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Mos Factory Cutaway Building Jigsaw Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Australian street furniture design and manufacture company Mos to create the artwork for their annual jigsaw puzzle gift to their clients. This year they wanted to create a fictionalised cutaway building illustration of their offices and factory to showcase the company's production processes, manufacturing capabilities and business departments. The iconic historical industrial space the White Bay Power Station in Sydney was used as the inspiration for the factory building. 

The illustrated factory features the different production stages from beginning to end including welding, CNC pipe bending, powder coating, timber bending, timber cutting and machining, assembly, quality control and final packaging. Business elements were also shown including the design department, R&D, product testing, staff recreation area, marketing, and business development. Rod created portraits of key staff  members in the business that were shown working in their respective departments. Can you also spot the pop culture references from An Officer and a Gentleman, Terminator II and Charlie & the Chocolate Factory?

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Humayun's World Heritage Site Museum Illustrated Map Mural Exhibit

Rod Hunt was commissioned by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to design a huge and detailed illustrated map of the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site, Nizamuddin Basti and the Sunder Nursery for a permanent exhibit at the new Humayun World Heritage Site Museum in New Delhi. The aim of the map was to help visitors understand the world heritage site, its dense ensemble of medieval monuments and its immediate setting. Rod worked closely with Ratish Nanda CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to create a detailed an accurate representation of the architectural restoration and conservation of the historic tombs, monuments and wider site. This hugely complicated map illustration had to accurately depict the tombs and monuments architectural features down to the smallest detail. The final mural illustration is printed at 12m x 4.5m in size and is displayed in the vestibule gallery of the museum. 

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WTA Finals 2024 Riyadh - Illustrated Sporting Event Map Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Black Orange Live to illustrate the official sporting event map for the WTA Finals 2024 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The map needed to show the sports arena, practice courts, fan zones, VIP Hospitality Zones and public car parks. Rod worked from the site flat plan schematics, visualisations of the fan zone attractions, interior renders of hospitality in the VIP areas and satellite imagery of the overall neighbourhood to create the detailed map illustration.

The WTA Finals is the season-ending championship of the WTA Tour. It is the most significant tennis event in the women's annual calendar after the four majors, as it features the top eight singles players and top eight doubles teams based on their results throughout the season.

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F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024 Circuit & Event Map

Rod Hunt was commissioned by the Saudi Motorsport Company to create a detailed 'Disneyland' style map illustration for the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2024 held at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Measuring 6.175 kilometers the Jeddah Corniche Circuit is the fastest and longest street circuit on the F1 calendar. Its many high-speed corners make it a favourite for both drivers and fans. The illustrated map was used on the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix website, wayfinding and in the visitors event guide.

The map needed to capture the vibrancy and excitement of the night race and include the F1 Paddock Club, Premium Hospitality, F1 Champions Club, Fan Villages, Jeddah Art Promenade, Concert arena and parking facilities. Other local landmarks including the Jeddah Yacht Club, Floating Mosque, Shangrila Hotel and Red Sea Mall were also represented. 

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University of Utah Stadium Cutaway Cross Section Building Illustration by Rod Hunt

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Pentagram to create an architectural cutaway building illustration of the University of Utah’s Rice-Eccles Stadium for University of Utah Magazine showcasing the facilities in the new Ken Garff University Club.

From gourmet bites to social delights, the Ken Garff University Club adds a fresh spark to our evolving campus scene.  

Get to Know the Club. The Ken Garff University Club operates in designated spaces on all three floors of the south end zone building. Some areas of the building are closed to club members. On game days, only football season ticket holders and athletics donors can access the building.

Restaurant Level Restaurant (A) and bar (B) with daily specials and a seasonally rotating menu; (C) Hospitality breakfast station open M-F; (D) AV-capable board‑ room for private events; (E) Patios for dining and events in warmer months.

Suite Level (F) Private suite available to work in; (G) Spaces available to rent for private events.

Field Level (H) Large central space hosts away-game watch parties, yoga in summer, and other events

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Illustrated Maps: Different Styles, Approaches & Uses

Rod Hunt is a London, UK based map illustrator specialising in detailed illustrated isometric maps and plans for school campuses, theme parks, events, parks and cities.

Style, Approach and Uses of Illustrated Maps

With 30 years experience as an illustrated map designer he’s created maps for clients worldwide including schools, universities, sporting events, theme parks, tourism brands and more. His love of detailed maps was fuelled by theme park and tourist attraction maps from his childhood. Rod's own maps are usually very detailed adding layers of humour and interest often populated with little characters and easter eggs to entertain the viewers as well as inform. Clarity of navigation is essential ahead of the detail, the London Underground Map is great example of distilling a map down to its essential elements by simplifying the geography, it’s often on Rod's mind when working on a visual approach for a new map project.

In this article Rod showcases his various styles and ways of executing an illustrated map suitable for a client's needs. What do you need from an illustrated or pictorial map, is it ease of use as a navigational tool with geographic accuracy, exciting marketing images or a mixture of both? A simpler graphic map or levels of detail and complexity? It's important to understand how the map will be used when briefing a map illustrator to ensure it meets the requirements of its users.

Illustrated Theme Park and Tourist Attraction Maps

Creating a fun and engaging map for your theme park or tourist attraction is very important as it gives it excitement beyond a functional navigational tool becoming a key marketing promotion to instil excitement to potential visitors. 

Rod Hunt illustrated the Visitors Map for Chessington World of Adventures Theme Park. The key aims were to simplify the complex layout of the park to create an accurate and easy navigation tool for visitors, to be colourful, fun and appealing to the target family audience and to be easily updatable for the inclusion of future rides and attractions. The rides and attractions were illustrated in a fun and detailed way playing with scale while keeping a level of accurate depiction.

Illustrated visitors map for Chessington World of Adventures Theme Park

Illustrated Property Development Maps 

Rod was commissioned to visualise the different phases of a new properly development for an advertising campaign for Bhartiya City outside Bangalore, India.  The property development required a detailed 3D illustrated map using isometric perspective as a key visual to promote the development to potential residents and businesses. Rod worked from a huge amount of architectural drawings of the buildings, 3D renders and site plans of the upcoming phases to create a playful, colourful, green and vibrant place to live and work. Another more architectural approach can be seen in his Battersea Power Station Development Map which gives a neighbourhood overview of the current and upcoming phases of the multi-billion Pound development in London that surrounds Battersea Power Station.

 Bhartiya City Isometric property development map illustration used for a major advertising campaign

Illustrated Campus Maps and Site Plans for Schools, Colleges and Universities

Schools, colleges and universities can have various needs from an illustrated map or plan, a navigational tool, overview of the campus buildings or a key showcase of facilities. With Rod's illustrated campus site map for Santa Clara University the aim was to highlight some of the significant ways that the campus was transformed with new buildings and facilities built over the last two decades. A simper approach was chosen to depict the campus with a more graphic and simplified style. 

Rod's Cheltenham College Prep School Campus Map took a different route with more detail and exaggerated depictions of the buildings and cutaway's to show interiors. There was also an added layer of Where's Waldo / Wally? style search and find for extra interest and excitement. The map illustration was used as a key marketing tool and an interactive page on the schools website to showcase the superb facilities of the school.

Illustrated campus map for Santa Clara University

Detailed City Map Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned to create a detailed and expansive illustrated city map of the historic city of Jodhpur for The JDH, an Urban Regeneration Project that aims to restore the Walled City of Jodhpur to its former glory, breathing new life into its invaluable landmarks and livelihoods. The illustrated map of this ancient city needed to capture a sense of fantasy and magical reality that included Jodhpur's key landmarks and monuments, main street routes as well as elements of Jodhpur's rich culture, architecture and landscape. 

Detailed and expansive illustrated city map of the historic city of Jodhpur

Illustrated Tourist Maps of Landmarks

Another approach is a mixture of a simpler graphic background with highly rendered accurate illustrations of buildings and landmarks like in Rod's illustrated map of 101 sites in New York for Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises. Their aim was to show the different landmarks, buildings, monuments, neighbourhoods and attractions a customer can see from their various New York cruise routes around Manhattan. Here he creates an overview of landmarks in New York with less emphasis on the maps use as a navigational tool. Highly rendered buildings and landmarks feature in the approximate location with simpler graphic background, playing with scale to enhance impact and clarity.

Illustrated map of 101 sites in New York for Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises

Sports and Entertainment Event Maps

The Saudi Arabian e-prix and event map needed to convey the overall site the sporting event for use as a navigational tool and marketing tool. The brief was to create a fun, detailed and engaging 'Disneyland' style theme park map illustration showing the race circuit, wider festival site, hospitality and facilities on offer across the three days of the Formula E event with live music from international artists, entertainment, cultural activities and gripping city street racing. A mixture of clear routes for navigation was mixed with detailed depictions of the site features. 

A more focused approach was required for Time Out's 50th Birthday Party Event Map Illustration, a one night event at a small intimate site in Granary Square King's Cross. Rod went into great detail for each of the areas, including live music stages, comedy stage, hospitality and facilities to care an exciting overview of the event. The map illustration was used as a key marketing tool in the run up to the night.

Saudi Arabian e-prix and event map 

Building Cutaway and Exploded View Maps

Print company 1st Byte wanted to create an exploded view building virtual tour map to show customers the company's extensive print and finishing facilities. Rod illustrated an exploded cutaway building illustration that showed the company at work. The image was used an an interactive tour showing each floor in detail with key printing machinery shown in detail.

Illustrated Event Maps for Trade Shows and Exhibitions

Rod Hunt created a detailed and fun exhibition and event map illustration for the Top Gear Live show at Excel London, in the style of his bestselling Top Gear Where's Stig? search and find book. The map needed to show the indoor racing track, Live Action Arena plus a recreation of the Top Gear studio, special tributes to Top Gear's greatest challenges and some of the more creative and famous machinery from the TV show. The illustration was used as a key marketing image to promote the event.

Exhibition and event map illustration for the Top Gear Live show at Excel London

If you're looking to commission an illustrated map please feel free to contact Rod to discuss your requirements. 

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Humayun's Tomb Museum Illustrated Map Mural

Rod Hunt was commissioned by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to create a huge and detailed illustrated map of the Humayun's Tomb World Heritage Site, Nizamuddin Basti and the Sunder Nursery for the new Humayun World Heritage Site Museum in New Delhi. The aim of the map was to help visitors understand the world heritage site, its dense ensemble of medieval monuments and its immediate setting. Rod worked closely with Ratish Nanda CEO of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to create a detailed an accurate representation of the restoration and conservation of the historic tombs, monuments and wider site. This hugely complicated map illustration had to accurately depict the tombs and monuments architectural features down to the smallest detail. The final mural is printed at 12m x 4.5m in size and is installed in the vestibule gallery of the museum. 

View full project here

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Illustrated Maps: Different Styles, Approaches & Uses

With 30 years experience as an illustrated map designer he’s created maps for clients worldwide including schools, universities, sporting events, theme parks, tourism brands and more. His love of detailed maps was fuelled by theme park and tourist attraction maps from his childhood. Rod's own maps are usually very detailed adding layers of humour and interest often populated with little characters and easter eggs to entertain the viewers as well as inform. Clarity of navigation is essential ahead of the detail, the London Underground Map is great example of distilling a map down to its essential elements by simplifying the geography, it’s often on Rod's mind when working on a visual approach for a new map project.

In this article Rod showcases his various styles and ways of executing an illustrated map suitable for a client's needs. What do you need from an illustrated or pictorial map, is it ease of use as a navigational tool with geographic accuracy, exciting marketing images or a mixture of both? A simpler graphic map or levels of detail and complexity? It's important to understand how the map will be used when briefing a map illustrator to ensure it meets the requirements of its users.

Read the full article here

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Christmas Search and Find Illustration by Rod Hunt

Rod Hunt was commissioned to create a Where's Waldo / Wally? style Christmas search and find illustration for Brittanica's What on Earth? magazine. Can you find all the hidden objects and the festive word in this detailed seasonal scene?

This illustration is available to licence, please contact Rod for details.

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Winter Wonderland Christmas Search & Find Illustration by Rod Hunt

Rod Hunt was commissioned to create a Where's Waldo / Wally? style Winter Wonderland Christmas search and find illustration for Brittanica's What on Earth? magazine. Can you find the hidden objects and festive word in this seasonal picture?

This illustration is available to licence, please contact Rod for details.

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MB&F Watchmaker - M.A.D. House Cutaway Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned by watchmaker MB&F to create a cutaway building illustration of the M.A.D.House, their headquarters in a century-old house in Geneva, Switzerland. The illustration was an end of year 'Thank You' to all their friends, collectors and fans. Built between 1907 and 1908, the house’s exterior exudes history and character. The brief called for Rod to interpret the interior and exterior of the house, include key figures in the company as well as their horological machines. Science-fiction is a big inspiration for the brand so some references to this was also included, many of their pieces look like spaceships, robots and strange creatures.

Founded in 2005, MB&F is the world’s first-ever horological concept laboratory. MB&F turn traditional watchmaking of the highest craftsmanship into futuristic, fiercely unconventional timekeeping machines. These sculptured, three-dimensional cases and beautifully-finished engines are called ‘Machines’. MB&F is continuing to follow Founder and Creative Director Maximilian Büsser’s vision of creating 3-D kinetic art by deconstructing traditional watchmaking.

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Mos Urban Mars Colony Jigsaw Puzzle Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned by street furniture design and manufacture company Mos Urban to create a search and find style Mars City illustration for their annual client jigsaw puzzle Christmas present. The illustration features some of their furniture ranges across the Mars Colony environments as well as various sci-fi movie references and SpaceX's Starship. View the mars colony illustration

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Mr Beast Feastables $100,000 Treasure Chest Map

Confectionary company Mr Beast Feastables commissioned Rod Hunt to create an illustrated map of the fictitious Feastables Island to promote Mr Beast Bars' $100,000 Treasure Chest competition in Australia. The island incorporated various recognisable stunts from Mr Beast's YouTube channel including Willy Wonka World, Seven stranded at sea, I gave my 100 millionth subscriber an island and Last to leave the circle wins $500,000. The illustration also featured Jimmy Donaldson aka Mr Beast and his crew; Chandler, Nolan, Karl,and Kris. The promotion was fronted by Australian YouTuber LazarBeam. View the MrBeast Island illustrated Map

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F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023 Circuit & Event Map

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Blink Experience and the Saudi Motorsport Company to create a detailed 'Disneyland' style map for the F1 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix 2023 held at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit. Measuring 6.175 kilometers the Jeddah Corniche Circuit is the fastest and longest street circuit on the F1 calendar. Its many high-speed corners make it a favourite for both drivers and fans. 

The map needed to capture the vibrancy and excitement of the night race and include the F1 Paddock Club, Premium Hospitality, F1 Champions Club, Fan Villages, Jeddah Art Promenade, Concert arena and parking facilities. Other local landmarks including the Jeddah Yacht Club, Floating Mosque, Shangrila Hotel and Red Sea Mall were also represented. 

View the full Saudi Arabian Grand Prix map illustration

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NCEL Winners Club: Find The Hidden Scratch-offs Game

FIND THE HIDDEN SCRATCH-OFFS.

Any win gets you in! Explore a world of fun and festive possibilities in the Winners Club. 

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Cactus to illustrate a Where’s Waldo / Wally style illustration for the North Carolina Education Lottery that allows fans to imagine themselves in the world of the Winners Club.��A microsite WinnersClubWorld.com was created where users can scroll around the image to search for the 15 hidden scratch-offs and a chance to win a prize pack of Red Hot Millions scratch-off tickets. 

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Radical Motorsports Factory Illustration

Rod Hunt was commissioned by Radical Motorsports to create an illustration of their factory in Peterborough where their iconic racing cars are manufactured.  

The illustration appeared in the first edition of their new customer magazine launched to celebrate 25 years of Radical Motorsport.

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Where’s ‘Your Dog’? A Personalised Dog Book From Yappy.com. 

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Rod Hunt has collaborated with Yappy.com to create Where's 'Your Dog'?, a personalised Search and Find book featuring your very own dog! On the Yappy website enter your dog's breed, colour and name, it's then hidden though out 12 crazily detailed scenes. Available only at Yappy.com

Breaking news! Your Dog has escaped through the garden gate, fled the paw-parazzi, leapt and bounded across the country and dug up a whole new adventure! Can you help find your dog? Unleash your inner detective to search and find your daring dog as they embark on an epic journey through the weird and wonderful world dedicated to our four-legged friends. With twelve beautifully illustrated locations to explore, each double-page spread is bustling with exciting scenarios - with every scene personalised just for your dog. Prepare to have your eyes boggled and patience tested as you scan each page for your dog and the fur-bulous friends your dog meets on this epic adventure. Guaranteed to be the most barked about Christmas Gift this year. 

Find Your Dog in 12 ‘pawesome’ scenes. 

Perfect for the whole family. Personalised just for your dog. 

30 Fun Packed Pages Illustrated by Rod Hunt. 

World Exclusive: Only Available at Yappy.com. 

Possibly the Greatest Gift for Dog Lovers.