Louisville City Map Poster

About this print

Louisville map poster

Louisville sits on a bend of the Ohio River, across the water from Indiana, and its street grid carries the marks of a river city that grew up around trade and travel. This poster renders Louisville in the Overprint style, a bold, graphic look that turns the city's layout into something that reads as much like a design object as a map. It suits a wall where a print should hold its own from across the room.

The city has plenty that people carry with them after they leave. Churchill Downs and the first Saturday in May, the Louisville Slugger bats, bourbon culture that runs deep through Kentucky, and the long riverfront where the Big Four Bridge crosses to Jeffersonville. Old Louisville's Victorian houses, the shotgun homes in the Highlands and Germantown, and the parks laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted give the place a texture that feels different neighborhood to neighborhood. For anyone who grew up here, went to school here, or spent a few good years in the city, a street map can stand in for all of it at once.

As a gift, it works for someone moving away from Louisville or someone who just arrived and wants to mark the start. It also fits a home office, an entryway, or a living room where the rest of the decor leans modern. The Overprint edition keeps things graphic rather than literal, so the print feels at home with other art instead of looking like a reference document. It is meant to be decorative, a way of keeping a place in view, not a guide for finding your way around the city.

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Location

Kentucky, United States

Collection

Cityscapes