3D Model Collections
Blender & Bambu Studio | 2026
Ever since our amazing GeoGraphics Lab director Alicia Iverson got us a 3D printer, I’ve been absolutely obsessed with making and printing all sorts of models. I would like to show you some printed models I made in blender.
ArcGIS & Blender & Adobe Illustrator | 2026 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
This map features all major travel attractions and destinations around Alps. The place names are spelled in the local languages. The background hillshade is rendered through Blender to mimic a natural vibe.
ArcGIS & Adobe Illustrator | 2026 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
This map features communities, buildings, springs, and other attrictions honoring the history of those places to shape the urban landscape in central Jinan. I adopted traditional Chinese Heavenly Stems
ordinals（甲乙丙丁...) as index locators.
ArcGIS & Blender & Adobe Illustrator | 2025 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
A simple map of Cusco and surrounding areas, with an oblique perspective to emphasize the complicated arid and rough terrains of the area.
ArcGIS & Adobe Illustrator | 2025 | Presented in Big Ten GIS Conference
The undergrounds are presented high in the visual hierarchy to visualize how expansive the public transportation network is.
Adobe Illustrator | 2024 | Presented in Penn State GIS Days
Suitable for a themal printer to print on swell papers.
A Database and Dashboard of Natural Springs in Jinan, China
ArcGIS Online & Adobe Illustrator for poster | 2025 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
The database collects information on about one thousand springs within municipal boundaries of Jinan, and then I visualized them on a map. The locations of springs within the old city of Jinan are accurate within 5 meters, while those in the suburban areas are only precise to the village level, sometimes with errors of up to several hundred meters. Due to the limited data, if you have any information related to the springs, please click the contact section above and submit the questionnaire to help us improve the spring data of Jinan.
ArcGIS & Adobe Illustrator & Dall-E | 2025
I uses GPT & Dall-E to generate small snapshots of buildings on the side panels.
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator & Blender & Procreate | 2025 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
I used many software to make this map - ArcGIS to generate the background reference information, Adobe Illustrator for major designs, Blender for terrain rendering, and Procreate to draw artistic style of the Great Wall. This map presents Great Walls of China across different areas and ages. I intentially adopted a oblique perspective from Mongolia to visualize how this defense network is seen from the perspectives from north to south - challenging the traditional top-down perspectives. The forts and mountain passes are labeled in both English and Chinese, with the Chinese labels placed in a traditional top-down topography.
Adobe Illustrator | 2025 | Posted in Reddit
This is a fantasy map that features an imagined high speed network around the world. This map is highly schematic and features many interesting ideas, such as the Orbital Rail on the high sky above equator, and also the Earth Departure Station.
Procreate & Adobe Illustrator | 2025 | Presented in NACIS gallery & Esri UC
Collaborated with Julia Byrnes under the supervision of Alicia Iverson
A Work for the GeoGraphics Lab
This map features locations of Penn State Online Geospatial Education alumni, classified through degrees and certificates offered. To emphasize the fact that majority of our students are from the United States, we attached an inset map to feature the point data. This map offers exquisite bivariate designs based on the sizes and colors of data points, and a beautiful Watermann Butterfly Projection. This map is a perfect example of integrating elements through various map production platforms, including ArcGIS Pro, Adobe Illustrator, and Procreate. Since this map was made, many students in the GeoGraphics Lab have started experimenting with mapmaking in Procreate and bringing such elements into traditional mapmaking workflow.
Adobe Illustrator | 2022-2023 | Posted on Reddit
This map shows all the major passenger train networks around the world, with ferries and buses in case if there is no train transport. View detail version image here. Please remember that this project took me 9 months to finish, so there must be errors and outdated information (especially in Europe).
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator | 2024 | Printed inside the Walker Building, Penn State
I have both the light version and the night version of State College map. The night version featured on this portfolio is characterized by the subtle outer glows from the roads and buildings.
Three Maps below
ArcGIS & Adobe Illustrator | 2024
Hantavirus Outbreak, Highlights of Norway, and EMS Earth Week Scavenger Hunt
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator | 2023 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
This map uses Natural Earth II projection. I manually drew the illustrative figure below to put many diverse landscapes around the world together. The icons used in the figure below are also used in the map.
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator | 2022 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
The greatest desert on the earth is not a completely barren land. There are many, many places worth to visit in Sahara.
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator | 2022
These pages are intended as a draft chapter of a World Travel Atlas in my mind. Hopefully someday I can finish all of these.
ArcGIS Pro & Adobe Illustrator | 2022 | Presented in NACIS Gallery
Don’t ask me why I use Mercator, sometimes I just like the angular preciseness - you can see I still have a lot of maps in other projections though.
Paint.NET | 2019
A project that I am really proud of, before I learned GIS and prevlanet GIS mapping.
Introduction to Cartography Assignments
ArcGIS Pro | 2020
Some of the first maps that I made in ArcGIS.
Paint.NET | 2019
This map only shows the center of Shanghai.
Hand | 2018-2019
I prefer to use colored pencils to draw because I can just gentily swipe the paper to get some good but light textures.
Hand | 2015
I used this map as an inspiration.
Hand-drawn Maps on Various Areas of the World
Hand | 2018
You can see my fetish to create an atlas.
Travel Maps on Various Areas of the World
ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator | 2023
I did a lot of research on many areas, e.g. Amazonia and Siberia, to draw these maps.
City Maps of the World
ArcGIS and Adobe Illustrator | 2025-2026
Just some simple and minimalist maps.
All maps are under CC-BY-NC licenses.