MapCarte 160/365: Air France by night and day in all the skies by Lucien...
Pictorial maps are often used in marketing and advertising. They have little function other than to encourage people to pause a while and explore…and possibly to then make some association with the...
View ArticleMapCarte 188/365: Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway by Dong Zheng, 2012
Strip-maps have often been used with great success to illustrate transport networks. They are well suited to linear paths. This example, drawn entirely by hand by Dong Sheng illustrates the roughly...
View ArticleMapCarte 260/365: Baseball Stadiums ArtMap by World Impressions, 1987
Pictorial maps are often some of the most artistic, combining illustrations of a theme to create a dramatic, attractive poster. They are commonly used to build a picture of a phenomena that perhaps...
View ArticleMapCarte 266/365: Wonder map of Melbourne by John Power Studios, 1934
In 1914 Macdonald Gill drew his Wonderground map of London (featured in MapCarte 15). It brought a cartoonesque aesthetic to the streets of London and included pictorial elements and other delightful...
View ArticleMapCarte 271/365: Japan, the target: a pictorial Jap-map by Ernest Dudley...
Pictorial maps often allow a certain degree of artistic license and can be extremely effective instruments of propaganda. This wonderful map from World War II by Ernest Chase uses colour and symbology...
View ArticleMapCarte 306/365: The Story Map of Scotland by Colortext Publications, 1935
There’s a saying about things that are old become new again and we see plenty of that in cartography. In fact, many cartographic techniques seem to come in and out of fashion regularly as new...
View ArticleMapCarte 310/365: Mappa by Alighiero Boetti, 1971-1994
Many artists work with maps. Indeed, we’ve focused on two exponents of the art world who have very successfully worked with map imagery as part of their work in Jasper Johns (MapCarte 3/365) and Andy...
View ArticleMapCarte 346/365: Bird’s eye view of South Africa by G. W. Bacon, ca 1890
Bird’s eye views fascinate us because they give us a panoramic, perspective view of a landscape as if we were seeing it with our own eyes. Typically, such views are of cityscapes or relatively small...
View ArticleMapCarte 358/365: Cairo to Khartoum by The Graphic, 1884
Selection and omission is a key cartographic requirement. We make many decisions about the content of the map. One of the more dramatic consequences of this process is omission of all but a single...
View ArticleMapCarte 370/365: A world of lotus, a world of harmony by Liao Zhi Yuan, 2015
Cartography has always been, in part, an artistic pursuit and in a world where many more maps are now made digitally we see a lot of bland cartography in design terms. Still, hand drawn maps inspire...
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