About
A workshop that makes terrain into objects
Redmark Studio is a small operation in Switzerland building relief maps from public elevation data. Everything here comes out of one set of tools, sharpened one place at a time.
Where this came from
It started as an attempt to answer a child’s question about where a river goes, and the honest answer turned out to be a shape that no ordinary map draws: the watershed, all the land whose rain collects into the same river. Once you have that shape you want to hold it. Once you can hold one, you want the one it fits inside.
Everything since has been the same loop — pick a region, find data honest enough to cut from, print it, find out what the object teaches that the map did not. The collection is currently 28 plates and 549 pieces, and it grows mostly because somebody asked for a specific place.
Two brands, one pipeline
The same terrain data makes two very different things, so they are sold as two very different things. redmark.art is framed relief maps in black and white: a wall object for adults, quiet and monochrome. redmark.world is this — colourful, made to be handled, and aimed at children, families and classrooms.
They share a workshop, a printer and a code base, and nothing else on purpose. A puzzle that a six-year-old takes apart on the floor and a framed piece that hangs in a hallway should not be pretending to be the same product.
What is actually promised
- The terrain is real. Elevation, water and snow all come from public datasets, and every puzzle page states the vertical exaggeration used so the relief cannot quietly mislead.
- The piece counts on this site are read from the same files the printer is handed, not typed in by hand. If a plate has 23 pieces, the printer cuts 23.
- Everything is made to order in Switzerland. Nothing sits in a warehouse, and a lost piece is a reprint rather than a dead set.
- The collection is what has been cut so far. Plates marked in development have finished, verified geometry but are not part of the regular run yet — they are listed as such rather than quietly offered.
What is not here yet
Photographs of the printed plates. The artwork on this site is generated from the print geometry, which is accurate but flat — it cannot show you the relief, which is the entire point of the object. That is the honest state of things and it is being fixed.
Ask about a place
The most interesting requests are the local ones — a valley, a catchment, a commune. They are also the easiest to say yes to.