Maps & Cartography

Milltown Aerial Perspective

Mill Town Aerial Perspective

An educational textbook publisher contracted Randal for an aerial perspective map of a typical mill town for use in a textbook. Randal made up the view based upon elements required by the publisher in order to visually illustrate the textbook lesson. Randal used Fractal Painter software on a Macintosh computer using a Wacom tablet to [...]

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Historic Jamestowne Aerial Perspective

Historic Jamestowne Aerial Perspective

Randal Birkey created this aerial perspective of the archaelogical site at Jamestowne, Virginia, located in the Colonial Historic National Park. The image was used in a textbook for children studying this first English settlement in the New World. Read more about it here: Historic Jamestowne View Larger Map

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City Hall Floor Plan

City Hall Floor Plan - thumbnail

On the Sustainable City project mentioned below, a close up floor plan of City Hall was required to illustrate how a municipality need to allocate political resources and energy toward building a more sustainable community. Randal did a floor plan of a typical City hall building to illustrate the office space dedicated to a city [...]

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The Sustainable City Map for the Home Depot Foundation

Home Depot Sustainable City Map - thumbnail

Through a web search, Randal was contacted by Idea Engineering out in Santa Barbara, California about doing a map for their client, the Home Depot Foundation. Through email communication, a project scope, fee and timeline was established. The objective of the project was to create a generic city map that could be used on a [...]

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Atlanta Olympics Aerial Map for Kodak

Atlanta Olympics Aerial Map for Kodak by Randal Birkey-thumbnail

Kodak was a sponsor of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. They wanted to give visitors a handy map of places to visit in the Atlanta area. Randal created this forced aerial perspective map to highlight a number of sites and locations.

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Memphis Arts Council Map

Memphis Arts Council Map - by Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal Birkey was contracted by the Memphis Arts Council in the 1980’s to create a fun map for use in a promotional poster. The map was intended to highlight a number of locations in the city where arts related activities and events were being promoted. Randal worked from maps, drawings and aerial photo references of [...]

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Stipple Style Site Plan

Stipple Style Site Plan - © Randal Birkey - thumbnail

Randal did many illustrations using a “stipple” ink line style in the early 1980′s before the Macintosh computer came along and changed the way business and print communications were done… the so-called “desktop publishing” revolution. This is an example of a real estate development site plan done by hand in stipple style, primarily because the [...]

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Wacker Drive Streetscape

Wacker Drive Streetscape - © Randal Birkey

In the 1980′s Randal shared office space with an architectural and planning firm called Boyer, Hoppe & Associates. This firm had a client comprised of the major tenants along Wacker Drive, one of Chicago’s more famous business streets, as it follows the east and south side of the Chicago River. Along Wacker Drive are buildings [...]

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Wheaton College Campus Aerial View

Wheaton College Campus Aerial View - © Randal Birkey

Randal did his first map for Wheaton College through Rich Nickel Design in the early 1980′s. Also contributing to the project as a writer was Amy Wolgemuth. This original art was done by hand at 20 x 30 inches in size on hot press illustration board. The line art was done with very thin Rapidograph [...]

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Wheaton College Campus Map

Wheaton College Campus Map - © Randal Birkey

Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, has recruited Randal on several occasions to create or update various campus maps. This is an example of a mechanical or vector line art version created in Adobe Illustrator. This style of map is very easy to update and make changes to because of the vector nature of Postscript, the [...]

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