For reasons both poetic and pragmatic, the tree has historically been the designer's go-to inspiration for mapping relationships. In the graphic below, Finish-Swedish illustrator Minna Sundberg ...

“The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape,” by Katie Holten. (Tin House) Communicators. Migrants. Soothsayers.

She adds: “I’ve always been fascinated by just how large the cultural and geographic sprawl of the people who speak Indo-European languages is, while the Uralic languages are limited to a relatively ...