is a blog about design, technology and culture written by Khoi Vinh, and has been more or less continuously published since December 2000 in New York City. Khoi is currently Principal Designer at Adobe. Previously, Khoi was co-founder and CEO of Mixel (acquired in 2013), Design Director of The New York Times Online, and co-founder of the design studio Behavior, LLC. He is the author of “How They Got There: Interviews with Digital Designers About Their Careers”and “Ordering Disorder: Grid Principles for Web Design,” and was named one of Fast Company’s “fifty most influential designers in America.” Khoi lives in Crown Heights, Brooklyn with his wife and three children.
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Love these. I’ve used the old Kansas City Sanborn maps online for researching my wife and I’s old house:
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The Missouri Valley Special Collections has 19 bound volumes of Kansas City Sanborn maps, which have been digitized, and some Kansas City volumes and selected Missouri cities on microfilm.
They’re gorgeous! I love how they look 3D as well. And even though they’re old school, they’d work well today. Thanks Khoi! You always share some awesome stuff!
Typical Victorian stuff, nice if you like that kind of thing.
The insurance maps themselves are fantastic resources for urban history, often available from city archives.
These are killer! Golden Black has a great vector set inspired by these Sanborn Map designs!
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