#map icon

Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) on 17th c. Dutch maps of Strait of Magellan:

1602 Olivier Van Noort (I think this is the earliest depiction of one on a map?)

Hunting Locale Icons for the Six Kings maps, ignore the Ruined City its not important and needs a redo. Some further information and explanations on some >>

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Icon inspiration and representations:

- Scarlet Swamp icon is made to pretty clearly show the namesake of the area, a red tree with green swamp water and cattails, red and green are a large part of the map, being contrasting colors.

- Boreal Abyss icon is inspired by the "Map of Hell" Painting by Sandro Botticelli. As the area is already a representation of the layers of hell, the icon should follow suit. Not all layers are represented, but they also dont fit so whatever.

- GoldThorn Ridge evidently puts both the ridge and the Goldthorn root front and center with more yellow tones to get across a more arid desert-esque area, which it is.

- Riptide Mangrove is based both on Polynesian iconography and the main gimmick of the area, where mangroves are so large they create riptides in-between their roots.

- Ruined City is more of a visualization of what I want out of the map, a ruined wartorn husk of what once a great expansive city, with a moody dull sky and semi contant bombardment of metors coming from an active volcano.

- Volcanic Gorge was an interesting challenge, it took some iteration, didn't know how to properly translate a Volcanic Canyon w/o it being just another Volcano, but with some input, I think its translated pretty well as a bleeding gash in the world, with a jungle thriving on top.

- The Twisting Woodland pretty much encapsulates the area, massive trees sheltering an ominous fog that engulfs everything within, making it a hazardous labyrinth where getting lost means certain death.

Hint: Gessner's illustration is based on this 1516 map icon, its earliest known European image. The caption reads: "An animal that looks like this is found here; it has a bag under its belly where it carries its offspring. One such animal was given to the King of Spain in Granada."

Another hint: This wildly inaccurate image was the result of Europeans attempting to illustrate a "new" animal based on second-hand reports of its appearance, which usually involved the "jigsaw animal" narrative. in this case, contemporary published accounts of the 1499-1500 voyage of Vicente Yáñez Pinzón (Spanish, c.1462-c.1514), during which the first known exploration of Brazil was made, described the first encounter with the animal like this: "Between these Trees he saw as strange a Monster, its foremost part resembling a Fox, the hinder a Monkey, the Feet were like a Mans, with Ears like an Owl; under whose Belly hung a great Bag, in which it carry'd the Young, which they drop not, nor forsake till they can feed themselves." [Translation from John Ogilby, America: Being the Latest, and Most Accurate Description of the New World (London, 1671), 59.]

Presenting, a pack of 16 globe icons. These line icons depict the world globe with latitudes and longitudes. Some icons show the globe with continents and some are an abstract depiction of our world’s globe. This pack can be employed in a wide range of design projects.

The download package contains the jpg, Ai and EPS files.