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January 10, 2025

For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations… by

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For Decades, Cartographers Have Been Hiding Covert Illustrations Inside of Switzerland’s Official Maps.

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Story here:

https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/for-decades-cartographers-have-been-hiding-covert-illustrations-inside-of-switzerlands-official-maps/

’… on certain maps, in Switzerland’s more remote regions, there is also, curiously, a spider, a man’s face, a naked woman, a hiker, a fish, and a marmot. These barely-perceptible apparitions aren’t mistakes, but rather illustrations hidden by the official cartographers at Swisstopo in defiance of their mandate “to reconstitute reality.” ’


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