmap: topsy.com/s?q=rockmap topsy.com/tb/www.flickr.com/photos/ernestolago/4144781475...   thanks ernesto.

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