The Dymaxion map, invented by systems theorist and designer Buckminster Fuller in 1943, is one such attempt to display the Earth while preserving its dimensions.

It's significantly more accurate than traditional 2-D maps, however, thanks to a process that begins with an actual globe. Drawing inspiration from Buckminster Fuller's 1954 Dymaxion map, Narukawa ...

The Dymaxion World map, which unfolds the earth into a long string of shapes, like a carefully peeled orange. 2013 marks the map’s 70th birthday, and to celebrate, ...

First presented in 1943, Fuller's Dymaxion Map projects the world map onto the surface of a three-dimensional icosahedron that can be unfolded and flattened to two dimensions. It is said to be the ...

Brendan Ravenhill reimagines the Dymaxion Map as a magnetic globe.Like Fuller’s original map, Ravenhill’s globe can exist in two or three dimensions. Laid flat, it’s a series of 20 triangles ...

He also dabbled in automobile design, drawing up plans for the teardrop-shaped Dymaxion car. First built as a prototype in 1933, the Dymaxion car achieved a reported 30 mpg and had seating for 11.

Within weeks, the New York Times published a measured, indirect, and mostly ignored rebuttal, featuring Bernard J.S. Cahill's Butterfly map. Fuller's followers carried the Dymaxion torch blindly ...

The Dymaxion map sprang from the mind of architect/inventor/futurist Buckminster Fuller. Writer Alvin Toffler once called Fuller “one of the most-powerful myth-makers and myth-exposers of our ...

People have been drawing maps for thousands of years. ... Dymaxion Airocean World, 1954, R. Buckminster Fuller. Printed paper, 24 x 39 cm / 9 1/2 x 15 1⁄3 in., ...

A map that illustrates global forest densities using wood textures wins a competition to reinvent the tessellated Dymaxion world map by Buckminster Fuller.