32.0809°N / 81.0912°W · United States
Square, houses, square, houses: walk south from the river and the pattern comes back every few blocks. Savannah was not drawn as one great grid but as a single unit, a ward around its square, set down again and again until it reached the park.
You choose the framing, the palette and the words of the caption. The work is drawn from real data, then printed to order in the workshop closest to you.
The Savannah River runs across the top of the sheet, with the low land of Hutchinson Island beyond it, part green, part docks. The old town begins at once on the near bank. Just below the riverfront, small green squares appear in rows, evenly spaced, each one held in the middle of a few blocks, and the rows go on down the sheet to the long green rectangle of Forsyth Park, in its lower half. South of the park, the streets carry on in a plain grid with no squares in it, and the rhythm stops.
The squares do not stand out by their colour, since every patch of grass on this map takes the same green: they stand out by their spacing, so regular that the eye completes the pattern on its own. Forsyth Park is the largest green on the sheet. In the upper left, a bridge leaves the sheet towards the north and a knot of motorway ramps comes down to the edge of the old town. The rail lines along the river are drawn too pale to read.
The subject here is a rhythm of small green squares, so green carries this poster: choose one that stands out clearly against the paper, because each square is only a few millimetres across. Water is a single band at the top and can stay quiet; a deep ink there would pull the eye away from the squares. The streets around the wards are fine and regular, and a mid-tone line keeps them present without drowning the green.
Portrait, centred south of the engraved point, which sits on the riverfront: that is what brings the whole run of squares onto the sheet, from the river down to Forsyth Park. The newer neighbourhoods further south, and the river beyond the side edges, leave first. Pull back and the squares shrink to dots; come closer and they grow, but the park leaves the sheet.
The title, one line under it, the coordinates. In a city where every ward has its square, the caption can name yours: the square at the end of your street, the one you crossed every morning.
Sixteen inks, in the configurator’s order. It is one of the configurator’s own palettes: you will find it there as you compose.
Opens the colour workshop with these 15 inks in place: change one, keep the rest.
It will wait in your account, ready for any piece.
James Oglethorpe, the city’s founder, established its first six wards in 1733. At the centre of each ward was a public square, flanked to the east and west by lots set aside for public buildings, with house lots of sixty by ninety feet to the north and south. That unit, a square and the blocks around it, is the cell the whole old town is made of.
The plan did not stop at six wards. Over the next hundred years and more, mostly during the nineteenth century, the city extended it southward, ward after ward, ultimately creating twenty-four squares between the Savannah River and Gaston Street. On the sheet, the rows of green squares run from the riverfront down to the top of Forsyth Park, which begins at Gaston Street.
In the 1840s, William Brown Hodgson conceived the idea of setting aside ten acres of wooded land at the southern edge of the plan. It became Forsyth Park, and in 1854 a fountain and radiating walks were added. It is the long green rectangle below the squares: the place where the repeated wards give way to a single open space.
Yes. The search covers the whole world, from a capital to a hamlet. For the Sky collection, any date works, past or future: the sky is calculated.
From 21 × 29.7 cm to 84.1 × 118.9 cm, that is A4 to A0, portrait or landscape depending on the material. Every size is shown with its price in the editor.
Four, from the barest to the most dressed.
Making depends on the edition: 1 to 3 working days for Fine Art paper and wooden hangers, 3 days for the poster and the mounted frame, 3 to 5 days for the framed canvas. Transit depends on the country:
| Delivered to | In transit | In total |
|---|---|---|
| European Union | 5 to 7 working days | 6 to 12 working days |
| United Kingdom | 2 to 3 working days | 3 to 8 working days |
| United States | 4 to 6 working days | 5 to 11 working days |
| Canada | National delivery | Given at dispatch |
| Australia | National delivery | Given at dispatch |
These are standard delivery times and remain indicative. For a set date, order two to three weeks ahead.
Digital editions are available immediately: the file of your piece can be downloaded from your account as soon as you order, and an email lets you know the moment it is ready.
So many squares, and one of them was always on the way home. Find it on the sheet: it is the one your eye will go to first, every time you walk past.
Compose my Savannah poster
