Japan's Prestigious Good Design Award Goes To . . . A World Map?

Sarah Benton Feitlinger
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:52:20 -0800

The decision to bestow the 2016 Good Design Award, Japan’s most prestigious design honor, upon the AuthaGraph World Map came as a surprise to many. Given that previous winners have been innovations like personal mobility chairs and robotic arms, people wondered what had impressed the judges about the design of a map. It turns out that this strange-looking map is the most proportionate depiction of our planet.