Patrick James 
Axis Maps' new Typographic Maps are sheer cartographic beauty. The streets, cities, bodies of water, neighborhoods, and highways on each map are depicted entirely with words, and each map took hundreds of hours to complete.
You can purchase poster-sized prints for $30 each.
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Online Agency Brands Social Enterprises on a Startup's Budget
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Hustlin': How I Became My Own Mentor in a Freelance Economy
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What Do You Love: The Tsetse Fly Scientist
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GOOD Citizenship Task 19: Use the Freedom of Information Act #30DaysofGOOD
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A City Education: Why Adults Must Model Racial Unity for Students
Use the new website Street Art View to check out graffiti from around the world or just down your block.
John Wesley Powell thought our western borders should be shaped by watersheds. A 130-year-old map shows how the West would have looked.
Calling all cartographers! Using the USDA's data, you can map the connection between farmers' markets and food deserts in your neighborhood.
Months before she was shot by a crazed gunman, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords warned of the dangers of Sarah Palin's rhetoric.
Lisa Rienermann's Type the Sky project uses the spaces between buildings to form the letters of the alphabet, from A to Z.
The 420,000 black spheres of the "Geometric Death Frequency-141" sculpture were organized and assembled by robots, with no human intervention.
In honor of the plethora of religious holidays coming up in the next few days: a series of maps showing the prevalence of religious affiliations...
We love maps. Maps, maps, maps. Down in our belly. These new maps from the MLA use census data to tell you what languages are being spoken across...
As gas prices continue to rise, it starts to become a better and better idea to find the cheapest gas stations. This map lists average gas...
The estate tax is one seriously hard nut to crack. On one hand, if people make money, or own property, they should be allowed to pass it on to...
If you, somehow, have gotten really far ahead of the curve and are already driving a biodiesel car, you probably don't have the easiest time...
Wal-Mart has almost taken over the eastern part of the United States. Every dot represents a Wal-Mart. There must be places where Wal-Marts are...
You know how in some parts of the country they use "Coke" as one might use "Kleenex" or "Xerox?" Coke merely implies any sort of sweetened and...
Popular Science, in their popular scientist way, makes a great map of the world's alternative energy. Apparently, every single person in the city...
If you've ever been curious about which countries on earth have the happiest inhabitants, look no further: A map of happy people, if happiness is...
It's hot out there. Really, really hot. Maybe you've noticed. And look at all this drought. Yikes!
Want to know where you'll be able buy waterfront property in the next decade or so? Check out these flood maps.Via Future Feeder
Sites which give you music recommendations based on your musical tastes are always fun and helpful. This one, MusicMap, maps it out in a handy...
Springfield, in map form. A great way to catch up on all the puns you may have missed.More from GOOD: Springfield, Here We Come.
What would the Middle East look like with borders based on traditional ethnic divisions? a whole lot different..
