“All Roads Lead to the Regina Exhibition” print (1919)

Usually large urban centres dictate the stylish and “correct” way to design things, and that’s why I’m into this design-from-the-edge-of-the-world map advertising the 1919 Regina Provincial Exhibition. To modern eyes it’s a graph paper fetishist’s dream and a perfect expression of the province’s flatness. To a farmer’s eyes more than a century ago, it was probably a sense-bursting grid verging on incomprehensible. I love it, and am very happy that the University of Alberta’s Peel Library thought this worth preserving. 

A reproduction available at 12x12" or 24x24" on Epson Enhanced Matte 192 gsm paper printed with Epson UltraChrome XD2 archival ink. Sold in an open edition, unframed. Restored from this digital file found in the University of Alberta’s Peel Library.