Hand-Drawn Maps
- Hand-Drawn Map Exhibit Opens Thursday in London
- A small exhibition of 11 hand-drawn maps of London (really, only 11?) at the Museum of London opens this Thursday. Done in partnership with Londonist, which has been soliciting such maps for some time, the free exhibition runs until…
- Stephen Walter
- I mentioned Stephen Walter’s detailed hand-drawn typographic maps of Liverpool (and London — which made the Magnificent Maps exhibit) all too briefly in this entry. Fortunately, the Guardian had a profile of him this week: apparently Berlin is his…
- Brian Nunnery’s Map Collection
- Brian Nunnery has been doodling maps of imaginary cities since he was in kindergarten. He’s amassed a collection of nearly 500 maps, and he’s been posting them to his website — 20 so far. The maps, says Brian, “evolve steadily…
- Londonist Still Wants Hand-Drawn Maps
- Londonist continues to look for hand-drawn maps; there will be an exhibition of them next April at the Museum of London. They’ve been steadily publishing submissions over the past year, and want more. Previously: Londonist Wants Hand-Drawn Maps….
- Hand-Drawn Map Exhibition in Philadelphia Area
- Another exhibition of hand-drawn maps is now under way in the Philadelphia area: Nowhere: Selections from the Files of the Hand Drawn Map Association runs until December 19, 2010 at Arcadia University’s art gallery. Curated by HDMA founder Kris…
- Review: From Here to There
- From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association by Kris Harzinski Princeton Architectural Press, 2010. Paperback, 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-56898-882-5 The Hand Drawn Map Association has come a long way since I first encountered it…
- Reuters on Hand-Drawn Maps
- This Reuters article on hand-drawn maps is already turning up in a number of newspapers and other media outlets. Broad in scope, it touches on two things of interest. First, the publication of the book of collected maps from…
- Hodder Wants Your Map ‘Doodles’
- Hodder Geography is running a map doodle competition: they want entrants to draw “your own map of your world, real or imagined,” scan it and send it in. Via Thierry Gregorius. Not the first hand-drawn map competition, not by a…
- Mapplers, an Online Atlas of Hand-Drawn Maps, Seeks Contributors
- Tara Pattenden writes, “I am working on a collaborative atlas made entirely of handdrawn maps. You can see the current results here: www.mapplers.org. I am looking for other people who are keen to be involved in this project. Either…
- Slate Receives Hand-Drawn Maps
- Julia reports back on the submissions she received after she asked readers to send in hand-drawn maps. “Slate readers sent in nearly 200 maps, and they ranged from hasty scribbles on scrap paper to elaborate, multicolored renderings. No matter what…
- A Book of Hand-Drawn Maps: From Here to There
- Cartophilia reports that the book of hand-drawn maps collected by the Hand Drawn Map Association (see previous entry) is coming out this fall: Princeton Architectural Press is publishing From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn…
- Slate Wants Hand-Drawn Maps
- Slate’s Julia Turner is the latest to put out a call for hand-drawn maps, in a post that is part of her series on signs: The maps we draw for one another also have a certain ephemeral beauty. Each map…
- Londonist Wants Hand-Drawn Maps
- Londonist is putting out a call for hand-drawn maps of London: “Draw a map of your local area, be it home or work, indicating all the corners, bars, parks, features and characters that are important to you. You can…
- Hand Drawn Map Association Book and Contest
- The Hand Drawn Map Association is (a) in conjunction with Princeton Architectural Press, publishing a collection of hand-drawn maps, and (b) is running a contest, in part to solicit submissions for said book. The contest runs until the end…
- Hand Drawn Map Association
- The Hand Drawn Map Association “is an ongoing archive of maps and other interesting diagrams created by hand. Whenever you draw a map explaining how to get somewhere or find a map or other hand drawn diagram laying around…
- Modern Cartographer, Hand-Drawn Maps
- KVOA, a Tucson, Arizona television station, has the story of a Flagstaff cartographer, Alex DiNatale, who has reverted to drawing maps by hand, in the style of late 19th-century surveyors’ maps: “This is like a lost art,” DiNatale said. “It’s…
- Hand-Drawn Maps
- This is fascinating: a collection of hand-drawn maps — the sort that people giving someone directions scribble down on a scrap of paper or napkin. i collect personal maps people draw. one’s memory and perception of a place is very…
