About
“a big blue marble, beautiful and fragile“
EARTHRISE, the NASA photograph above, is why I started making world globes.
When I first saw it I was struck by how small the world had become, and by how frail it appeared.
For me the whole point of globe making is to disseminate information about the fragility of our planet, and, to create
understanding that the global culture is in a constant political, economic and environmental flux.
Technology continuously shrinks our world and makes its imprint on our environment; I believe that large world globes
afford a much better understanding of these relationships than any flat map could.
We need to be aware that we’re all the same, that we all live on one little planet, and that it is all we have.
We’re all in the same boat, so to speak, and each of us needs to take better care of it.
William Kiermaier
Owner and chief cartographer of GeoSpherical Graphics,
whose large world globes can be found in classrooms, corporate offices,
government buildings and libraries.
< – >
GeoSpherical Graphics
500 Covington Center
Covington, LA 75434
(985) 807-7478
cartographer@theworldglobe.com
RSS Feed