The Projection Collection By Daniel Huffman
A final print run for the popular map-themed trading cards
Let’s use our imagination to draw a Venn diagram real quick.
Picture a sheet of paper. Draw a big circle on the left-hand side of the page for all the map nerds out there. Another circle, drawn on the right-hand side of the page, is for all the trading card nerds. Now with your mind’s eye, move those two circles closer to each other without touching each other … closer, closer, closer … OK now stop!
Your two circles should be near each other, but not overlapping. Because that is what one might expect, right? Surely there is no subset of human beings that are both map nerds and trading card nerds. Right?!?
Wrong! Overlap those circles, y’all.
The Projection Collection, a set of map-themed trading cards, is back for a second, and final, print run. From cartographer Daniel Huffman:
I wasn't sure if this project would make it, because I thought perhaps the market was mostly saturated from the first print run. I knew there were still a few people who wanted cards, but it was hard to tell how many. How many people can there be, after all, who want this sort of weird nerdy thing? I'm glad to see that there are a lot of you out there still!
The collection is a set of trading cards based on common (and uncommon!) map projections. Think baseball cards, but its maps instead of shortstops and pitchers. There are 77 unique cards in the deck designed by 65 different cartographers. There were about 15,000 cards printed during the first print run in 2022.
With this year’s gift-giving season approaching, The Projection Collection makes for a perfect gift for the cartophiles in your life. Which includes you more than likely, since you are still reading this, so treat yourself to a pack or two too.
Read more about The Projection Collection on Huffman’s website and back the Kickstarter project here.