Seeing the World in Words!

posted by Anna Fleet on November 10th, 2010

I’m a writer so, understandably, I think about words a whole lot. Words get me excited, they’re touching, and if you use the right word, at just the right time, you can memorialize a moment for forever. I know, I’m a bit of a word dork. You should see me get into a game of Scrabble.

So you can imagine my excitement when my colleague James showed me this artistic rendition from Dirk Schächter, entitled The World in Words. Now that’s what I’m talking about!

The World in Words (check it out above) is a stunning, colorful typographic map, created using Helvetica Neue font. Schächter carefully positioned each letter to achieve an authentic likeness of a conventional world map—only using words!

Check out more pictures and read the full story on The World in Words. And thanks to artist Dirk Schächter—you made my day!

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