Illustration, 2022

Tidewater Almanac

Twelve tide charts drawn as wave patterns, one for every month of the year.

Client: Coastal Trust Annual
Role: Illustration and layout
Year: 2022

The brass-ringed dials of a tide predicting machine labelled day, hour and minute on a black panel

Brief

A coastal conservation trust wanted a calendar that made the tide tables worth hanging on a wall.

Approach

Each month began as the real tide curve for the harbor, drawn out as a line, then repeated and offset until the line became a field of water. Colours move from deep blue in winter to teal and coral in late summer.

An 1879 nautical chart of Cape Cod Bay with the curving hook of the cape and soundings along the shore

Outcome

A twelve-page wall calendar and a poster of the full year.

Credits

Illustration: Linden & Pike
Data: public tide tables
Commissioned by: Coastal Trust

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