Playing with some negative-space text and different ways of using textures and patterns to communicate the purpose of areas.

Aside from showing that Southern California is one huge sprawling megacity, the main point I wanted to make here is very subtle:

Do you notice the San Andreas fault, running through the Transverse Ranges from the top left corner by the Tejon Pass down into the Salton Trough and then into the Salton Sea? Notice also that the fault cuts across all major highways into the Los Angeles basin and even the greater Southern California Bight — the Tejon, the Cajon, and the San Gorgonio passes (though it doesn’t cut the much smaller SR 101 coastal route until Northern California). The same is true for railroads.

Fingers crossed that the big one keeps waiting.