Eduardo Abaroa Proposal: We Just Need a Larger World, 2008 (detail) Construction wire, papier maché, world map cutouts and steel pins, 130cm x 130cm x 130cm Courtesy of the Artist and kurimanzutto gallery, Mexico City From the Uneven Geographies Show at Nottingham Contemporary. ••••••• Denis Wood’s 2010 book Rethinking the Power of Maps includes a [...]
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Map Art Exhibitions, 2010-11
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, tagged Cartography - art, Maps - art on December 5, 2011 | 3 Comments »
More Old School Cartograms, 1921-1938
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged cartograms, Cartograms - history, Distorted Maps on November 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cartogram, 1930: “A Distorted Map of the United States Showing Population of Each State and of Cities of 50,000 or More in 1930″ (Printers’ Ink Publishing Co., Inc., Chart by Walter P. Burns and Associates, Inc., New York City) A cartogram scales geographic areas to some value other than geographic area. In two previous blog [...]
Out Now | Denis Wood | Everything Sings
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged Atlas, Cartography, Critical Cartography, Denis Wood, Making Maps, maps, Participatory Mapping, Raleigh NC on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Denis Wood’s Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Now shipping from Siglio Press Use discount code PUMPKIN for 20% off until November 12, 2010 Three maps from Everything Sings are below Sidewalk Graffiti | Wind Chimes | Radio Waves ••••• Sidewalk Graffiti (detail) Scratched, scrawled, or stamped into drying concrete—mostly from the 60s into the [...]
New Atlas | Denis Wood | Everything Sings
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 04 Map-Making Tools, 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged Art and maps, Atlas, Community Mapping, Counter Mapping, Critical Cartography, Denis Wood, Participatory Mapping, psychogeography on September 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
••••• That a cartographer could set out on a mission that’s so emotional, so personal, so idiosyncratic, was news to me. —Ira Glass, host of This American Life ••••• Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood with an introduction by Ira Glass. Pub date: Nov. 12. $28 . Paper . [...]
1923 Patented Cartogram
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged Cartograms - history, History of Cartography, Map Design, Maps - patents, statistical maps, thematic maps on July 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Stop making cartograms! At least until permission is granted from the chap who holds the patent on them. Karl Karsten’s “population projection” was published in his book Charts and Graphs (1923) and patented in 1925. As with the 1911 “Apportioinment Map” noted in an earlier post, the term “cartogram” was not used by Karsten to [...]
Making Psychogeography Maps
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, Deep Map Thoughts, Maps Made, unMaking Maps, tagged Maps - Grades 6-8, Maps - Weird, psychogeography, Psychogeography - Grades 6-8, Psychogeography - Lesson Plans, Psychogeography Maps, Sensory Mapping on June 22, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Guide Psychogéographique de OWU (2009, med res jpg) ••••• During the week of June 15-19 (2009) five intrepid Ohio students and myself engaged in improvisational psychogeography, culminating in the map opening this post. A printable 11″ x 17″ (300dpi 1.4mb) PDF of the map is here. ••• Map detail: The path taken through campus followed [...]
A Map of Beerdom – New York, 11th Ward, 1885
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Map History, tagged Advocacy Maps, Beer Maps, German Ethnic Maps, History of Cartography, statistical maps, Temperance Maps, thematic maps on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“In the morning they come out with queer-looking eyes…” The above map represents one ward of New York City – the Eleventh. The saloons as put upon this map were ascertained by the reporter of the Christian Union by actual count. The saloons are largely beer saloons: for the base of the population is German, [...]
New Book: The Natures of Maps by Wood & Fels
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartographic Design, Cartographic Theory, Cartography & Nature, Critical Theory, Geography Theory, Map Design, Map Theory, Maps & Nature, Propositional Logic on December 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Denis Wood & John Fels’ new book The Natures of Maps is available now from the University of Chicago Press and many other sources. The lowest price I can find at this time is $29 (at Buy.com). Denis is, of course, co-author of the Making Maps book. The book is big – almost a foot [...]
Mapping the Failure of the Iraq “Surge”
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 03 Mappable Data, Advocacy Maps, tagged Counter Mapping, Iraq Surge, Night-time Light Maps, Propositional Maps, Protest Mapping, Satellite Imagery on September 30, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Making maps to counter prevailing assumptions and beliefs is a well established tradition. Counter mapping, radical mapping, protest mapping … the map proposes an alternative. Bolstered by its authoritative aura, the map can be quite convincing. Geographers John Agnew, Thomas Gillespie, and Jorge Gonzalez, with Political Scientist Brian Min (all of UCLA) propose an alternative [...]
Map Symbols: Landforms & Terrain
Posted in 03 Mappable Data, 09 Map Symbolization, Map History, tagged maps, map symbols, Map Design, Cartography, Cartographic Design, landform maps, terrain maps, scenery on maps on April 3, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Erwin Raisz is among the most creative cartographers of the 20th century, known in particular for his maps of landforms. In 1931 Raisz outlined and illustrated the methods behind his landform maps, in an article in the Geographical Review (Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1931). Excerpts from the text and graphics in the article are [...]
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