Following my interest in verbal and visual languages and their impact on culture and societies, I studied and worked in collaboration with Associate Professor Michael Schreffler to develop maps for his up-coming book on the Inca Empire. There is no know written language for the Inca Empire, however, through the development of complex visual patterns found in textile design, architecture, and metal works from the Inca scholars have found a highly developed visual language. Under Professor Schreffler’s guidance I was able to study this language and wrote a visual essay on the way that the Inca Empire “branded” itself. Download and read the essay.