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Maps & Cartography

The News Building Map – New York

The News Building, New York - Isometric location map

OBJECTIVE
A design firm required a visually interesting area map to use in a print piece highlighting the amenities and features of The News Building, located in New York City, for a real estate client.
SOLUTION
Randal Birkey produced an isometric base map of the streets surrounding the building location. The featured building and another one nearby were [...]

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Chicago Magazine – Chicago Visitor Map

Chicago Visitors Map

OBJECTIVE
Chicago Magazine (Chicago, Illinois), the premiere local magazine for the Chicago area, required 2 street maps in which to locate a number of points of interest and amenities targeted at visitors to the City of Chicago.
SOLUTION
Randal Birkey of BIRKEY.COM created a detailed street map from Lake Michigan to Damen Ave. and from Diversey Street [...]

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Base Maps

Location Maps

OBJECTIVE
To create a number of Chicago area base maps in Adobe Illustrator (Postscript – vector) format, to enable a wide range of customization and personalization by RANDAL BIRKEY.COM clients.
SOLUTION
Randal Birkey has created a number of such base maps that can be customized in the following ways:

Cropped to various boundaries and sizes
Custom color palettes to fit [...]

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American Invsco – Delaware Place – Chicago, Illinois

Delaware Place Chicago

OBJECTIVE
A leading US condominium developer, American Invsco, required a marketing map and new condo building illustration of a new development in Chicago called Delaware Place.
SOLUTION
Randal Birkey created a street level detail map of the neighborhood around the development, highlighting amenities and proximity to  shopping, recreation and transportation.
Randal also created a street level view perspective of [...]

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Corporate Site Plan Illustration

Corporate Site Plan

Randal Birkey created this site plan of what eventually became an insurance office campus in the northern suburbs of Chicago in the 1980’s. The developer was Homart, and the project called Riverwoods. The original art was done with pen and ink line work, and color pencil and watercolor washes on illustration board. The illustration was [...]

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