THE 61st ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF JSSD
Session ID : B4-01
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Host: Japanese Society for the Science of Design
Atlas as visual text
Erwin Raiszs Atlas of the Global Geography, 1944
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Host: Japanese Society for the Science of Design
This study considers the content, design and context of “Atlas of the Global Geography” (1944) as a visual ‘text’ designed by Erwin Raisz, an influential American cartographer in the Air-Age periods. Compared with the other atlases such as R. E. Harrison’s “Look at the World” published in the same year, while the globe–images were commonly used to show ‘shrinking–world’, the content of Raisz’s atlas, echoed a contemporary world view “One World” symbolically advocated by W. Willkie, characterizes Raisz’s among others. The various visualizing methods of data used in the atlas, also attribute to Raisz’s, which can be defined as ‘realism in cartography’.
