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Other Annual Reports

January 14th, 2008 by Dan Meyer

Kevin Hodgson showed up a few hours late to the party, but posted his anyway. ¶ Inspiration for / judge of this event, Nicholas Felton, posted his own last night and proves himself well worth the fuss. [via everyone]

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  1. on 14 Jan 2008 at 10:12 am1 Tom

    Felton’s stuff is just sick. I’m quite literally embarrassed looking at the newest report. I was impressed before but after attempting to do something even remotely similar I’m amazed.

  2. on 14 Jan 2008 at 11:40 am2 Jason Dyer

    I love the flowchart. And the Yak Milk Tea.

    Also, I am curious where the New York map came from. I’m not sure where to find an existing road map with that perspective, nor how to modify a normal one to look like that.

  3. on 14 Jan 2008 at 12:46 pm3 dan

    I’d bet a steak dinner those maps are homebrewed.

    Guessing: he grabs a GoogleMap of Manhattan (same with the maps of the world), vector traces it in Adobe Illustrator, which renders all the street lines a) infinitely scalable and b) infinitely distortable.

    Then in Photoshop he uses the Distort tool.

    Just guessing.

  4. on 14 Jan 2008 at 3:15 pm4 jose

    Even so, the man’s a beast.

  5. on 14 Jan 2008 at 3:58 pm5 dan

    No doubt. Just because I can explain how it might’ve happened, doesn’t mean I could come within a stone’s throw of reproducing it.

  6. on 15 Jan 2008 at 10:03 am6 H.

    OK, I’ll be that kid that slides the assignment in under the door after hours without asking first :) Posted my attempt late Saturday night, or rather early Sunday morning, and noticed only Monday that there was a big technical mistake in it. So I’ve reposted it for the fun and the participation points and the good company.