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I’m a graphic artist living in Aarhus, Denmark and I work under the name DAU-DAW. I grew up in the countryside where I developed a great love for both nature and animals – all of which are reflected in my work below. I spend between a few days and several weeks creating each of these little worlds.
The “maps” are all divided into different countries and every mountain, every lake, every city and every ocean in these pieces are named after everything relevant to the title of each piece. Take for example Felidae – Land of the Lion. Everything in this “map” is named after both fictional and actual lion species that are either extinct or still around today.
No actual geographical locations are presented in any of these pieces. Everything has been drawn from scratch by me using mostly Illustrator. I hope you like it!
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#1
Ursidae - Land Of The Panda
Final score:
63points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
Obviously the capital city in 'Land of the Panda' is named after the big, fluffy and bamboo eating Giant Panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) we all know and love 🐼🐼🐼 And if you look closely you can see tiny crosses in front of some of the names in the close-up picture to the right. Those crosses mean that the spieces they are infront of have gone extinct (don't worry - in most cases it happened a looong time ago!).
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#2
Felidae - Land Of The Lion
Final score:
54points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
This map is made in the image of the Lion. Mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. are all named after spieces belonging to the family of Felidae. The Felidae comprises two subfamilies, the Pantherinae and the Felinae. The former includes the Panthera species: lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard, clouded leopard and the sunda clouded leopard. All the non-pantherine cats are part of the Felinae, which includes several genera and the majority of cat species - aswell as the domestic cat.
#3
Strigiformes - Land Of The Owl
Final score:
46points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
Strigiformes (owls) consists of six families, where two of them (Strigidae and Tytonidae) includes all extant owl spieces - Some 220 to 225 in total. Fitting 220+ owl names into one map was quite a challenge!
#4
Land Of Monstera
Final score:
45points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
For those who havn't noticed, this map was made in the image of a plant (monstera) and not an animal :) Monstera is a genus of about 50 species of flowering plants.
#5
Ailuridae - Land Of The Red Panda
Final score:
45points
#6
Giraffoidea - Land Of The Giraffe
Final score:
44points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
Giraffoidea is a superfamily that includes many spieces where most have been extinct for a very long time. The only extant members in this superfamily are the pronghorn, okapi, and ofcourse the giraffe.
#7
Mustelidae - Land Of The Otter
Final score:
42points
#8
Canis - Land Of The Wolf
Final score:
41points
#9
Accipitridae - Land Of The Eagle
Final score:
38points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
Land of the Eagle is made in the image of the bald eagle and mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. are all named after bird spieces belonging to the family of Accipitridae (hawks, true eagles, seaeagles and snake-eagles) approx. 60 in total :)
#10
Anatidae - Land Of The Swan
Final score:
38points
#12
Leporidae - Land Of The Rabbit
Final score:
35points
DAU-DAW (Submission author) 6 years ago
Leporidae is the family of rabbits and hares, containing over 60 species of extant mammals in all. This map was made in the image of the rabbit - but i will do the hare aswell at some point :)
#14
E. F. Caballus - Land Of The Horse
Final score:
33points
#17
Spheniscidae - Land Of The Penguin
Final score:
31points
#18
Pantherinae - Land Of Big Cats
Final score:
30points
#19
Trochilidae - Land Of The Hummingbird
Final score:
29points
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
Imagine it full of beautiful flowers and lots of jeweled birds flitting around.
#20
Panthera - Land Of The Jaguar
Final score:
28points
#21
Macaca - Land Of The Macaque
Final score:
28points
#22
Ursidae - Land Of The Bear
Final score:
28points
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
A cold wooded place with lots of berries, salmon and honey. Up north there are polar bears.
#23
Vombatiformes - Land Of The Koala
Final score:
26points
Unstable_Artist 3 years ago
Why is the koala separate from the bear? I mean, it has all of the koalafications
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Tor Rolf Strøm 6 years ago
These are f*****g fantastic, if I may be so blunt. The shapes, the style, the details. Magnificent! Fortsett det gode arbeidet, hilsen Norge! :D
Val/Malibu/Dante/Bob 6 years ago
Do you take recommendations? If so, can you make a tiny tiny island for quokkas aka the most adorable and happiest animals on earth? Thank you if you can’t and don’t worry if not. :)
Jeeya Kaur 6 years ago
I like how the jaguar one was mostly water, so u can differentiate from the big cats
IvetaT 6 years ago
all you need to do now is to frame it and put in on the wall.. amazing artwork
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
Now you just need someone to write the fantasy novel that involves all of these lands!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
Nice idea and great realization of it. I like the way you have put a lot of care into place names. Could this be used to make portraits of people too?
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
I just love how creative and talented this artist is. These are lands I want to live in!
The True Red Panda 6 years ago
You should make a narwhal one! Or a sloth! But any animal is cool! They are all so amazing!!!!!
Nesian_Nefertiti 6 years ago (edited)
I expected it to be a map of animal habitats...I am kinda disappointed but also very much in awe.
Tor Rolf Strøm 6 years ago
These are f*****g fantastic, if I may be so blunt. The shapes, the style, the details. Magnificent! Fortsett det gode arbeidet, hilsen Norge! :D
Val/Malibu/Dante/Bob 6 years ago
Do you take recommendations? If so, can you make a tiny tiny island for quokkas aka the most adorable and happiest animals on earth? Thank you if you can’t and don’t worry if not. :)
Jeeya Kaur 6 years ago
I like how the jaguar one was mostly water, so u can differentiate from the big cats
IvetaT 6 years ago
all you need to do now is to frame it and put in on the wall.. amazing artwork
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
Now you just need someone to write the fantasy novel that involves all of these lands!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
Nice idea and great realization of it. I like the way you have put a lot of care into place names. Could this be used to make portraits of people too?
ispeak catanese 3 years ago
I just love how creative and talented this artist is. These are lands I want to live in!
The True Red Panda 6 years ago
You should make a narwhal one! Or a sloth! But any animal is cool! They are all so amazing!!!!!
Nesian_Nefertiti 6 years ago (edited)
I expected it to be a map of animal habitats...I am kinda disappointed but also very much in awe.
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