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Des Moines city map poster for Iowa

Shown at 16×24" · Archival Matte 250 gsm

Iowa

Des Moines City Map Poster

Brutalist

Picture it at home

From living room to modern office

The same Des Moines artwork, shown in a 24×36 natural wood frame. Room scenes are for scale and styling; choose your exact size and material at checkout.

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Warm living room24×36 natural frame
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Modern office24×36 natural frame

About this print

Des Moines map poster

Des Moines grew up where the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers meet, and that meeting point still shapes how the city feels. Iowa's capital and largest city has a compact downtown with an enclosed skywalk system that keeps people moving through cold winters, and the gold-domed State Capitol watches over it from the east side of the river. Beyond the core, the streets fan out into older neighborhoods, the Drake University area, riverside trails and parks, and the fairgrounds that fill up every summer for the Iowa State Fair. It is a city people tend to describe in terms of familiar routines: a walk along the river, a Saturday farmers market downtown, a favorite corner diner, a drive home on a route that never needs a map.

The Brutalist edition is a visual style built on weight and contrast. Bold forms, heavy blocks and a stripped-back graphic attitude give the city's layout a strong, architectural presence, closer to modern design than to a traditional road map. It suits rooms with clean lines, concrete or industrial touches, or anyone who likes art with some backbone.

This print makes sense for people who live in Des Moines and want their city on the wall, for those who grew up there and moved away, or for anyone with a soft spot for Iowa's capital after a stint at school or work. It also works as a housewarming or graduation gift for someone starting out in the city. The poster is decorative art, meant to be looked at and remembered by, not used for finding the way.

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Map details

Location
Iowa, United States
Collection
Cityscapes

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RadMaps city map posters turn a place you know by heart into wall art: its streets, parks, rivers and shoreline, drawn from real map data and composed to read from across the room rather than to navigate by. The collection covers big cities and small ones, from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and London to Nashville, Seattle, Austin, Indianapolis, Siesta Key and Danville, Illinois. Each city is designed as its own print, with type and color chosen to suit that place, and Philadelphia comes in three editions: risograph, brutalist and classic. City posters make thoughtful housewarming gifts, a way to remember where you met or where you grew up, and a wall piece for anyone who has moved away from somewhere they love. Every design is printed and shipped within the United States in a range of sizes and finishes, from archival matte posters to framed prints, wall hangings, aluminum and acrylic. Don't see your city? Start a custom map from any place and style it yourself in the RadMaps editor.

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