ENVIRONMENTAL VISUAL COMMUNICATION | ILLUSTRATED MAPS
San Solomon Springs Illustrated Maps
Client: Environmental Defense Fund & Water PR
LVB was excited to play a creative role in the Environmental Defense Fund’s (EDF) Storymap: Water in the Texas Desert: The Story of San Solomon Springs. It’s a story of the vast groundwater complex that supports a vibrant spring system near the Davis Mountains in West Texas.
The project was a creative collaboration with EDF, Water PR, Kevin Greenblat, and LVBrown Studio to compose a multi-media online publication into an ESRI StoryMap.
LVB’s role was to interpret the spring’s regional flow path and local geography into illustrated maps and sketches.
LVB drew from the creative team’s interviews with groundwater scientists, historical maps, aerial photography, and geospatial layers to extract salient storytelling information such as groundwater aquifers, fault lines, surface water, and land use patterns.
In addition to the illustrated map, hand-drawn sketches serve as landmarks or visual touchstones and chapter dividers to highlight the story’s many themes.
West Texas desert mountain landscape. View from above Fort Davis.
San Solomon Springs. Largest spring-fed swimming pool in the world! Balmorhea State Park.
Historic Calera Chapel
SAN SOLOMON Springs Recharge Zone
Use the slider bar to see how LVB extracts critical information from basemap layers, such as roadways, landforms, flow paths, land use textures and points of interest to interpret the story into a map illustration.
Six Springs Area – Local Map
Use the slider bar to see how LVB extracts critical information from basemap layers, such as roadways, landforms, flow paths, land use textures and points of interest to interpret the story into a map illustration.