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Vintage postcard: the Elephant Gate to the Berlin Zoo, 1900

My favorite aspect of this map is its representation of the Russian population that stretches into Siberia and the far east along rivers, depicting Russian colonization. It also reveals various features that were excluded from the map but revealed…

Using the software Screenflow, I was able to track the real time approach to document my workflow. It is in these digital dérives I collapse and combine the internet with the physical, questioning its daily function and usage as a 'thing' we inhabit.…

This map is part of a larger project by Bulgarian designer Yanko Tsvetkov to map (and thereby expose) cultural prejudices around the world. For more information, see his website at http://alphadesigner.com.

An illustration of the Europe-Asia border marker in the Ural Mountains, from Thomas Knox's 1871 book, Overland through Asia.