You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
Colorado Springs artist and arborist Reynold Mackey on his decade of hand-carving accurate physiographic globes out of solid wood, how to translate a 2D topobathymetric map onto a sphere, art as family business, casting globes in bronze, chainsaw-carving to Hendrix and dental pick-carving to Debussy, why hard work is an ally to meaning, learning welding, leatherwork and paper lacquering to make globe enclosures, the acrobatic stillness of trees, and how, unsurprisingly, he “could never take any shortcuts.” See his work at globesculptor.com and @globesculptor on IG Art Castings of Colorado Vincenzo Coronelli Manitou Art Center Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 10% off woven cotton map blankets with code 10OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Oregon lead cartographer and product manager Neil Allen talks atlas production with East View Geospatial's Benchmark Maps, the years of mapmaking and months of ground-truthing required to create a Texas atlas, adventures in custom cartography (clients include the U.S. Coast Guard, The Cascadia Institute and an eccentric millionaire's treasure hunt), the importance of asking the locals, using declassified naval data to map Monterey Canyon, and why sales and marketing is essential to a map business. See his work at benchmarkmaps.com East View Geospatial Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas Texas Road & Recreation Atlas Raven Maps Butler Maps North American Cartographic Information Society Chaney Swiney's NACIS talk on field checking Map for Forrest Fenn's Treasure Hunt Cascadia Bioregion map with David McCloskey Thad Lenker Port Angeles, WA Coast Guard Station map Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 10% off woven cotton map blankets with code 10OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Ontario explorer, mapmaker, and conservationist Hap Wilson on drawing 400 guide maps across 50 years, traveling more than 40,000 miles of Canadian wilderness by canoe, the one digital tool he likes (it's Google Earth), saving lives by creating a map that, unlike the one it replaced, did not send tourists over a waterfall, retracing thousand-year-old trails to prevent their effacement by dams and clearcuts, what you discover after 200 trips down the same river, learning from the mapmakers of 1700 and the indigenous of 700, and why if a portage on his map doesn't match the territory it's likely a force majeure situation (“I don't control the beavers.”) See his work at hapwilson.com Temagami Wilderness Guide Lake Superior To Manitoba By Canoe Stay at Hap's eco-lodge: Cabin Falls Original illustrations by Hap David Thompson Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven cotton map blankets with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors' problems, making it interesting for himself (“I'm known to make things more complicated than they might need to be”), spending eight years painting the Rockies' western slope, working from his own photographs, taking inspiration from the past, getting into the culture of what he's mapping, drawing coastlines, and some advice for developing artists: “Be a good draftsman.” See Erick's work at erickingraham.com Landscape paintings Children's books Maps Vermont's Kingdom Heritage Lands Winter 1888: Record Snowfall Where Do Forest Birds Go in Winter? Green Witnesses Western Watershed Map Dugald Stermer James Gurney John Singer Sargent Maxfield Parrish NC Wyeth Arthur Rackham Gustave Baumann Richard Estes Tom Blackwell Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the semiotic residues of humankind,” an invitation to map an Ivorian national park (and why you should wait for the dry season before attempting this), approaching six years of work on an NYC map, interpreting Michael Drayton's 17th c. topographical poem Poly-Olbion into a 6x5 ft. folkloric tour of England and Wales, walking the territory, the origins of “north up,” the souls of places, a half-day's research to place a single label, and his vision of Utopia. See his work at stephenwalter.org In-progress map of Manhattan London Subterranea, 2012 Nova Utopia, 2013 Albion, 2016 Brexitland, 2019 Map of Comoé (La carte de la Comoé), 2019 Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook Jerry Brotton Gerardus Mercator Jacopo de' Barbari's 1500 View of Venice Abrahram Ortelius's 1595 map of Utopia The 1648 Klencke Atlas of England (5x5 ft.!), presented by Joannes Klencke to Charles II on his 1660 restoration to the throne John Rocque's 1746 map of London Greenwood's 1830 map of London Egbert L. Viele's 1865 Manhattan map Bodleian Library map collection Paul Noble Layla Curtis Katie Patterson Alighiero Boetti Grayson Perry Ed Fairburn Ewan David Eason Emilio Isgò Justine Smith Paula Scher Other Fabrications Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown's pedestrian passages, a public debate with Massimo Vignelli (“His geography was egregious”), working at a very different MTA (they used to have an aesthetics committee?), the “no improvements” made to the subway map since he chaired the 1979 MTA map committee, guiding Yann Arthus-Bertrand's helicopter photo surveys of Manhattan, walking every block and learning Illustrator to create his acclaimed 176-page Manhattan tourist guide, how to make a usable bus map, New York's vanished map stores, and a longitudinal view of the business: “plus ça change, plus c'est la même bull████.” See his work at johntauranac.com Tauranac Maps Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas Bauhaus vs. Beaux-Arts Vignelli's 1972 NYC subway map Tauranac's 1979 NYC subway map The 2023 NYC subway map Nobu Siraisi John explains his subway map design choices Yann Arthus-Bertrand DeLorme Maps Alex McPhee's giant maps of Canada
In early 2023 GIS analyst and cartographer Andrew Middleton saw a tweet about Andy Nosal's search for someone to take over The Map Center, Nosal's map shop in Pawtucket, RI; six months later Middleton left California to move into one of the last map retail stores in the U.S. We discuss his goal of turning the shop into an inviting retail space and field trip destination, inciting new maps of New England with cartographic challenges, making space for local and expressive maps, and summing it all up with “This is a thing I get to do with my life; how amazing is that?” Bonus: former owner Andy Nosal joins us to drop pearls of retail wisdom and confirm that Andrew has the “irrational drive in the right direction” needed for this biz. Next time you're in Pawtucket drop by mapcenter.com @themapcenter on IG Anne Hall Antique Prints Muncie Map Company Schein & Schein The Map Shop City Maps coloring book by Gretchen Peterson Landforms of the United States by Erwin Raisz Maps by Great Swamp Press Lay O' The Land Rhode Island map by Legend Bicycles RI map embroidery kit by Savory Stitch All Mapped Out coasters All Over the Map by Betsy Mason & Greg Miller Hugg-A-Planet Globe Pillows Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Lyonnais illustrator and designer Lionel Portier on a mapmaking career that spans 30 years and five continents, accepting any map challenge an art director might conceive, a travel magazine gig that led to an Australian passport, painting 100 birds for a wetland park, his favorite territory to illustrate, spending three months on a 3x4-ft. map of Bruges, why he never carries a sketchbook on a walk, and conveying with his maps the “pleasure of seeing beautiful things.” See his work at lionelportier.com A Bird's Eye View of Bruges The Travels of Nicolas Baudin (the map that induced Lionel to move to Australia) France's "Iron Belt" of Vauban Forts Bird illustrations for the Hong Kong Wetland Park and Museum MC Escher's Day and Night Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Utah artist Isaac Dushku on how a map has to evoke either a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home, the best- and worst-selling states in his catalog (he drew all 50), taking his business Lord of Maps from being ghosted on Facebook Marketplace to supporting his family, creating a board book of America's highest peaks with a “ridiculously complicated” printing process, why your choice of labels will always upset someone, somewhere, and how if someone enjoys mountains these maps will “fit nicely into their heart.” See his work at lordofmaps.com Most popular state map: Oregon Japan map Coffee table book: compendium of 75+ maps The Highpoints: The Tallest Point in Each State board book IG: @lord_ofmaps Mediaeval Mapmaker Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with facades, the history of Rome's urban fabric, why master planning begins with the negative space, and how “you'd be hard-pressed to find an ugly city before 1930.” See his work at studioredcar.com His maps of St. Patrick's & St. Hedwig's Parishes, Via Belisarius Ettore Mazzola Douglas Duany John Decuir James Rouse The Disneyland pitch map The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI run by cartographer Andrew Middleton Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Francisco's LightHouse for the Blind, discusses the art of making fingertip-readable maps: why clutter is the enemy of good tactile maps, the quest for an affordable embosser, being locked to 24 pt. type, creating large-scale accessible maps for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the OSM-filtering behind their Tactile Maps Automated Production software, why 3D-printed maps are (literally) painful for users, the barriers to high-res tactile displays, and how a good tactile designer needs to “forget about their eyes.” Order a custom TMAP MAD Lab's braille maps Naomi's maps OpenStreetMap Joshua Miele Join the LightHouse mailing list for updates on their 5/16/2024 fundraising event Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
New Haven architectural designer and artist Matthew Dean Shaffer on balancing accuracy with art, taking a break from straight lines to draw birds, software-driven homogeneity in American architecture (“Straight-out-of-Revit, as we say”), why he draws the vegetation last, how anything's better for the urban fabric than a surface parking lot, and sacrificing for one's maps (he went cross-eyed for a day after a marathon drawing session). Hermann Bollmann Constantine Anderson Tadashi Ishihara Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925 Piranesi map of Rome Nolli map of Rome Akira Yamaguchi Tom Rook Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Arlington “reformed architect” and pictorial cartographer Jamshid Kooros discusses his 30 years of mapmaking based on photographs, sketching and “walking, walking, walking,” the end of the drop-in pitch, turning three-week hikes into maps of French cities and castles, doing his own paper engineering for a pop-up map of Washington D.C., spending nine months on his Santa Fe map (which irked some locals), and being warned away from Civil War battlefield maps (“The buffs know every rock and tree and they will find a mistake.”) See his work at koorosmaps.com/welcome.html Philadelphia Washington, D.C. Williamsburg Santa Fe I think this issue of GQ Japan includes his Paris map as an insert Jo Mora MacDonald “Max” Gill Jane Crosen (see ep. 15) Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Stafford cartographer and entrepreneur David Kulbeth on reviving old map aesthetics with his digital-to-copperplate-to-print-to-watercolor technique, the (costly) difference between copperplate etching and engraving, finding a custom papermaker, keeping his art affordable, finding style inspiration in 12 moving boxes of cartography books, and making high-craft maps of “modern places in an antique style.” See his work at columbuscartography.com North America: copperplate etching printed on custom-made cotton rag paper, finished with watercolors Caribbean Virginia Texas Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Fish Creek artist and gallery owner Sophie Parr on creating more than one hundred 0.5"-to-the-mile maps using aerial imagery and a 0.2mm-tip pen, why she only accepts 2x2" commissions (while working on her own 2x3 ft. map of Chicago), representing a variety of landscapes within the constraints of black ink, when returning a client's deposit feels so good, why she won't work in color, how discipline will get you farther than enthusiasm, curating other artists' work to exhibit in her Door County gallery, and how often she hears “I have never seen anyone do something like this.” See her work at mapsbysophie.com Sophie's Instagram Visit her gallery in Ellison Bay, WI Madison, WI: 22x33" (four hours of drawing per day for 35 days) Lower Manhattan Washington D.C. Thun, Switzerland Custom-maps-for-retailers wholesale program Ed Fairburn Cam Ojeda Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Sandpoint cartographer Lee France on making his first topos in Chile, spending months on a single map for National Geographic Trails Illustrated, the challenge of making an attractive interactive map that includes every scale from hilltop to hemisphere, how an up-to-date cadastral layer can make or break your hunting map, how his team of technical cartographers at OnX maintains three discrete map products, and the high-stoke activities his users get up to. See his work at leefrance.me OnX Maps Gaia GPS National Geographic Trails Illustrated MAPublisher Tom Patterson Sarah Bell's shaded relief tutorial Kate Leroux David Lambert NACIS Maputnik Full Stack Cartography: Stamen's Alan McConchie on the MapScaping podcast Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac” Gregor Turk on walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers' efforts to erase Blandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)” “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography Rubber maps Blandtown “Choke II” Peirce quincuncial projection, rendered in clay “Phalanx” Andrew Lynch's “Unbuilt Highways” maps The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark Lordy Rodriguez Maya Lin The Center for Land Use Interpretation You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Leesburg cartographer Tom Patterson on his decades creating visitor maps for the National Park Service (there's a good chance his work is crumpled in your glovebox), learning to draw terrain by corresponding with an artist in Scotland, why he doesn't lament the passing of 70s-era production techniques, how to map a piedmont glacier using satellite imagery, convincing the Park Service to give away their map files (then making it happen himself during a rained-out vacation), why he releases his designs into the public domain, how “pretty map” used to be an insult, preferring modern maps over antiques, and how “right now is the golden age of cartography.” See his work at shadedrelief.com Malaspina Glacier panorama NPS Grand Canyon panorama NPS Grand Canyon cartogram NPS map design files: find a park map, choose “Adobe print production ZIP file” Seafloor map of Hawaii Shaded Relief Archive, has a bunch of his pencil reliefs Swisstopo Natural Scene Designer MAPublisher Geographic Imager QGIS ArcMap Eduard Natural Earth Data Becca Holdeusen Alex Fries Daniel Huffman John Nelson Jake Coolidge Heinrich Berann Hal Shelton Tibor Toth Marie Tharp Mike Hall Jeff Clark Sarah Bell Anton Thomas Alex McPhee Nathaniel Kelso Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
St Leonards map producer/founder Melinda Clarke and Melbourne illustrator Deborah Young Monk discuss their collaborations across more than three decades, how to tell an artist they need to redraw three months of work, scouting territory by car, helicopter and hot air balloon, more than a week spent editing a 4x3 ft. map with a scalpel, selling maps door-to-door out of a suitcase, a very profitable shipping container full of puzzles, Melinda's break from the map business to run a fish farm, getting the next generation to make maps, and how “the beauty of the [1987 Melbourne map] project is we had no idea what we were doing.” See their maps at themelbournemap.com.au The Original Melbourne Map 1992 making-of TV segment Melbourne Map color print The Bellarine Map Portarlington Map Cooke & Calvert's 1880 map of Melbourne Lewis Brownlie Sean Rodwell Alex Pescud Adam Mattinson Anton Thomas Helen Potter & Mark Jackson Creffield Digital Print Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Lewes/Berlin graphic artist and “exuberant mapmaker” Neil Gower on painting an estate plan when the grounds are unfinished, the work that gives him a “hum in the pelvis,” what Frank Zappa has in common with high-effort fake maps, an abandoned 5x5 ft. map of Venice that was more enjoyable to ground-truth than to draw, combining lunar toponymy with 1600s Italian map style, a trip to Barcelona on Conde Nast's dime, and emphatically not illustrating his memoir about starting in a Welsh coal town and ending up in the chalk country of Lewes. See his work at neilgower.com Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons estate map for Raymond Blanc Prendi il Largo French cuisine map Raymond Briggs Cassandre Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
New York City cartographer and QueensLink chief design officer Andrew Lynch on using library archives, train-mounted GoPro footage and his own two feet to plot every track in the New York City subway system, a brush with cubicle-based urban planning at the Port Authority, testy-yet-productive correspondence with railfans, the unshakable authority conveyed by the Google Maps style, how your cartographic project should answer a question, and learning that the obstacle to building a subway extension is not money (“What's four billion dollars?”) but belief that it can be done. See his work at vanmaps.com and check out the subway extension project at thequeenslink.org New York City Track Map Download the full map About the map Boston MBTA Track Map Chicago Track Map Unbuilt Highways of NYC The QueensLink plan to add four new M stations to the abandoned Rockaway Beach elevated line; it will also create 33 acres of new parks along the right-of-way. Cameron Booth Jake Berman Massimo Vignelli Andrew Hagstrom Sanborn fire insurance maps Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
New Brunswick embroidery artist Danielle Currie discusses her fans among NASA's Ocean Processing Group, spending more than 400 hours to render an Icelandic river in straight stitches, her hoops being mistaken for paintings, how you really have to enjoy the colors of a piece you'll hold in your lap for months, pricing herself out of her own art, and not accepting commissions because “they'll get it when they're 80.” See her work at satellitestitches.com and instagram.com/satellite_stitches NASA Ocean Color Kate Tarling (see ep. 5) Jennye Stubblefield Clara Bowe Yasmin Louise Holder Victoria Rose Richards Andri Jonasson Abstract Aerial Art Printable dissolving embroidery substrate Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Toronto architect and artist Gabriel Camus discusses the 20" wide, 20 ft. long imagined cityscape he's been drawing since 2018, a 100 ft. (!) illustration he's never seen the whole of for want of space to roll it out, the modern city as utopia/dystopia, how saying you study architecture can deflect rude questions about your street photography, the pleasures and hassles of walking in anti-pedestrian zones, extending his own roadscapes off the edge of atlas pages, and quitting his job to begin a 3 month trans-Canadian road trip to finally see some “true wilderness.” See his work at instagram.com/gabrielcamus.art Maxwell Illustration Julien.skp Sanyadis Le piéton du grand Paris Infrastructure: a Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Königs Wusterhausen mapmaker Simon Polster discusses falling into his first topo mapping project after hitchhiking from Iran to Berlin, using Soviet topographic maps as a starting point to map Armenian hiking trails, donating data to OpenStreetMap, the eternal method of “play around with it ‘til it looks okay,” completing most of his map layouts in QGIS, spending hours in the map shop inspecting good topos, and turning order fulfillment into a geography lesson for his kid. See Simon's maps at https://cartisan.org Dilijan National Park Hiking Topo Map QGIS OpenStreetMap JOSM editor Geonames Swisstopo maps Ordnance Survey maps Daniel Huffman Anita Graser Andrew Tyrell Tom Patterson Sarah Bell Klas Karlsson Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
East Yorkshire artist-cartographer Kevin Sheehan discusses picking a fight with fellow history PhDs by drawing a 19x29” calfskin portolan chart of the Mediterranean, spending 2 months stippling the lunar surface with a dip pen, acquiring a novel accent after 20 years in England, heated conversations with flat earthers over his map of the moon, how to make your own 1400s-style transfer paper with candle soot, and how “there's something good about using, or at least trying, old ways of doing things.” See his work at https://www.manuscriptmaps.com The Moon Map Whisky Map of Scotland Gin Map of Great Britain & Ireland The Paris Map Kevin's calfskin portolan map The 1403 original by Franciscus Becharius Created for his doctoral thesis: The Functions of Portolan Maps: An evaluation of the utility of manuscript nautical cartography from the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries Pergamena Claire Fanjul Francesca Baerald Sara Farooqi Neil Gower Anton Thomas Rumsey map collection NACIS annual meeting Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Vancouver “accidental cartographer” Jeff Clark discusses his 100-layer 18-month project to map the Salish Sea bioregion, the importance of testing your waterproof trail map paper, getting a big boost from the local press, the eternal hassle of bathymetric data, consulting North America's best reference mapmakers, and when to call a map finished (never.) See his work at https://www.clarkgeomatics.ca/ Tom Patterson Dave Imus Bernhard Jenny Alex McPhee Eduard.earth Daniel Huffman NACIS meeting Shuttle Radar Topography Mission global elevation dataset Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, and “living in every inch of the maps” he draws. See his work at https://instagram.com/the_inland_sea 1:50k 1950s French topo example Add them to QGIS as a WMS layer Em Todos os Jardins, inspired by a Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poem Kishkindha Zelenskyy Comme Au Ciel Matthew 6:9 Christus statue Boire Gilles Baudry Mon Âme A-T-Elle Porque Portolan chart Mikael Asikainen Helen Cann Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free –https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Margaret River cartographer and surfer Grant Preller on catching waves down the Iberian coast in a 1980 VW bus, spending five years on foot marking promising breaks along 50 miles of Australian coastline, relating local history with maps, the plan to map ‘til “the end of [his] days,” and using Google Earth, 1890s coastline maps, 1:50k topos, the local library, an A0 sheet of paper, a pencil and CorelDraw to create an 8-foot map that shows you where to catch a sick barrel
Reno cartographer and outdoorsman Aaron Taveras on why he started making his own trail maps, “taking [his] sweet time” to create a hyper-detailed monochrome 4x5' map of Nevada landforms, beginning a map with the raster data, an inspiring backcountry ski atlas, teaching cartography by disassembling National Park maps, and the beauty of low-amenity public lands. See Aaron's maps at cartografix.co Kalmiopsis Wilderness trail map Grand Teton map “Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.” Taveras' 2012 Humboldt Bay map My 2014 Bay Area map My 2015 Kiribati map Taveras' 2016 Kiribati map Eduard shaded relief generator Avenza MAPublisher Avenza Geographic Imager Natural Scene Designer QGIS ESRI ArcGIS Pro U.S. Forest Service GIS data clearinghouse U.S. Geological Survey: The National Map National Land Cover Dataset National Park Service's Adobe Illustrator files Bernhard Jenny Alex McPhee (see ep. 6) Tom Patterson Eduard Imhof Mike Hall (see ep. 3) Joost Grootens Geodetic Institute of Slovenia Raven Maps & Images Helvetic Backcountry Atlas NACIS conference Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Redwood City cartographer and artist Jake Coolidge on making maps the hard way with ink, graphite, a metal scribe, copper, wax and ferric chloride, the difference between in silico and in vivo cartographic generalization, creating novel projections with two-point perspective, learning to letter backwards, training the eye before you train your mouse hand, how a mapmaking process will teach you something about the landscape, and his efforts to combine the handmade with the digital. See his work at jakecoolidgecartography.com 15x11” Mt. Rainier: intaglio print from a copper plate etching 55x13.5” California 32x17” Columbia River Watershed 60x15” Western Shore of Lake Michigan Speculative bay area transit map Oakland bike route map DeLorme road atlas Stanford Spatial History Project QGIS Richard Edes Harrison Erwin Raisz Print Zero Studios Nikki Jabbora-Barber Harry Beck's London Tube Map Eduard Imhof Daniel Huffman (taught me how to map
Olympia cartographer and graphics editor Daniel Coe on his journey from Alaska sea kayak guide to geomorphology storyteller, what you learn in an office (and family) full of geologists, getting laid off and traveling the world for a year, how the paths of ancient glaciers shaped his neighborhood, the hidden landscapes revealed by infrared laser pulses, and how a few minutes at work adjusting one color ramp seeded hundreds of beautiful river images. See his work at dancoecarto.com LIDAR visualizations of shifting streambeds Mount St. Helens—A Mountain Reborn How LIDAR works DOGAMI Washington Geological Survey 1:24k WA geology map by Coe Dee Molenaar Tau Rho Alpha National Natural Landmark Program Quick Terrain Modeler QGIS Heinrich Berann Marie Tharp Tom Patterson Maddy Grubb Marty Schnure Carl Churchill (see episode 12) ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop NACIS conference Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Nelson artist-cartographer Anton Thomas discusses his travels from Utah to the Himalayas, creating “that mix of serious cartography and serious art,” logging his drawing time with a stopwatch, collecting photo references for 1,500 species, how drawing the little cartouche map-within-a-map can get out of hand, and closing on three years of work to finish his 40x24" map of the world. See his work at antonthomasart.com North America: Portrait of a Continent Wild World Alex Hotchin (Hear her tale in episode one) Melinda Clark Kevin McManigal Tom Patterson Coastline paradox Heinrich Berann Bob Waldmire Miguel Covarrubias Jeff Murray NACIS conference Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Cupertino cartographer, designer and artist Nat Slaughter on using hardcore wildlife survey techniques to count squirrels with Jamie Allen, putting sound installations in shipping containers, the two years of shoe-leather data collection that went into his 5x2' Central Park map, his desire to walk from Basel to the North Sea, how a one-hour deadline can have (occasionally) sublime results, and an 800-year-old map that feels like it was created yesterday. See Nat's work at thesquirrelcensus.com Central Park map: terrestrial Central Park map: celestial Squirrel Census 2012 Squirrel Census 2016 Squirrel Census 2019 George Colbert and Guenther Vollath's map of Prospect Park Vaux & Olmstead's Central Park map Egbert Viele's Manhattan maps Otto Sibeth's Central Park map John Cage Iannis Xenakis Nat's made-in-45-minutes map Eleanor Lutz Yu Ji Tu: 1137 map of China Grilli Type Klim Type Peutinger Table: map of Roman roads from 1200 Nina Bender Catalogtree Rudolf Leuzinger Joost Grootens Irene Stracuzzi Anna van Westerstee Beek Charles Minard Eleanor Lutz Eduard Imhof Zürcher Verkehrsverbund transit maps AJ Ashton IGN Japanese Coast Guard Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Penobscot, Maine mapmaker Jane Crosen discusses her 40+ year cartographic career, the sound advice of “when in doubt, leave it out,” creating spoof maps for the nautical market, producing two expanded and rearranged editions of George Colby's 1881 atlases of Downeast Maine counties, becoming “[her] own typesetting machine” with a calligraphy pen, the feeling of looking through an airplane window at the landscape she's drawn so many times, and her “paste-up” map design process that involves a light table, a proportional scale wheel, a pica ruler, mylar, pencils, a 000 brush and india ink. You won't be surprised to learn this interview was conducted via landline. See Jane's work at mainemapmaker.com Penobscot Bay to Schoodic Pt. East Penobscot Bay Friendship to Vinalhaven Two-color posters Sea of Iniquity parody map Seal Harbor parody map Her updated re-issue of Colby's Atlas of Hancock County, Maine, 1881 Her map for Camden National Corporation Her cookbook A 3-color USGS topo: Ellsworth, ME Osher Map Library Maine Down East Ice Age Trail Map Augustus Phillips Margaret Pearce Michael Hermann Jamshid Kooros Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Madrid architect and mapmaker Jug Cerović discusses the transit cartographer's ability to shape reality, drawing hundreds of bus lines by hand, mapping first and visiting later, installing guerrilla maps in his hometown of Belgrade, organizing a new map conference, helping Apple create a good public transit layer, and how seeing Istakhri's 1,100-year-old maps will make one feel like a tyro. See his work at jugcerovic.com Madrid multimodal transit map Tokyo metro map London metro map Belgrade transit map Designboom article (which stirred up a lot of business) Transit Mapping Symposium DezignTechnic: the Dubai wayfinding company he works with Middle Constellation book One Metro World book Mark Ovenden's Transit Maps of the World Richard Archambault Sasha Trubetskoy Istakhri Piri Reis Padrón Real Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Somerset pen-and-ink artist Jeff Murray discusses sketching across the world during his ski bum years, selling his first print off a folding table in New Zealand, drawing in ten-hour chunks, the joy of selling art out of a gazebo, why he works at the continental scale, playing with perspective, his two hand-painted globes, and the choice words people have when his hyper-detailed maps don't include their particular landmark. See Jeff's work at jeffmurray.co.uk “The City of Europe” “London” “New York” “The Big Apple” “The City of North America” “The Eclectic Frontier” “A Greek Odyssey” Bellerby & Co Globemakers Carved Earth Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Union City cartographer and Wall Street Journal graphics editor Carl Churchill talks his map vocation and EDM avocation, spending two weeks on an elaborate wildflower-detection remote sensing script before an editor (correctly) tossed it, making fantasy maps with GIS tools, what drum loops taught him about radar interferometry, why "get paid to do what you love" will make you fall out of love, and how you can make beautiful maps with a good inspo board, a tolerance for academic papers and a willingness to try. See his maps at churchillgeo.com Glen Canyon Mœbius-palette map Ouray County Imhof-style map Eduard Imhof's maps Carl's tutorial on making your own Carl's tutorial on creating fantasy maps with real data QGIS RVT toolbox Profile curvature Californias wet year superbloom ICA Mountain Cartography Workshop Avenza MAPublisher ArcGIS Pro QGIS National Land Cover Database Charlie Loyd's remote sensing data compendium Cartographers he recommends: Aileen Buckley Josie Sajbel Clare Trainor Christina Shintani Emma Brown Becca Holdhusen Lauren Tierney Júlia Ledur Marie Patino Wanmei Liang Maddy Grubb John Nelson Cooper Thomas Tom Patterson Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Columbia designer, illustrator, artisan and country songwriter Elliot Park on his ten year quest to hydraulically press a good map into good materials. Discussed: the lack of texture in today's stuff, moving from DEM to CNC to a big beautiful copper/leather map, learning by (expensive) trial, the quest for a leather globe, and the challenge of creating lasting art that's meant to be touched. See his leather and copper maps at columbiapressworks.com 25x60" pressed leather elevation map of Tennessee 32x42" pressed copper map of NYC Columbia Machine Works: get your own 520-ton hydraulic press Bellerby & Co. hand-painted globes Carved Earth: hand-carved physiographic globes The Lord of Maps The Mediaeval Mapmaker My hand-lettered map of the Tongass National Forest Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Tacoma map artist and chorographer Kirsten Sparenborg discusses her huge body of work in ink and watercolor, her years in architectural illustration, an ill-starred mural commission, making her own pigments out of local rocks, and her next 10-panel 46 sq. ft. project. See her work at turnofthecenturies.com New Orleans watercolor block map 3x3 ft. Boston watercolor block map Ink street map of Baltimore Sottile & Sottile, where she made architectural drawings Sanborn Insurance Maps Ink bird's-eye map of Eastport, Maine Cheyenne Mallo's map ceramics Radiant Maps: my backlit ultra-detailed maps Artists she likes: Heather Bird Harris Marc Boyson Place Value Pottery The Lost Borough Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Lisbon transit cartographer and designer Aurélien Boyer-Moraes talks learning to use a computer at 19, creating his first 3x4 ft. transit map of an imagined Brazilian city after reading Jacques Bertin's Semiology of Graphics cover-to-cover, preempting Google Street View in Lyon with his 6x6 Seagull camera, ten years of designing transit maps for French cities with Attoma, and his heavily-annotated collection of 2,100 transit and city maps (which he might let you see someday.) See his maps at https://transit-map.com/Indented below are Aurélien's notes on my notes (he is, as you can imagine, a precise man). Transit maps originally designed by Aurélien Metz, and Aurélien's original design “The colors were imposed, there was no discussion, the use of these specific colors was mandatory because they were the new colors of the authority overseeing the transport in the agglomeration. They do not convey any specific information, which is against my general ‘credo', but we had to use them in the map.” Toulouse “My map had a strong palette which was consistent with the offer (the headways and the span of service) as you can see in the original from sept 2013, but it was scrapped in-house.” Dijon “A picture of a bus stop with the maps displayed (plan schématique général and the city center) and a pdf of an early version of the paper maps as they were issued in three different configurations: North, SE and SW (SO for sud-ouest), only the geographic map changed accordingly, the plan schématique remained the same, it was the reference. This initial configuration was irrelevant for a city of this size (250,000 inhabitants), then they reversed back to a single issue with, on one side the schéma + the center + information, and overleaf the geographic map.” Lyon, and Aurélien's original design Milan street map, completed in under two weeks Lisbon bus, tram and subway map Marseilles transit as of 1957 Vignelli's 1972 NYC subway map (cropped seven years later without his input, quelle horreur!) “I have a lot of respect for the early version of the map that the MTA committee led by Tauranac (with Michael Hertz as designer) released in 1979 (and was left almost untouched until the 1990s).One of the most relevant features of this map was the introduction of a very well thought out color code system by trunk in Mahanttan, which finally served also Vignelli since it makes his redesign of 2008 even more efficient! I am not a ‘blind pro-Vignelli, all against-1979 map.' It is way more subtle than that.Although the 1979 map evolved in such a wrong way since the mid-1990s, that today it is a spaghetti plate, and the redesign—first with the weekender and then with the opening of the first section of the 2nd subway line (after the demise of Vignelli)—by Cifuentes-Waterhouse in 2017 is more than ever powerfull thanks to the work of the 1979 committee.” Jarret Walker: a transit planning consultancy Sanborn insurance maps of Manhattan Two cartographers Aurélien would like to honor: “A Frenchman (for once) civil engineer from the prestigious École des ponts et chaussées, from the 19th century Charles-Joseph Minard (1781-1870) whose work is stilll pretty obscure to the general public, I learnt about him while reading The Visual Quantitative Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte, and you can easily find information about his impressive charts on the www.” “A Swiss designer (alive) who worked mostly in France, Rudi Meyer, he designed the 1976 splendid RER diagram and the French Railway system map that was on display from the late 1970s until 2011 in the trains. Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co
Philadelphia cartographer and New York Times graphics editor Bill Marsh describes his 30-year project to map his adopted city, his collection of hyper-dense axonometric maps, getting the Philadelphia Inquirer to chopper a photographer over the city for him, and the bygone days of hand-inked editorial maps (an early project: illustrating the nuclear annihilation of Grand Rapids, Michigan.) You can buy his magisterial map of Philadelphia for $7 from https://store.philamuseum.org/philadelphia-pictorial-map-and-walking-guide/ Pics of his 3x2ft absurdly detailed map of Philadelphia: every building facade, bus lines, restaurants, bathrooms, subways, the Rocky steps, it has it all Buy it now for only seven bucks Inspiration for his map: Constantine Anderson's map of Manhattan Hermann Bollmann's map of Manhattan Tadashi Ishihara's map of Manhattan His preferred printer: The Standard Group Transit maps by Jug Cerovic Larry Buchanan, who gifted me Bill's map and made this episode happen
Green Pond wildlife biologist and map designer for New World Cartography discusses working with artist Tony Waters, radio-tracking northern bobwhites (quail) under the pines of the Conecuh National Forest, memorializing Aldo the Llewellin Setter on a map of game birds, and agreeing to a 9x14-ft project before knowing exactly how to uh, install a 9x14-ft project (it turned out great). See Folk's maps at newworldcartography.com Oysters of North America map Upland Game Birds map The family business: Folk Land Management Port Royal Sound Foundation Maps by Union Army topographical engineer Robert Knox Sneden Books of maps curated from the Library of Congress by Vincent Virga Underwater feature toponymic authority: GEBCO-SCUFN Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Val Marie independent cartographer Alex McPhee describes learning to create enormous reference maps, his pre-mapping road trips, rural Saskatchewanians' surprise in finding every train station on his provincial map (they didn't believe him), how cartographers need to observe people interacting with their maps, and how nothing sells 3x5-ft maps like a radio interview. See his work at awmcphee.ca 3x6-ft Alberta map 3x6-ft Saskatchewan map Dave Imus' reference maps Jeff Clark's reference maps NACIS annual meeting Bob Waldmire's illustrated maps Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Bristol textile artist and mapmaker Kate Tarling talks freehand machine embroidering coastlines onto lampshades, her preference for silk paints (despite the hassle), color inspiration from her garden, and how she does most of her sketching in her head during dog walks. See her work at katetarlingtextiles.com Ekta Kaul Dissolving embroidery substrate: print/sketch a pattern on it, stick it to the fabric, sew through, it disappears when you add water Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Fremantle-based mapmaker, artist and illustrator Sara Drake on her first globe, her two-year wait list, the challenge of photographing her ultra-detailed 3D maps, and adding to a piece until “someone physically wrestles it out of [her] hands.” See her maps at saradrake.com India map Mexico map Her photographer Henry Whitehead Map artists she likes: Kate Tarling Linda Gass Bodys Isek Kingelez Michele Tranquillini Martin Haake Katherine Baxter Nate Padavick Anna Simmons Tania Willis Joyce Kozloff Helen Cann Janet Browne Chris Kenny Rodica Prato Bek Cruddace Libby Vanderploeg Rohan Chakravarty Sudarshan Shaw Ben Sack Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
British illustrator and cartographer Mike Hall talks early mapping projects of his native Harlow, his favorite map aesthetic, the relaxing practice of coastline-tracing and how he will place 1,500 labels but will not make a “Where's Wally?” map. See his work at thisismikehall.com An early hit: his walking map of Brockley, London Kew Gardens and Wakehurst maps Map of Europe (with a hand-traced coastline!) Rail map of England Eduard: give it a DEM, get a swiss-style "manual" shaded relief Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Oregon cartographic designer, illustrator and production artist Anna Eshelman talks sketching Mt. Rainier while pulling 26-mile days on the Wonderland Trail, why she starts her illustrations with a blunt pencil, and the enormous manual shaded relief she'd finish if she had any time. See her work at annaeshelman.com Garnet Point Trail Map Wonderland Trail at Night Tom Patterson's shaded relief site: he makes beautiful maps and releases them to the public domain Shaded Relief Archive Marty Schnure's ANWR panoramas Climate.gov (Anna makes a lot of the maps and charts here) Old Growth Forest Network Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
Australian cartographer and illustrator Alex Hotchin talks about her first map, cycling from Scotland to Cambodia sans GPS, and “a career drawing how beautiful the world can be.” See her work at alexhotchin.com Alex's first creative map: bottom of the page, “Jericho” Martijn Doolaard's Two Years on a Bike NACIS Atlas of Design Ed Fairburn's portraits in maps Sara Drake's handmade maps Need maps for your org's reports, decks, walls and events? The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast. See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: Radiant Maps. See the most beautiful backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF