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Category Archives: Maps
Yale Finally Opens Up
Yale University has just opened up its museum archives to the public providing limited free online access to images from its vast cultural collections. Currently, they’ve offered access to 250,000 images at their new online catalog, with the goal of … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Books, Libraries, Maps, Museums, Photography, USA, Writing
Tagged Beinecke Library, Kipling, Mozart, Peabody Museum, Van Gogh, Yale
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Mapping Cities – by nose
Artist Sissel Tolaas is half-Icelandic, half-Norwegian and lives in Berlin. Her artwork explores the sense of smell by examining how people detect and describe odors. She’s particularly interested in how smell impacts the experience of the world around us. Her … Continue reading
Taking Liberties with Maps
Artist/designer Lena Corwin began illustrating maps for Elle Decor magazine in 2004. Her new book, MAPS: Illustrating Cities (Other Books, April 2011), is a charming collection of forty of her favorite maps. Corwin’s whimsical maps are a clever mix of … Continue reading
Mapping London Underground
Hat tip to Evan Smythe for this post:
Sunday, Why So Random (again)
Posted in Art, Asia, Europe, Libraries, Maps, Photography, Uncategorized
Tagged India, Japan, Netherlands
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…Maps and Letterpress too…
“Chartis Graphein” typographic world map by Nancy McCabe of designahoy in Chicago.
Typography for Travelers
Axis Maps has announced the release of their mapping/art project “Typographic Maps”. These unique maps use nothing but type to depict roads, highways, neighborhoods, parks and physical features of cities like Boston, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. They manually weave … Continue reading
Old Dutch (map) Porn
The 17th century Dutch cartographer Frederik de Wit created the extraordinary Stedenboek or Book of Cities. With only four copies of the book known to exist, the National Library of the Netherlands has digitized and uploaded two excellent versions to … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History, Libraries, Maps
Tagged Amsterdam, Liege, Netherlands, Utrecht
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Mapa de Mundo (del Facebook)
An imaginative Facebook worker, Paul Butler (no relation) has created an astounding world map based on a visualization of Facebook “friendships”. Butler defined weights for every pair of cities as the function of Euclidean distance between them and the number … Continue reading
Travel Between The Pages 