Very Expensive Maps

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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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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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

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

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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

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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

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Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering them in watercolors, why theme parks reflect a yearning for human-scale towns, redesigning part of his high school campus before graduation, why you can thank Le Corbusier for hideous Revit-default cities, the axonometric map that sold Disneyland, storytelling with facades, the history of Rome’s urban fabric, why master planning begins with the negative space, and how “you'd be hard-pressed to find an ugly city before 1930.” See his work at studioredcar.com

• His maps of St. Patrick’s & St. Hedwig’s Parishes, Via Belisarius
• Ettore Mazzola
• Douglas Duany
• John Decuir
• James Rouse
• The Disneyland pitch map
• The Map Center in Pawtucket, RI run by cartographer Andrew Middleton

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Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Francisco’s LightHouse for the Blind, discusses the art of making fingertip-readable maps: why clutter is the enemy of good tactile maps, the quest for an affordable embosser, being locked to 24 pt. type, creating large-scale accessible maps for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the OSM-filtering behind their Tactile Maps Automated Production software, why 3D-printed maps are (literally) painful for users, the barriers to high-res tactile displays, and how a good tactile designer needs to “forget about their eyes.”

• Order a custom TMAP
• MAD Lab’s braille maps
• Naomi’s maps
• OpenStreetMap
• Joshua Miele
• Join the LightHouse mailing list for updates on their 5/16/2024 fundraising event

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New Haven architectural designer and artist Matthew Dean Shaffer on balancing accuracy with art, taking a break from straight lines to draw birds, software-driven homogeneity in American architecture (“Straight-out-of-Revit, as we say”), why he draws the vegetation last, how anything’s better for the urban fabric than a surface parking lot, and sacrificing for one’s maps (he went cross-eyed for a day after a marathon drawing session).

• Hermann Bollmann
• Constantine Anderson
• Tadashi Ishihara
• Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925
• Piranesi map of Rome
• Nolli map of Rome
• Akira Yamaguchi
• Tom Rook

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Arlington “reformed architect” and pictorial cartographer Jamshid Kooros discusses his 30 years of mapmaking based on photographs, sketching and “walking, walking, walking,” the end of the drop-in pitch, turning three-week hikes into maps of French cities and castles, doing his own paper engineering for a pop-up map of Washington D.C., spending nine months on his Santa Fe map (which irked some locals), and being warned away from Civil War battlefield maps (“The buffs know every rock and tree and they will find a mistake.”) See his work at koorosmaps.com/welcome.html

• Philadelphia
• Washington, D.C.
• Williamsburg
• Santa Fe
• I think this issue of GQ Japan includes his Paris map as an insert
• Jo Mora
• MacDonald “Max” Gill
• Jane Crosen (see ep. 15)

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