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.

Changing U.S. land cover, 1985 – 2024