Time Lapse Video: the Creation of a Transit Map

As promised, here’s the time lapse video I made while creating my International E-Road Network diagram (E-Roads are the rough European equivalent to America’s Interstate highways, although not all European countries signpost them, or even acknowledge their existence. It’s complicated!).

Each frame of this video is a screenshot from Adobe Illustrator at the same zoom setting, taken roughly 30 minutes of working time apart. For me, the interesting thing is how organic the process looks when viewed like this… I’d get stuck on one part, so I’d move from one country to another for a while. My brain would subconsciously process the problems I’d been having, and I’d always find that previous section easier to work on when I returned to it.

Enjoy!