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'REM MAPS' LOGO THROUGH THE YEARS




 Summer 2002 - Castello di Melegnano
On my first map there's no brand. 'Rem Maps' still doesn't exist. To show my signature there's only a 'rem' drowned in the blue frame. In the second map also (Senago) the layout is similar.



January 2005 - Parco Nord MBO
First logo 'Rem Maps' appears on MBO map of Parco Nord (Mountain-Bike orienteering maps are important in my early years, as I learned mapping mainy on them). The orienteering flag is green, to match the colour of the layout. Used font for 'rem maps' is a simple 'Lucida Sans'.



March 2005 - S.Donato Milanese
Soon the green on the flag becomes a more familiar orange. I try to re-create this orange for spot colors printing (usually in offset printing only orienteering colors are available - yellow green brown blue black purple)and I find a good solution combining YELLOW 100% with BROWN 20% (very similar to the original CMYB 0 50 100 0). Ironically I will never print one of my maps offset (only laser printing) until 2014, with the Zebio-Asiago map for Erebus Vicenza.



March 2009 - Loco di Rovegno
In 2009 I feel like a new logo is needed. I'm becoming a pro mapper and the logo needs to be more professional too. In the new logo the lettering is made in a pixel-like way and it looks like the brand is hanged to a wall with masking tape. Masking tape (until tablet surveying) has always been important in the map maker's gear to tape base map to wooden board and mylar.



September 2020 - Piani di Praglia
With the revolution in survey for software (OpenOrienteering Mapper), device (Android mobile phone) and GPS (ublox) a new logo is needed to celebrate change. Serendipity helps to find the new logo: for the OpenOrienteering Mapper forum you need a square logo so I have to make it square. I like the new style a lot and it becomes the official logo soon. It is very simple, tape at the corners is removed (symbolizing the past), REM is deleted and only MAPS remain. I don't need to get new customers, and the old ones recognize REM MAPS even with a stripped logo.

To see how mapping gear has changed through the years click here
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