Martin Vargic is a Slovak artist and author, best known for his book "Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps", and "Map of the Internet".
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 was first featured in media on 30 January 2014, after a design and technology blog
Gizmodo
''Gizmodo'' () is a design, technology, science, and science fiction website. It was originally launched as part of the Gawker Media network run by Nick Denton. ''Gizmodo'' also includes the sub-blogs ''io9'' and ''Earther'', which focus on pop ...
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
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...
,
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, notably "The World - Climate Change", depicting the world after 260-ft
sea level rise
The sea level has been rising from the end of the last ice age, which was around 20,000 years ago. Between 1901 and 2018, the average sea level rose by , with an increase of per year since the 1970s. This was faster than the sea level had e ...
, the "Map of Stereotypes"
and a number of other maps and charts.
In September 2015, Vargic published his first book, ''Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps''.
References
External links
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Living people
21st-century Slovak illustrators
1998 births