The Lincoln Memorial is a recognizable landmark for Americans and it has made it a popular maze on the website. I wondered how much I could improve it by applying some new techniques I have learned. Let’s see how I did. Here is my original post for the maze:

Maze of the Week #27 Lincoln Memorial Maze

Here are the enhancements I made to improve the maze:

1. New Start/Goal. Removed the arrows and replaced them with written out Start and Goal.

2. New Page Size. Reduced the height of the page from 34 inches to 21 inches.

3. Added a Sky. Light blue. With changes #6/7 below this took the maze from floating on a white page to anchored into the page.

4. Title Changes. Reduced the font size of the city. Moved the branding and titles from the bottom to the top corners.

5. Added Shrubbery and Lawn. With texture on sides of the Memorial and in front of the wall.

6. Reoriented the Maze. I moved the maze to the bottom of the page and…

7. Added more Foreground. I added more steps and walls in the foreground to fill the space on the bottom of the page (with no maze changes).

Let’s see the before and after:

Nothing major, but an improvement. I considered adding shadows and still might in the future, but understand that it is a huge undertaking for this building ! So many nooks and crannies and shapes to consider !

Some data: The new file is 4490MB from 614MB.

I will be adding the new version of the maze as an option going forward. You can find the maze download in my past maze collection section of the site.

If you like this type of content check out all of my case studies:

A Collection of Maze Design Case Studies to Improve your Mazes

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Happy maze-ing !