Tag Archives: Maps

Mapping Our Emotions

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Brian D. Butler

Artist Ed Fairburn creates arresting portraits out of the hodge-podge of streets, roads, railways, topographical features and waterways on ordinary maps. His meticulously worked pencil and ink drawing are hauntingly emotional. Fairburn says, ” The work that I produce is … Continue reading →

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Axonometric and Not

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Brian D. Butler
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A Mapping Mania

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Brian D. Butler

Paula Scher has been creating remarkable, idiosyncratic, enormous, hand-painted typographic maps of the world for nearly two decades. She explores individual nations, cities, transit systems, continents and diverse cultural phenomena through her quirky, whimsical and even visionary one-of-a-kind giant maps. … Continue reading →

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