The details

A poster issix layerson one sheet of paper.

Every poster is built from the same six layers. Here is one taken apart. Further down, the layout, the typeface, the size and the frame are shown one at a time, with everything else kept the same.

The sheetThe sheet, here an A4. Its size and margins are set before anything is drawn.
The water and the greenRivers, canals, parks and the ground they sit on, straight from OpenStreetMap.
Every buildingAll 26,914 of Berlin's buildings.
The street networkMain roads, railways and footpaths, each drawn at its own weight.
Your runThe GPS trace itself, fitted to the page and marked where you started and finished.
The wordsThe city, the date, your name and the numbers you chose to keep.

One run, three layouts

The layout decides what the poster is about.

The same poster in all three layouts. Only the layout changes.

Meridian · Classic route poster — ClassicFull page, signed underneath

Meridian · Magazine route poster — MagazineA cover masthead on top

Meridian · Medallion route poster — MedallionThe map cut to a disc

Four faces

Four typefaces to choose from.

The same poster in each of the four typefaces, cropped to the lettering at the bottom. It's too small to compare on a thumbnail, so here it is up close.

Meridian · Editorial route poster — EditorialClassy & artful · Cormorant

Meridian · Modern route poster — ModernBold & contemporary · Raleway Black

Meridian · Grandstand route poster — GrandstandCondensed & sporting · Oswald

Meridian · Boutique route poster — BoutiqueLuxe & high-contrast · Playfair Display

Three sheets, to scale

Each size is designed on its own.

A5, A4 and 30×40 are each laid out for their own sheet. A small print gives the lettering more room so it stays readable, and a large one uses the extra paper to show more of the city. Here they are at their real sizes, side by side.

Meridian · A5 route poster — A514.8 × 21 cm

Meridian · A4 route poster — A421 × 29.7 cm

Meridian · 30×40 route poster — 30×4030 × 40 cm

In a frame

Every frame covers a few millimetres of the print.

A frame holds the print by its edges, so it always covers a few millimetres. Most cover 5 to 12 mm. Every poster keeps its text and border at least 11 mm from the edge, so most frames only cover blank paper. The studio can show your poster in a frame before you buy.

The numbers

On every poster.

These are the same whichever choices you make.

300 DPI or betterEvery sheet is composed for itself rather than enlarged, and the download is never smaller than the best the shop offers.

3 mm bleedArtwork runs past the trim on all four sides, so a cut that wanders still lands on the picture rather than on white.

5 mm clear of the cutNo title, stat or border sits closer to the trim than this, which is what makes a hand-trimmed print safe.

11 mm clear for a frameA frame's lip covers the outer few millimetres. Everything of ours clears this, so all but the deepest frames cover nothing but paper.

Your turn

Now build one from your own run.

Bring a Strava activity, a GPX file or a race, and try all of this on your own route.

Start framing