I had the pleasure of collaborating with an amazing designer, Megan Mardiney, in creating this ambitious 8 ft by 10 ft map installation. It’s located in the museum at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, on Liberty St. in Manhattan.
The NY Fed helps implement US monetary policy (regarding interest rates, inflation, treasury bonds, etc). This map represents the region they encompass,: NY State, Puerto Rico. the Virgin Islands, as well as parts of CT and NJ. The NY Fed maintains a healthy dialogue with the people, businesses and local governments throughout this territory. They promote sound economic decision-making.
This museum educates people about the role of the Federal Reserve, as well as how our economy works. The vignettes on this map represent various industries, landmarks and animals of the region. Enormous thanks to Megan and Kerwin Adduru for including me in this amazing project. You can visit their website here!
This design was inspired by a vintage postcard map of NY State
A closeup detail. The little town where I live is located on the upper right, just above Poughkeepsie.
Megan Mardiney and her design teams added wonderful details to this map
An example of one of the vignette illustrations on the map, a gorge in Watkins Glen, NY
An example of one of the vignette illustrations on the map, City Hall in Buffalo, NY
a montage of dry-brush drawings before I colored them.
Here is one of three layout ideas I submitted for this project.
I started this project by submitting dozens and dozens of vignette=ideas for this map.
Thank you so much for visiting. More about this project to come soon!