All Blog Posts Tagged 'map' (7)

Incredible New Portraits Carved from Old Military Maps

Stafford Lane

Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He's still using traditional ink to draw on maps but now he's cutting and layering maps to create incredibly intriguing works. For the piece above,…

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Added by alice on May 8, 2013 at 10:00am — 1 Comment

NASA's HIghly Detailed Map of America's Trees

Josef Kellndorfer and Wayne Walker of the Woods Hole Research Center recently worked with the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Geological Survey to create this highly detailed map of all the trees in America. Over six years, researchers assembled the national forest map from space-based radar, satellite sensors, computer models, and a massive amount of ground-based data. The…

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Added by Eugene on January 19, 2012 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Creative Map Characters

Wow, how fun are these? Canada-based visual artist Ingrid Dabringer finds art where most of us wouldn't normally look. She uses acrylic paint to draw playful and happy characters on, what else, but ordinary maps. “I like to elevate the mundane," she says. "The mundane is so saturated with meaning if we just take an extra second to dwell on it. The mundane is saturated with symbolism."…

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Added by Alyssa Anda on July 22, 2011 at 12:00pm — 2 Comments

The Island

A hand drawn map of London with incredible detail. By Stephen Walter.

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Added by Yasmine Zalek on May 18, 2010 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

Life Map to Quarter Age Crisis - Colleen Corcoran

Here's a cool little life map that I happen to come upon today. It's funny how we share some of life's biggest experiences. This somehow makes me feel connected to people (and that's a good thing).

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Added by alice on October 2, 2009 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

A Beautifully Designed Map of Manhattan - Jim Datz

Love this poster of Mahattan (titled 'Man Hat Tan') that was a collaboration between Three Potato Four and designer Jim Datz. It combines several of their loves (and ours) - New York City, typography, color, 50's inspired illustrations, and urban signage.