Roosje Klap is a studio for visual communication, mainly graphic design. The studio researches the experimental boundaries of custom fit design, collaborative yet peculiar.
We mainly work for a clientèle in the cultural field: museums, galleries, art publishers and artists.

Clients include The Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Fonds BKVB, the Mondrian Foundation, The Audax Textile Museum, SKOR, Foam, The Royal Dutch Mint, The Van Gogh Museum and for publishers like Valiz, Nieuw Amsterdam, Pels&Kemper, Revolver, JRP Ringier and Ridinghouse.

Recent projects lead to collaborations with Krist Gruijthuijsen & Koen Brams, Scholten & Baijings, Katrin Korfmann, Jan Rothuizen and Mister Motley.

Roosje Klap

Mercator

Gerardus Mercator, original name Gerard De Cremer, or Kremer? (born March 5, 1512, Rupelmonde, Flanders [now in Belgium]—died December 2, 1594, Duisburg, Duchy of Cleve [Germany]), Flemish cartographer whose most important innovation was a map, embodying what was later known as the Mercator projection on which parallels and meridians are rendered as straight lines spaced so as to produce at any point an accurate ratio of latitude to longitude. He also introduced the term atlas for a collection of maps.

Atlas

Atlas, a collection of maps or charts, usually bound together. The name derives from a custom—initiated by Gerardus Mercator in the 16th century—of using the figure of the Titan Atlas, holding the globe on his shoulders, as a frontispiece for books of maps. In addition to maps and charts, atlases often contain pictures, tabular data, facts about areas, and indexes of place-names keyed to coordinates of latitude and longitude or to a locational grid with numbers and letters along the sides of maps.

Mapping is creating graphic representations of information using spatial relationships within the graphic to represent some relationships within the data. The common and original practice of mapping is the scaled portrayal of geographical features, that is, cartography. In the contemporary sense of data visualization, it includes metaphorical extensions of geographical map conventions and literacies to other kinds of data, as well as innovative ways of visualizing data not clearly related to the geographical archetype. In popular vernacular, mapping can just mean organizing or systematizing information.

Mapping

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/375638/Mercator-projection

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