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World Map Note Cards


As you know, I’ve been fooling around with map art lately. Yesterday and today I’ve been working on the global map series shown above. These would be perfect for note cards – with the map on the outside, and blank inside – for thank you notes and whatnot.*

So I added three new products to my long-ago abandoned cafepress shop with the designs. I like cafepress because I don’t have to do any of the printing or order fulfillment myself. I didn’t mark up the price much at all. Cafepress charges $9.99 for a pack of 10 note cards as their base price and I added a $1.01 mark-up. So they cost $11.00 for a pack of 10. That’s right, I’ll be getting rich soon. You know, if about a million people buy them.

Details
The images were first exported from ArcMap as .ai files at 800 dpi and set to the size of the note cards, which is 4.5″ by 5.75″. Then they were imported into Illustrator where I fooled around with effects until I got them to look much better. I used page 39 and page 35 of Colors For Maps for the colors (except in the case of the black/white map, of course).

If you want to buy some from the store, I’ll be so grateful for the extra coffee money.

my new cafepress store

*Sorry, Glenn (@gletham) but I’m not going to start a line of Target wallpaper anytime soon. :)

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