Nationality Slovak | Name Martin Vargic | |
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Area(s) Cartography
Digital art Notable works Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps, Map of the Internet, Map of Stereotypes, The World - Climate Change | ||
Martin Vargic is a Slovak artist, writer and entrepreneur, best known for his book "Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps", and his maps notably "Map of the Internet", that went viral in late January 2014.
Maps
Vargic publishes all of his works (chiefly maps and charts) on his website, halcyonmaps.com.
On 15 January 2014, Vargic published the "Map of the Internet" on Deviantart. It is a conceptual artwork that depicts the largest websites and software companies as sovereign nations on a stylized political map of the world, scaled according to their traffic and Alexa ratings. It became an international media hit on 30 January 2014, after a design and technology blog Gizmodo wrote an article on the subject.
Following week, the map was featured on a wide variety of news sites and blogs in over 20 countries, most notably on The Independent, Fox News, The Huffington Post and Business Insider.
In addition to the "Map of the Internet", Vargic has recently published a wide variety of other maps, most notable being "The World - Climate Change", depicting the world after 260-ft sea level rise, an attempt to increase awareness over the issue of Global Warming. He also created a "Map of Stereotypes" and a number of other maps and charts.
In September 2014, Vargic published his first book, named Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps.