Los Angeles City Map Poster

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Los Angeles map poster

Los Angeles has never been a city that fits neatly into one picture. It spreads from the Pacific shoreline inland across a wide basin, folds around the Santa Monica Mountains, and is stitched together by freeways that locals discuss the way other people discuss the weather. Downtown, Hollywood, the beach towns and the San Fernando Valley each feel like their own place, yet they belong to one long, sunlit sprawl. A street map is one of the few ways to take in all of that at once.

This print presents Los Angeles in the Overprint edition, one of the RadMaps design styles. It treats the city's street pattern as something worth looking at for its own sake, a piece that reads as art from across a room and still rewards a closer look. The density of a place this size gives the design plenty to work with, and the result feels distinctly like LA rather than any generic city.

For someone who grew up there, moved away, or just signed a lease, it is a quiet way to keep the city close. It suits a living room, a studio or an office wall, and makes a thoughtful gift for anyone with a Los Angeles story of their own, whether that story involves a first apartment, a favorite taco stand or years spent learning which surface streets beat the freeway. It is made as decorative art, not as a guide for getting around.

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Location

California, United States

Collection

Cityscapes