Very Expensive Maps

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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Stafford cartographer and entrepreneur David Kulbeth on reviving old map aesthetics with his digital-to-copperplate-to-print-to-watercolor technique, the (costly) difference between copperplate etching and engraving, finding a custom papermaker, keeping his art affordable, finding style inspiration in 12 moving boxes of cartography books, and making high-craft maps of “modern places in an antique style.” See his work at columbuscartography.com

• North America: copperplate etching printed on custom-made cotton rag paper, finished with watercolors
• Caribbean
• Virginia
• Texas

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Fish Creek artist and gallery owner Sophie Parr on creating more than one hundred 0.5"-to-the-mile maps using aerial imagery and a 0.2mm-tip pen, why she only accepts 2x2" commissions (while working on her own 2x3 ft. map of Chicago), representing a variety of landscapes within the constraints of black ink, when returning a client’s deposit feels so good, why she won’t work in color, how discipline will get you farther than enthusiasm, curating other artists’ work to exhibit in her Door County gallery, and how often she hears “I have never seen anyone do something like this.” See her work at mapsbysophie.com

• Sophie’s Instagram
• Visit her gallery in Ellison Bay, WI
• Madison, WI: 22x33" (four hours of drawing per day for 35 days)
• Lower Manhattan
• Washington D.C.
• Thun, Switzerland
• Custom-maps-for-retailers wholesale program
• Ed Fairburn
• Cam Ojeda

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Sandpoint cartographer Lee France on making his first topos in Chile, spending months on a single map for National Geographic Trails Illustrated, the challenge of making an attractive interactive map that includes every scale from hilltop to hemisphere, how an up-to-date cadastral layer can make or break your hunting map, how his team of technical cartographers at OnX maintains three discrete map products, and the high-stoke activities his users get up to. See his work at leefrance.me

• OnX Maps
• Gaia GPS
• National Geographic Trails Illustrated
• MAPublisher
• Tom Patterson
• Sarah Bell’s shaded relief tutorial
• Kate LeRoux
• David Lambert
• NACIS
• Maputnik
• Full Stack Cartography: Stamen’s Alan McConchie on the MapScaping podcast

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Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac”Gregor Turkon walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers’ efforts to eraseBlandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com

• “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles
• “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border
• “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)”
• “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography
• Rubber maps
• Blandtown
• “Choke II”
• Peirce quincuncial projection,rendered in clay
• “Phalanx”
• Andrew Lynch’s “Unbuilt Highways” maps
• The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll'sThe Hunting of the Snark
• Lordy Rodriguez
• Maya Lin
• The Center for Land Use Interpretation
• You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
• The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography
• Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
• The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

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Leesburg cartographer Tom Patterson on his decades creating visitor maps for the National Park Service (there’s a good chance his work is crumpled in your glovebox), learning to draw terrain by corresponding with an artist in Scotland, why he doesn’t lament the passing of 70s-era production techniques, how to map a piedmont glacier using satellite imagery, convincing the Park Service to give away their map files (then making it happen himself during a rained-out vacation), why he releases his designs into the public domain, how “pretty map” used to be an insult, preferring modern maps over antiques, and how “right now is the golden age of cartography.” See his work at shadedrelief.com

• Malaspina Glacier panorama
• NPS Grand Canyon panorama
• NPS Grand Canyon cartogram
• NPS map design files: find a park map, choose “Adobe print production ZIP file”
• Seafloor map of Hawaii
• Shaded Relief Archive, has a bunch of his pencil reliefs
• Swisstopo
• Natural Scene Designer
• MAPublisher
• Geographic Imager
• QGIS
• ArcMap
• Eduard
• Natural Earth Data
• Becca Holdeusen
• Alex Fries
• Daniel Huffman
• John Nelson
• Jake Coolidge
• Heinrich Berann
• Hal Shelton
• Tibor Toth
• Marie Tharp
• Mike Hall
• Jeff Clark
• Sarah Bell
• Anton Thomas
• Alex McPhee
• Nathaniel Kelso

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St Leonards map producer/founder Melinda Clarke and Melbourne illustrator Deborah Young Monk discuss their collaborations across more than three decades, how to tell an artist they need to redraw three months of work, scouting territory by car, helicopter and hot air balloon, more than a week spent editing a 4x3 ft. map with a scalpel, selling maps door-to-door out of a suitcase, a very profitable shipping container full of puzzles, Melinda’s break from the map business to run a fish farm, getting the next generation to make maps, and how “the beauty of the [1987 Melbourne map] project is we had no idea what we were doing.” See their maps at hemelbournemap.com.au

• The Original Melbourne Map
• 1992 making-of TV segment
• Melbourne Map color print
• The Bellarine Map
• Portarlington Map
• Cooke & Calvert’s 1880 map of Melbourne
• Lewis Brownlie
• Sean Rodwell
• Alex Pescud
• Adam Mattinson
• Anton Thomas
• Helen Potter & Mark Jackson
• Creffield Digital Print

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Lewes/Berlin graphic artist and “exuberant mapmaker” Neil Gower on painting an estate plan when the grounds are unfinished, the work that gives him a “hum in the pelvis,” what Frank Zappa has in common with high-effort fake maps, an abandoned 5x5 ft. map of Venice that was more enjoyable to ground-truth than to draw, combining lunar toponymy with 1600s Italian map style, a trip to Barcelona on Conde Nast’s dime, and emphatically not illustrating his memoir about starting in a Welsh coal town and ending up in the chalk country of Lewes. See his work at neilgower.com

• Le Manoir Aux Quat’ Saisons estate map for Raymond Blanc
• Prendi il Largo
• French cuisine map
• Raymond Briggs
• Cassandre

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New York City cartographer and QueensLink chief design officer Andrew Lynch on using library archives, train-mounted GoPro footage and his own two feet to plot every track in the New York City subway system, a brush with cubicle-based urban planning at the Port Authority, testy-yet-productive correspondence with railfans, the unshakable authority conveyed by the Google Maps style, how your cartographic project should answer a question, and learning that the obstacle to building a subway extension is not money (“What’s four billion dollars?”) but belief that it can be done. See his work at vanmaps.com and check out the subway extension project at thequeenslink.org

• New York City Track Map
• Download the full map
• About the map
• Boston MBTA Track Map
• Chicago Track Map
• Unbuilt Highways of NYC
• The QueensLink plan to add four new M stations to the abandoned Rockaway Beach elevated line; it will also create 33 acres of new parks along the right-of-way.
• Cameron Booth
• Jake Berman
• Massimo Vignelli
• Andrew Hagstrom
• Sanborn fire insurance maps

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New Brunswick embroidery artist Danielle Currie discusses her fans among NASA’s Ocean Processing Group, spending more than 400 hours to render an Icelandic river in straight stitches, her hoops being mistaken for paintings, how you really have to enjoy the colors of a piece you’ll hold in your lap for months, pricing herself out of her own art, and not accepting commissions because “they’ll get it when they’re 80.” See her work at satellitestitches.com and instagram.com/satellite_stitches

• NASA Ocean Color
• Kate Tarling (see ep. 5)
• Jennye Stubblefield
• Clara Bowe
• Yasmin Louise Holder
• Victoria Rose Richards
• Andri Jonasson
• Abstract Aerial Art
• Printable dissolving embroidery substrate

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