The Places We Didn't Go in 2020
TLDR
This map is a comprehensive visualization of the places that 16 brave explorers failed to visit in 2020 on account of that damn pandemic.
Juicy details
Participants in this Bean Brew experience were asked to list three places they didn't travel in 2020. Answers ranged from quite sad (family members in distant places) to totally ridiculous (random locations in the middle of the vast South Pacific). I took these results, invented a fake around the world balloon race, and then had to figure out a way to visualize a truly global map with just enough detail to fit on a reasonably sized silk screen.
This map is the 11th in the Bean Brew mapping experience.
Format
- Format
- Silk Screen
- Size
- 24" by 18"
Prints available
Silk Screen · 24" by 18"
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The Bean Brew story
Bean Brew came about as a home brewing project transformed into a mapping project. It worked like this:
- I would brew a batch of beer (generally a Saison) into about 16 large format bottles.
- Every batch had a theme, which was almost always ridiculous, but just plausible enough to maybe be true? Accompanying this theme was a survey, which at first actually asked people about their Bean Brew beer drinking experience. However, these questions quickly went rogue.
- The 16 bottles of beer were given away at first. In later years they were actually sold in highly exclusive batches. The beer was drunk. Usually without too much hounding, every person who obtained a bottle returned their survey results to Bean Brew HQ.
- I analyzed these results with the help of my slide rule, then designed a map visualizing the Bean Brew experience.
- The Bean Brew designs were then dispatched to Texas, where my friend Rand used his mad crazy printmaking skills to transform them into four-color silkscreens. Rand was always very busy (or falling off of ladders) and the silkscreening process generally took many months to complete.
- On a happy day many months after the original beers were consumed, every person who participated in the experience received a beautiful map.