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Very Expensive Maps Very Expensive Maps
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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
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Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”
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
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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
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Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”
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
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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 -
John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”
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 -
Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.”
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 -
Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.”
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 -
Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.”
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