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City maps for download
Much in demand, now available: City maps for download in various DIN formats from DIN A4 to A1. As soon as we receive your order, our designers get to work and send you the high-resolution image file of your individually designed city map within 12 hours of ordering. Ideal for printing at 300 DPI.



New city map style: Mondrian
Perhaps you've already seen the colorful new addition to our styles or maybe you've even already designed your favorite city in a new look. From now on there is a new exclusive art style that you will only find here:



Ravensburger my MAPuzzle with our map styles
At Ravensburger you can now create your own city map puzzle with our UrbanMapDesign map styles. Choose between 24, 100, 300, 500, 1,000 or 1,500 pieces and get a unique puzzle in proven Ravensburger quality.



Mark special places
You can now add your own markings to our maps. Mark special places with a symbol and make the map even more personal. Whether different hearts, smileys or even a rocket - simply enter the address and start marking.



6 creative ideas for attaching a poster to the wall
You want to show off your new city map to its best advantage. But you don't yet know how best to hang up your poster. Don't worry. On this page, we'll show you six ways to hang your poster, in many cases without drilling or damaging the wall.



Labels and borders
As of today, it is possible to make our maps even more varied. From now on, labels for streets and places can be printed to match the selected style. In addition, places or districts can be highlighted in freely selectable colors.



Wooden picture frames
You can now order the matching, custom-made wooden frames for many posters and canvases directly in the shopping cart. The city maps are then delivered to your home ready framed and can be hung up immediately.



Relaunch
Four years after the first launch, we have been able to bring ourselves to a general overhaul. New style line-up, even more detailed city maps, aluminum dibond as a new material plus a completely new online store. There's a lot to discover.



Your city in focus
Our design department has created a new style: "Fokus" highlights your city in a reserved yet powerful way. Designed in gray with red accents, it also impresses at second glance. Get your city in focus now!



Individual dog leads
Today we would like to introduce you to our partner project Pinalein.de. There you can get wonderful, handmade dog leashes and collars. Colors and materials can be freely combined. Have a look!



Two new styles on offer
We have come up with two new styles. Both are relatively simple, but still impressively showcase your favorite city. Be nice and give a warm welcome to copper-red and ocean-blue!



Texts in "Art Déco" style
Our city maps have always been elegant. But now there's a text style to match. Our new "Art Déco" style is a little playful, yet clearly structured.



New style - Roy Lichtenstein
"Art and commerce don't have to be mutually exclusive." As an online store, we can easily follow Roy Lichtenstein's view. 100% Roy Lichtenstein puts your city in the right light! Bold, gaudy, simply strong.



Gift vouchers are here
Especially those who want to give one of our city maps as a gift are not always 100% sure what the recipient will like best. Those days are over because from now on you can simply give away one of our vouchers. Great idea!



Bigger is better
If you've always wanted to give something really big as a gift, now's your chance: we've launched new sizes and now offer city maps up to 2 meters wide. So if you have a large wall to spare, you can get started right away.



Let's go Austria
Internationalization is a big deal for a small startup. For us too. We are now the first country after Germany to deliver our individual city maps to Austria. Vienna, Salzburg and Graz: let's get started!



Trusted Shops certification
Safety First: Today UrbanMapDesign passed the Trusted Shops certification and now bears the Trusted Shops seal of approval. This means assured quality, free buyer protection over 100 EUR and independent customer reviews.



New function: Map titles
Every doctor knows that there's nothing like a nice-sounding title. That's why our city maps can now be given meaningful titles. Whether it's a personal greeting, the name of the city or the longitude and latitude is entirely up to you.a>



City map for Crossfit Cologne
As of this week, one of our city maps is also hanging in the Crossfit Cologne training box. The gallery canvas in the special CrossFit style is 180x120cm in size and helps members and guests to keep an overview.



Upholster a world map chair
In one of her projects, Leonie from Shabby-It-Yourself.de has described in wonderful detail how you can restore and upholster an old chair yourself. She used a great vintage world map as the motif. To the instructions



Schoko strengthens the team
We have strengthened our team and received diligent support from UrbanMapDesign. Our new employee is now out and about in Cologne distributing our new flyers. If you see her: She goes by the name "Schoko\”