Oregon Dept. of Fish & WIldlife
Access: Oregon travel guide
The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife contracted us to create a guidebook to outdoor recreation areas offering access to the disabled. Working with veteran copywriter George Taylor, we conceived Access: Oregon as an all-weather regional travel guide that would be especially useful to the disabled, converting a sheaf of State-generated spreadsheets into a roadmap-sized booklet of comprehensive, accurate maps and crisp, detailed site synopses, but with the emphasis on recreation and the outdoors, rather than disability.
Cover and introductory material.
We sized the piece so that it would fit in the glove compartment with other maps.
Map, micro view.
Throughout, we sought to maintain an explicit relationship between the maps and explanatory data.
Each region has its own map, set opposite a descriptive matrix, keeping the relevant information set manageable. Descriptions observe a rigorous typographical hierarchy.
Maps were created especially for this publication, simplified, but with all major roads and landmarks indicated; we wanted it to be useful even — or perhaps especially — if it happened to be the only navigational information in your glove box.
Maps, micro- and macro view.
An overall map showing the entire state folds out from the back cover, so that the user can use both maps simultaneously. All maps indicate all relevant highways and landmarks, towns and cities, and county boundaries.
