Mega map!

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Saturday's Globe And Mail featured an enormous map filling a double-page spread of the paper. The brief was to create an antiquated naval map for a feature on China's rapidly increasing naval power.



Built mostly in Photoshop with labels, icons etc added in Illustrator, the map took me nearly three days to produce and came in at a whopping 186 MB.

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