Artist Creates Beautiful Fictional Maps as a Tribute to The Animal Kingdom

Mappa Animalia is a collection of illustrated maps by Dau Daw meant as a tribute to Mother Nature and the entire animal kingdom. The collection illustrates how animals and nature form tohether a beautiful symbiosis. Each map is honoring a specific class/family/subfamily of animal by naming mountains, seas, lakes, cities etc. The level of detail is made to match that of a real school map. Beautiful!

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