Graphic Design Portfolio
Class:
Meta-Systems, Spring 2025
Assignment:
Create a detailed illustrated and lettered map of a medium sized city of your choosing that you have not been to. Illustrated maps combine many core illustration skills: distillation and presentation of information, visual hierarchy, cultural reference, architectural reference, figurative reference, botanical reference, transportation reference, lettering, combined to create a system of visual hierarchy. Conduct research online on your city and include points of importance and interest on the map, including labels, where important.
Sketches
“Emma Crawford”
Illustrated City Map: Manitou Springs, CO
Manitou Springs, CO Overview
Historically a Gold Rush city, then after the Gold Rush it became a destination for healing and rejuvenation because of the mineral springs.
Hosts the Emma Crawford Coffin Race each October - commemorates when Emma Crawford’s coffin was unearthed by flooding on Red Mountain and came racing down the mountain and into town.
Numerous historical buildings in town.
Known for outdoor recreational areas nearby and the mineral springs throughout town.
Points of Interest
Arterials: Manitou Avenue, Rte 24, Ruxton Ave, Serpentine Drive
Surrounding Geography: Pikes Peak, Mt. Manitou, Red Mountain, Englemann Canyon, Founstain Creek, Ruxton Creek, Sutherland Creek
Parks: Schryver Park, Memorial Park, Mansions Park, Wheeler Town Clock, Soda Springs Park
Attractions: Garden of the Gods, Manitou Cliff Dwellings, Coffin Races, Cave of the Winds, Pike's Peak Railway, Rainbow Falls, Iron Springs Chateau Melodrama Dinner Theater, Manitou Springs Heritage Center, 8 Mineral Springs, Manitou Bathhouse (Spa), Manitou Incline, Miramont Castle Museum and The Queens Parlor Tea Room (Fire Department Museum), Crystal Valley Cemetery, Barker House, Briarhurst Manor, Cliff House at Pike's Peak, Manitou Springs Penny Arcade, Manitou Brewing Company
Garden of the Gods
7 Minute Spring
Stratton Spring
Cliff House
Cog Railway
