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Sailing
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Cardinal marks
Some weeks ago, I was invited to a sailing school inauguration party: laughter, sailing theory games, and alcohol—because sailors always like to be associated with pirates Walking down the old brick corridor between the small library and the scholars’ classroom, I saw the usual school prints with nautical maps, old sail-race photos in black and…
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Sailing poster July 2022 edition
Glad to present a new small but not so small update on the “All the Sailing on a Single Map” poster infographic. Every small update need recomposite lots of elements of the illustration, and it takes time. Weather section redesigned: wind strength now also shows visually its scale with the windsock rings. Each ring indicates…
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Sailing poster ancestor
I found out something interesting today, and fascinating. Something which witnessed the fact that time pass but design universals returns. I was contacted by a map collector, hunting for a treasure. He showed me a digital scan of an old lythography poster, from 1850, a map very similar to my work: “LWAP All the sailing…
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America’s cup edition
Poster updated 09/03/2021, America’s cup Edition A while ago on the island of Seuraasari, Finland, I met an artist craftsman building ships in the bottles. He asked me if I knew the trick… The answer is quite simple but the final result still smacks of magic and ancient sea legends…
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Monkey fist, sails and all the knots on a single rope
The monkey fist has always been my favorite knot. One of the most difficult to achieve: I spent a whole summer in the 90’s to accomplish a sufficient one. With a ball of paper in the center, or better, a lead ball. Because the monkey fist, a perfect sphere made of tighten rope necks, resembling…
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Layline, tallship sails, restyling
The August 2018 version of the “all the sail in a single map” poster is ready. The day when I was drawing the illustrations in the weather section, and the cumulonimbus specifically, it happened the same evening that I met a real one, as it could have taken out exactly from my infographic map. Shortly…
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Galea, eight figure, block
All about sailing in a poster updated! A new piece of sailing history is in the illustrated timeline: roman galea with its typical rostrum and bow eye. I added a block and connected with the figure eight knot, making the bottom right frame even more appealing. Some improvements in lettering and on some details on…
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Apparent wind and lettering
All about sailing in a poster infographic updated to version 1.37! Adding terms is getting more and more difficult everytime. Because I’m trying to connect and integrate with the existing elements, more than expanding.
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“All about sailing” poster infographic update
Update 28/08/2016, ver. 1.36 Added some nautical terms and minor fixes on the english version. I removed the previous generic oar boat and drew dinghy boat with a mast. Islands directions are bigger and added to the legenda as “local informations”. And most important, the illustrations now covers over the margins. On the left the…