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Miami Boat Show Maps 2012

Posted by John Potter at 27 January 2012

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Miami Yacht and Brokerage Show
Parking and Transit Map

Miami Boat Show Map
Miami Boat Show Sea Isle Marina Map
Miami Boat Show Bayside Map
Miami Boat Show Miami Convention Center Map

Once again it’s time for The Miami Boat Show (February 16th-20th, 2012), and I’ve been busy revising maps and making some new ones.

As you may not realize The Miami Boat Show actually consists of three boat shows. The Yacht and Brokerage Show is managed by Show Management, and The Miami International Boat Show and Strictly Sail Miami are both managed by The National Marine Manufacturers Association (informally known as NMMA).

Miami Beach Convention Center
Parking Map

Last year I designed the Collins Avenue venue map for Show Management and The Miami Beach Convention Center, Sea Isle Marina & Yachting Center and Miamarina at Bayside venue maps for NMMA. This year I revised all four of those maps (and NMMA’s transit map) and also designed a parking map for The Miami Beach Convention Center venue for NMMA and a parking map for the Collins Avenue venue for Show Management. Here are dedicated links to the The Miami Beach Convention Center (zoomable or flat image), Sea Isle Marina & Yachting Center (zoomable or flat image), Miamarina at Bayside (zoomable or flat image) and Collins Avenue (zoomable or flat image) venue maps.

If you haven’t seen last year’s videos of the process of creation of the Collins Avenue map and the Sea Isle and Bayside maps please have a look.

I hope you enjoy the new maps as well as the updates.

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St. Petersburg Boat Show Map

Posted by John Potter at 9 November 2011

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This is my first year of designing and illustrating the map for the The St. Petersburg Power & Sailboat Show in Saint Petersburg, Florida for Show Management. As usual I used Adobe Illustrator and worked from CAD drawings supplied by Show Management. I didn’t make one of my videos of the work in progress as I have in the past, but you can view previous ones here if you like. I hope you enjoy the map.

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Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Map Uses

Posted by John Potter at 28 October 2011

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I just want to make a short post highlighting some of the many ways the 2011 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show map has been used.

Folding FLIBS Map
2011 Fold Out Map
Map as it appears in the phone app
in the phone app
you are here signs
as “you are here” signs
Map as it appears in Yachts International Magazine
in Yachts International Magazine
Map as it appears in the program
in the boat show program

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Children’s Parties Rack Card

Posted by John Potter at 19 October 2011

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Finished rack card Rack card without text

I just finished a little project for Flamingo Gardens here in Davie, Florida that I would like to share. It wasn’t a big or complicated project, but sometimes potential is where you make it and I did my best to make this rack card something special.

The folks at Flamingo Gardens approached me with a request to update their children’s parties rack card. The one they had was very straight forward. It had some stock photography laid out nicely and a party hat had been photoshopped onto a parrot and flamingo’s heads. It was nicely done, but reserved and it seemed to appeal to parents wanting a quiet and orderly event rather than kids wanting to have fun.

I came up with a fairly nutty illustration concept and began moving toward something that looked pretty finished to show them right away. Although my early sketchs showed potential to me, I think they would have looked kind of crazy to anyone else. I didn’t think a written description of the illustration could possibly sell them on the idea either. I was convinced that if they saw it they would like it. Although I had risked wasting some time, they did like the concept when they saw it and everything went smoothly. Now Flamingo Gardens has a nice new rack card to advertise their birthday party package and I have a nice illustration I am happy to add to my portfolio.

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2011 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Map

Posted by John Potter at 10 September 2011

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Once again it’s time for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. This time it’s the 52nd Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show and I have been contracted by Show Management to update and upgrade the maps they used last year as well as make some new maps and uses for the maps.

In addition to the large map that features the Bahia Mar venue and the map of the Fort Lauderdale Convention Center I have created maps for the Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, Sails Marina, six details of the main map for use in the boat show program and the transit map I featured on my blog back in June.
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Dinosaur World Map Update for 2011

Posted by John Potter at 21 August 2011

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You may recall that I designed Dinosaur World in Plant City, Florida’s visitor map back in March 2010. I made a video of the design process at the time. You can see it on my March 26th 2010 post.

Dinosaur World in Plant City has now expanded and thus needed some revisions to their existing map. The park is a lot bigger, so be sure and drop by Dinosaur World and check it out, and when you are ready for your next map be sure and contact me.

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Florida Seminole Heritage Map Video

Posted by John Potter at 11 August 2011

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I was recently subcontracted by City Streetz, a full service graphics shop here in Fort Lauderdale, to create a map for The Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum highlighting some of Florida’s Seminole Indian heritage. City Streetz frequently calls upon me for illustration projects and, of course, maps.

Map Cover (and back cover on left)

The Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum had an existing map, but it was very dated, so my task was to bring it up to date. The map was to be in a poster format (34′X22") that folded down to 8.5"X11". For the map itself, this meant completely recreating it and for the rest of the panels on the map the previous design could serve as a rough guide. I screen captured some of the highlights of the project in time lapse video. I hope you enjoy it.

To learn more about City Streetz visit CityStreetz.net and for more information on the Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum visit ahtahthiki.com. To see a zoomable map (if you don’t already) click the “more” link below.

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2011 Fort Lauderdale Boat Show Map

Posted by John Potter at 14 June 2011

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One of my recent projects has been an overview map of the separate venues that constitute the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show. Although it isn’t isometric, I used a lot of the same techniques I normally use in Adobe Illustrator to achieve the look they wanted. I look forward to seeing the 2011 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show transit map in use.
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