Ink&Altitude

Data-driven wall art

Every print starts as actual data.

Lake bathymetry, summit elevations, airport layouts, race-circuit geometry, climb gradients - redrawn as something worth hanging. No stock imagery. No AI filler.

If a chart here says a lake is 89 metres deep, that came from a survey. Printed to order on 200gsm matte paper at a production partner near you.

LakeLines print of Torch Lake, Michigan: nested pale blue depth contours on a deep navy ground, with a spec plate giving max depth and coordinates.
LakeLines · Torch Lake, Michigan Max depth 250 ft · 44.9465°N / 85.3067°W
Michigan DNR ArcGIS contours · Copernicus Sentinel data 2025

Why it looks like that

Three rules the work has to pass.

01

The source is named

Not "inspired by" a survey - taken from one. State geological services, national mapping agencies, published ephemerides, OpenStreetMap. The authority is set on the face of the print.

02

Drawn, not generated

Geometry goes in and a print comes out through a renderer that has no imagination. Nothing is smoothed to look better, and no shape is invented to fill a gap in the data.

03

Refusal is a feature

When the data will not verify, the print does not get made. Three race circuits and an entire state's worth of lakes are held back right now for exactly that reason.

Available now

In the works

Six more lines, each tied to its own dataset.

These are being built now. None of them is on sale yet, and none of them will be until its data passes the same checks. Here is what they are and where each one comes from.

LakeLines print of Torch Lake, Michigan: nested pale blue depth contours on a deep navy ground, with a spec plate giving max depth and coordinates.
013 In production

LakeLines

A lake drawn as what it actually is underwater - nested depth contours, surveyed, with the maximum depth and the coordinates set in the margin.

DatasetMI / MN DNR bathymetric depth contours + USGS NHD shoreline

Apex Lines print of Spa-Francorchamps: the circuit outline as a single closed black line with a red inner edge, on bone paper.
077 In production

Apex Lines

A circuit reduced to the one thing that matters: the closed ring of the track, traced from surveyed geometry rather than redrawn by eye.

DatasetOpenStreetMap aeroway-grade circuit ring geometry

Cask & Compass print of Scotland's whisky distilleries: 159 numbered points coloured by region over a fine outline map, with a numbered legend beneath.
054 In production

Cask & Compass

Every active distillery in a whisky region, numbered, placed on its real coordinates and listed with its founding year.

DatasetDistillery geocodes, four whisky regions

Summit Sheet peak-bagging checklist poster for the Colorado 14ers: a ranked list of 58 summits with tick boxes, set on a dark ground.
052 In production

Summit Sheet

A peak-bagging checklist you tick off, ordered properly - by prominence-ranked elevation, with the full list rather than a rounded-off selection.

DatasetColorado 14ers, prominence-ranked

Gradient Climb print of Alpe d'Huez: the climb as a filled silhouette, each kilometre segment shaded by gradient, with per-kilometre labels.
076 In development

Gradient Climb

A famous climb as its own elevation profile - one bar per kilometre, shaded by gradient, with the numbers that make the suffering legible.

DatasetCycling climb elevation profiles

Cleared Direct print of Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson in a blueprint colourway: runway and taxiway geometry drawn as fine pale lines on a dark ground.
074 In development

Cleared Direct

An airport stripped to its geometry - runways and taxiways in the layout a pilot actually reads, with nothing decorative added.

DatasetOpenStreetMap aeroway runway & taxiway geometry

Provenance

What happens when the data fails.

A print that cannot prove where it came from is just a picture of a lake. The working rule
Worked example - Monaco

Apex Lines binds every circuit to an exact OpenStreetMap relation ID and a Wikidata QID before it renders. Monaco's current relation will not assemble into a closed main-course ring.

There is cached geometry from an earlier snapshot that would have drawn a perfectly convincing Monaco. The renderer is built so it cannot reach for it. Monaco is refused, and the three-circuit sets that would have included it stay held.

How a print gets verified

The shop is on Etsy.

A Year of the Moon is available now as an instant download. The rest of the range is in production - the shop is where each line appears first.