Tag: Buckminster Fuller

1943 – Dymaxion Map & Folding Globe

“Also know as the “Dymaxion Map,” the Fuller Projection Map is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents. It was developed by R. Buckminster Fuller. All flat world map representations of the spherical globe contain some amount of distortion either in shape, area, distance or direction […]

Added by: Alex Hughes. Category: Physical model  Tags: Cartographic, Globe, Dymaxion, Buckminster Fuller