A Map of The Advertising World

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By Scamp creative director Simon Veksner

Have you ever seen one of those altered maps known as a ‘cartogram’?

Here’s one: Map of the world with each country sized according to its GDP, rather than actual land area.

Screen shot 2012-10-29 at 8.37.44 AM.jpgLong-time readers of this blog will know that I have a fondness for maps, charts, and statistics. If that makes me a geek, well… um… it’s cool to be a geek nowadays, no?

Anyway, I was mucking about with a freeware image editing program called Gimp last night, and decided to use it to create an advertising cartogram.