Northern Ireland Map drawing for Brussels Airlines

Northern Ireland Map

Northern Ireland Map drawing for Brussels Airlines Inflight Magazine. Ink Global create award-winning media and content for passengers at every stage of their journey. Ink currently produce over 25 magazines in eight languages for many of the world’s well-known airlines and travel companies including United, American Airlines, Iberia, Air Berlin, Norwegian, and Scoot. In addition, Ink sells digital media space for KLM, EasyJet, Aer Lingus, Cebu Pacific and many more.

I was commissioned to illustrate a map covering Northern Ireland which would be published for Brussels airline, inflight magazine. The illustrated map would show the sights and tourist interests such as Belfast the Titanic Centre, Bushmills Distillery, The Giant’s Causeway, Carrick a Rede rope bridge, Giant’s Causeway, Portrush, Portstewart, and Dunluce Castle.

The Northern Ireland map was an interesting map to work on for me. The illustrated map I have worked on in the past, I would draw the place on interest on to the map, this works well if there is space for the locations to work within the composition of the illustration. The design problem I encountered with the Northern Ireland map was with the difficulty of placing the locations with in the magazine dimensions. The solution to this problem was to crop the location drawings and place them within floating image shapes. This approach worked with the available space and composition with out compromising the map.