AM7: The Sun Years Artists: Maik Stapelberg and Daniel Fritz
"The AM7 Sun Poster elaborates on a article written in AM7 magazine called "The Sun Years", which is a fictional story about Elvis being kidnapped, after an alien race listened to his music which was on the golden record sent on a Voyager probe in 1977. The poster, which measures 1024 x 840mm, shows a series of very elaborate and stylistic maps for the fictional world "Planet Roosta" whose continents bear a striking resemblance to a portrait of the King himself. The Poster forms a total graphic manual for Planet Roosta, showing everything from corporate color palette and typeface to pharmaceutical and food packaging, and maps the entire infrastructure of the civilisation. It includes a revised map of the solar system, a world map, a map of Sun Islands focusing on their roads, waterways and cities, a map of Wayon, the capital of North Alacarecca, a map of Sun, the capital of Sun Islands with a zoom-in Sun Downtown [streetmap] and also a ferry map for Sun Island."
[Text taken from the book "Mapping: An illustrated quide to graphic
navigational systems" by Roger Fawcett-Tang]
Artist Information: Maik Stapelberg and Daniel Fritz published AM7 magazine in 2001. It was their last student project before they did their diploma. Meanwhile they founded their own design studio "Stapelberg und Fritz - Büro für Gestaltung." Besides working on corporate design and magazine projects, they work hard on "Sinutype", the fontlabel of "Stapelberg und Fritz."
