Color & size choices for this stylized Fayetteville map: Orange & Blue or Multi-Color with purple background, 11″ x 14″ or 16″ x 20″, other sizes or frames available upon request. These and all Sarah’s stylized maps can be found at www.etsy.com/shop/ArkansasMaps
Framing tip: The orange & blue map looks best in a black frame while the multi-color looks best in a white or natural wood frame.
About the Design: In creating ‘Fayetteville on a Grid with Two Parabolas’, I took the messy maze of Fayetteville’s main roads and highways and snapped them to a grid. The curved paths of the city’s two most important east-west corridors are highlighted by contouring them to opposite facing parabolas. Interstate 49 also strays from the grid by zigzagging north to south. Colorful geometric shapes fill the negative space, resulting in a vibrant, simplified flow of paths throughout the city. It’s an illustration of how the streets of my hometown appear in my mind when I’m deciding how to get from here to there!
Maker
Sarah Bunton
City
West Fork
Website
http://www.etsy.com/shop/ArkansasMaps
Bio
Sarah’s interest in city maps stems from her experiences while teaching World Languages, traveling, and working abroad. City maps were an essential part of her life. What began in early 2020 as a “pandemic project” of creating a stylized map of her hometown Fayetteville has resulted in several artistic maps of Fayetteville and 4 other cities in Arkansas so far. She enjoys the research and tours required for each Arkansas city map project and sees no end in sight for her new artistic endeavor.
“In creating a map, I take the city’s complex maze of streets, parks, venues, and bike trails and snap their names to a grid. I then fill the negative spaces with colorful geometric shapes. The result is a vibrant, simplified flow of paths around the city. The purpose of this and all of my stylized maps is to orient those new to the city, encourage the use of cycling and pedestrian paths, and to further a sense of community identity among residents. It’s an illustration of how the streets of my hometown appear in my mind when I’m deciding how to get from here to there.”
In addition to stylized maps, she enjoys making pottery at the Community Creative Center in Fayetteville. Sarah lives in West Fork, Arkansas.