And thanks to a clever architect in Tokyo, we have a map that could change the world — or at least how we picture it. Created by Hajime Narukawa, the AuthaGraph World Map was announced as the ...

Winner of the Japan Institute of Design Promotion's Good Design Award for 2016, meet the Authagraph World Map: The Authograph World Map: looks weird, but all proportions are very close to correct ...

Thus the AuthaGraphic world map provides an advanced precise perspective of our planet." AuthaGraph The current standard for world maps, the Mercator projection, was developed by Flemish ...

Maps have a way of distorting our perception of the world. But AuthaGraph is trying to bring us back to reality with a new map that accurately depicts the size of continents in comparison to each ...

The AuthaGraph World Map tries to correct these issues, showing the world closer to how it actually is in all its spherical glory. Created by Hajime Narukawa at Keio University's Graduate School ...

The citation says: "AuthaGraph faithfully represents all ... "Thus the AuthaGraphic world map provides an advanced precise perspective of our planet." It can be improved further by increasing ...

Called the AuthaGraph, the result is a world map that looks a little different than most of us are used to. Seen in rectangular form, Antarctica is intact and at the bottom right. The Americas and ...

The AuthaGraph, which depicts the continents ... we do not meet an end," the item’s description reads. "Thus the world map reproduces the spherical world without dead end on a plane." ...

The AuthaGraph World Map “faithfully represents all oceans and continents including the neglected Antarctica,” according to the award’s website. It’s not a perfect map, but to even get as ...

His creation is based on the AuthaGraph projection method ... The Mercator map, the 447-year-old traditional map of the world, has been considered inaccurate for many years, mainly because ...

His map, the AuthaGraph World Map, isn’t your average map of the globe: It’s a near-perfect representation of the continents and oceans as they exist on our spherical planet, all laid out on a ...