The details

A poster issix layerson one sheet of paper.

Every poster in the gallery is built the same way, out of the same parts. Here is one of them pulled apart. Further down are the decisions that make it yours, the layout, the typeface, the sheet and the frame, each one on its own with everything else held still.

The sheetAn A4 here, and every millimetre of whichever sheet you pick is decided before a line is drawn.
The water and the greenRivers, canals, parks and the ground they sit on, straight from OpenStreetMap.
Every buildingBerlin's footprints, all 26,914 of them, drawn one by one.
The street networkArterials, rail and footpaths, each at its own weight so the city has a hierarchy.
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.

Same route, same filter, same face, same colours. Only the layout moves, and it moves everything.

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

Type is a choice here, not a default.

The same poster set in each of the four faces the studio offers, cropped to the signature at the foot of the paper. On a thumbnail the lettering is barely two percent of the picture, so a wall of posters cannot show you this.

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

A bigger print is not the same poster, enlarged.

Every sheet is composed for itself rather than enlarged from A4. A small print gives its lettering proportionally more room, so it still reads at arm's length, and a big one spends the extra paper on the city around the run. So A3 is a map of your city and A5 a portrait of your route, shown here at their real sizes next to each other.

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

Meridian · A4 route poster — A421 × 29.7 cm

Meridian · A3 route poster — A329.7 × 42 cm

In a frame

Every frame covers a few millimetres of the print.

A picture frame holds the paper by its edges, so the outer few millimetres sit under the lip whichever frame you buy. Most cover between 5 and 12 mm, and every poster is composed to keep its titles, stats and border at least 11 mm clear of the trim. So all but the deepest frames cover nothing but paper, and the studio draws your own frame at any depth before you buy.

The numbers

What comes off the press.

Everything above is a choice. These are not: they are the same on every poster the studio makes, and they are what the file is built to survive.

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 every control on this page is one click away.

Start framing