Category Archives: Maps

What Do Maps Tell Us ?

Posted on October 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

These extraordinary maps are created by a brilliant group of map geeks at the University of Sheffield with help from computer wiz Mark Newman from the University of Michigan. The collection of 700 world maps uses equal area cartograms, where … Continue reading →

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More Creative Cartography

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Thanks to David McCandless from Information is Beautiful.

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The World According To San Francisco

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Thanks to Generic for this post.

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Map Works

Posted on October 11, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Thanks to reader Jeff Hill for this post. New York City born, Dallas-based artist Matthew Cusick creates these ethereal images using maps, atlas pages, books, acrylics, coffee, wood and aluminum.

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Is This How We Really See The World ?

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The daring, imaginative Bulgarian artist/graphic designer/illustrator Yanko Tsvetkov has created a terrific website to showcase his hilarious, but biting, Mapping Stereotypes.

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From Here to There

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The Hand Drawn Map Association is an ongoing website project to archive user submitted hand-drawn maps and other interesting diagrams. The association was created by Philadelphia based artist Kris Harzinski who has collected his favorite maps from the collection to … Continue reading →

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Attention Map Geeks

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

The amazing new exhibition, Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific at the Main Gallery of the Firestone Library, Princeton University runs until January 2, 2011 The fascinating exhibition documents the drama of the unfolding European exploration of the Pacific … Continue reading →

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Maps A la Carte

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

I was pleased to see a brief story about travel friend Andrew Owen’s A la Carte Maps project on the New York Times Intransit Blog and in Sunday’s NY Times travel section. Although they only cover ten cities, A la … Continue reading →

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Real Locations – Imaginary Crimes

Posted on August 29, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

  Whether it be the London of Sherlock Holmes or the Ystad of the Swedish Wallander, Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco or Donna Leon’s Venice, the settings chosen by crime fiction authors have helped those writers to bring their fictional investigators … Continue reading →

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Gotta Love Strange Maps !

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Frank Jacobs has been curating and writing the Strange Maps blog since 2006 and has recently joined the culturally minded Big Think collective. You can also find a terrific selection of Frank’s bizarre and brilliant work in the Strange Map … Continue reading →

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