BioGeo Editions
Land, water, life.
Beautiful, exacting maps of the natural world. Each takes one subject, physical or environmental, and sets it over a contrasting landscape.
Five per cent of every sale funds wildlife conservation.
5%
Of every sale, to wildlife conservation
The prints pay for the country they show
BioGeo is a profit for purpose business. Five per cent of the sale price of every print goes to wildlife conservation, alongside the $5 from every billable consulting hour and every app subscription that already funds it.
It is not a rounding up at the checkout and it is not added to your price. It comes out of the sale, whatever the sale is, and it is the same five per cent on a $79 sheet as on a $189 one.
The catalogue
Also in preparation
Living Systems has three sheets in it. These two would make five, from the same public data and on the same paper. Neither is finished, so neither is shown: a placeholder image would be a promise the catalogue cannot keep.
The vegetation mosaic
Australia's major vegetation groups laid over modern relief. The same drape as the 1952 geology sheets, with a living subject instead of a geological one.
The bioregions
The eighty nine bioregions of Australia as a single coloured plate. The ecological counterpart to the national parks sheet, and a map that almost nobody prints.
If one of these is the sheet you want on a wall, say so and it moves up the list. Tell us which.
Drawn from the survey, not from a picture
Every sheet is rendered from elevation data by a pipeline written for the purpose. Nothing is traced, nothing is painted in, and nothing is stretched to fit the paper. Change the data and the sheet changes with it.
Five metre LiDAR, bare earth
The South East Queensland sheets are drawn from the Queensland 5 m LiDAR terrain model: a laser survey of the ground under the canopy. Global satellite models measure the treetops, which is why rainforest ranges come out as green mush. Here the gorges under Lamington are actually visible.
One cell, one pixel
Each sheet renders at exactly one elevation cell per printed pixel, about ten metres of ground per pixel at 300 DPI. Nothing is upsampled and nothing is invented, so what you see at arm's length holds up with your nose against the glass.
Places, properly
The large print sellers cover a whole country with a handful of continent maps from coarse global data. Individual places, drawn at survey quality as a consistent series, is the gap this catalogue is for.
Paper, ink and frame
- Sizes
- Most sheets are 3:4 and come at 12 x 16 in and 18 x 24 in, which are also 30 x 40 cm and 45 x 60 cm to within a millimetre. The hydrological sheet is 4:5, at 16 x 20 in and 24 x 30 in. All are standard off the shelf frame sizes.
- Printing
- Giclee pigment ink on heavyweight matt cotton rag, printed in Australia and posted flat or rolled depending on size. Printed edge to edge: each sheet carries its own margin, so it needs no mount.
- Colour
- The paper ground is a warm off white and the darkest ink is a warm near black rather than a flat process black, which is what keeps the sheets from going cold under glass.
- Attribution
- The credit line along the foot of every sheet names the survey the terrain came from. It is there because the data is public and openly licensed, and saying so is part of the job.
A place that is not in the catalogue
The pipeline takes a bounding box, so any place with a public elevation survey can be drawn: a property, a catchment, a range you walk. Commissions are quoted individually and the same five per cent applies.
Ask about a commissionTrade, gallery and bulk
For volume orders, gallery stock, or a set framed as a series for an office or a visitor centre, get in touch and we will work out the run.
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