Matt Khinda

Brooklyn-based graphic designer, urban planner, and cartographer

Available for freelance projects, commissions, and collaborations mattkhindahas@gmail.com

A GIF map of the continental United States made up of ASCII characters each corresponding to the dominant land use in a 30 kilometer grid. Forests are represented by ^+×, crops by =-, water by ~, cities by . ▫ ⊡ from low to high density, wetlands by wv, and shrubs and grassland by ·, The map animates through each year from 1985 to 2024 showing land use change over time.