David Ramos

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Designer, design educator. Making maps/systems to help us imagine landscapes past + future. Lost streams, 🚲🛶🌊.
WhereWashington, D.C.
Webhttp://imaginaryterrain.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/imagineterrain
WatershedsRock Creek âž” Potomac âž” Chesapeake
Artichoke in the garden at Riversdale House, Riverdale Park, Md.
Rendering tide data in watercolor using the pen plotter at AU's Design and Build Lab,
Washington, D.C., it's the greatest place to be /
It's not the pawpaws everywhere in bloom
Some 21 years lighter, I’m using the Color-aid paper for something else, a color demo in the data vis class.
Time for a demo in the visualization/information design class. Guess what kind of data we’re working with?
This set of drawings of pillows, by Albrecht Dürer, has a distinctly topographic quality. https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/durer-pillow-studies
Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

Completed in his early twenties, Dürer's pillow studies seem to slip between the waking world and the stuff of dreams.

The Public Domain Review
Rendering tide table data in watercolor, using a pen plotter.
Oh hey, it's an airplane.
Guinness Open Gate, Halethorpe, Md.
Harvard Hall apartments under renovation. With simplified windows and even illumination (and likely, interior walls gone), the building feels more like a textile mill. Need to return w better camera and tripod.