axismaps has created these awesome and beautiful, awesomely beautiful maps using typography rather than lines to denote streets. The width of the text would be the same line width as the street, and as you can see the maps not only make sense, they have a great element of design to them. Typography can be used in a very contrived way to create textures, but using typography in street maps is actually brilliant. This simplifies maps to an even greater extent, due to the fact that you no longer need separate spaces for the line and the text, you can just combine them into one!
Here at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture Fun, they’ve been telling us to put more and more information onto one space, and to layer diagrams and drawings until they are hardly legible. This seems to be an elegant solution as to how we can fit two types of information onto one space. As you can see in the color map below, color is used to denote yet another type of information, making the layering yet more complex while increasing the legibility of the map. Quite awesome.
Thanks to Kaitie for the link 
