Cover, Making Maps, 2nd edition (Amazon | Guilford) Krygier and Wood’s book should be used by anyone interested in the way the world looks, the way the world works, or the way the world should be. It remains the most accessible yet comprehensive guide of its kind. The second edition meets the needs and expectations of [...]
Archive for the ‘Map Books’ Category
2nd Edition | Making Maps | Early 2011
Posted in Making Maps Book News, Map Books, Maps Made, tagged Cartography, Denis Wood, Geographic Information Systems, GIS, Graphic Design, John Krygier, Making Maps, Making Maps - book - second edition, Map Design, Map texts, Visualization on December 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
A Discourse on Map Pins and Pinnage
Posted in 09 Map Symbolization, Cartominutiae, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartopinography, Google Maps Map Pins, Map Pinnage, Map Pins, Map Pins - Art, Map Pins - History on September 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Pin maps have not much been much used in the past, chiefly because a map pin which would give satisfactory service has not been available for common use. Until recently the map markers obtainable have been little more than old-fashioned carpet tacks having chisel-shaped points which cut the surface of any map into which they [...]
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 . [...]
“There were no maps before 1500″ | Denis Wood | New Book | Rethinking the Power of Maps
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map History, tagged Cartography, Critical Cartography, Denis Wood, maps, maps - theory, The Power of Maps on August 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Denis Wood’s followup to his classic The Power of Maps (1992) is almost entirely new in content. I have included the book’s table of contents below. A PDF copy of chapter 1 is included. This chapter argues, provocatively, “there were no maps before 1500″ – a serious challenge to our assumptions about the map as [...]
Rethinking Maps
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, 09 Map Symbolization, 13 Multimedia Mapping, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, Map Cartoons, Map Police, tagged cartography - books, cartography - propositions, cartography - theory, comics - cartography - theory, comics - maps - theory, critical cartography - books, critical cartography - theory, maps - as propositions, maps - books, maps - theory on August 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about Rethinking Maps, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Routledge 2009), sez: Maps are changing. They have become important and fashionable once more. Rethinking Maps brings together leading researchers to explore how maps are being [...]
Making Advocacy & Humanitarian Maps [updated]
Posted in 01 What's A Map?, 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 04 Map-Making Tools, Advocacy Maps, Deep Map Thoughts, Map Books, tagged Activism maps, Advocacy Maps, Cartographic Design, Counter Cartography, Counter Mapping, Humanitarian Maps, Map Design, maps as arguments on June 6, 2009 | 8 Comments »
When Bill Bunge mapped out the locations of car/pedestrian collisions in Detroit (Detroit Geographical Expedition, 1968) he and the map were advocating a way of thinking about what was happening to the black community in Detroit – and advocating for change. All maps advocate. To advocate means to “to speak or write in favor of; [...]
Mapping with Isotype
Posted in 02 Why Are You Making Your Map?, 06 Map Layout, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 11 Color on Maps, Map Books, Map History on February 17, 2009 | 15 Comments »
I was moving some piles of junk in a storage room and came across a 1934 U.S. Public Works Administration book on Mississippi Valley public works projects (Report of the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public Works Administration, October 1, 1934). The book is full of maps and other information graphics influenced by Otto Neurath, [...]
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 [...]
How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps?
Posted in 06 Map Layout, 07 Hierarchies, 08 Generalization & Classification, 09 Map Symbolization, 10 Type on Maps, 12 Finishing Your Map, Map Books on August 16, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (which encompasses cartography). I know some cartography courses use the book as a text. I recall being inspired by the book as a neophyte cartographer [...]