Category Archives: Maps

Typography for Travelers

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Old Dutch (map) Porn

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Mapa de Mundo (del Facebook)

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

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 →

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Mapping NYC

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Brian D. Butler

Maps © Ursula Hitz

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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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