MapCarte 70/365: Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition by Gordon Home, 1911
The vast emptiness of Antarctica has long described as one of the last places on earth to be mapped. The maps produced around the time of the expeditions of Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen illustrated...
View ArticleMapCarte 95/365: Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells by Alfred Wainwright,...
This MapCarte entry is more concerned with the illustrations and maps that Alfred Wainwright produced for his 59 walking guides and publications than specifically the Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland...
View ArticleMapCarte 167/365: Dry well-bores by Torgeir Husevaag, 2005
Most maps are designed to show something that people want to know. Some are designed to show people what they might prefer not to know. This isn’t necessarily negative cartography but it’s often an...
View ArticleMapCarte 168/365: Deutschlandkarte by Matthias Stolz, 2009 & 2012
The production of maps in weekly publications and academic journals has been a mainstay in a number of publications but none has perhaps been as beautifully designed than those in the weekly magazine...
View ArticleMapCarte 170/365: Tour de France 2010 by I Love Dust, 2010
Map shapes used as containers for a collage of graphics isn’t necessarily original but they work very well, particularly for magazines, posters and promotional material. They actually require very...
View ArticleMapCarte 244/365: War in the Falklands by London Sunday Times, 1982
There was a time not so long ago when newspapers included simple yet dramatic illustrations, often that incorporated maps. That’s not to say that such work doesn’t still exist but it tends to...
View ArticleMapCarte 245/365: Florida Wildlife Corridor by Mike Reagan, 2013
The general mode of production for maps these days requires a mastery of the computer. Whether you use proprietary software through a Graphical User Interface, or code your map from scratch the basic...
View ArticleMapCarte 247/365: The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, 1937...
Fantasy maps are increasing in number and scope as more video games take place in imagined worlds and computer power is able to render environments in ever more detail. The world of Minecraft is...
View ArticleMapCarte 250/365: American Golf by Sports Illustrated, 1990
There’s something uniquely compelling about the shapes that maps make. The outlines of countries, in particular, are one-off. They are instantly recognisable and allow artists and illustrators, as...
View Article