All Blog Posts Tagged 'maps' (7)

UK-based artist Matthew Picton uses strips of paper to construct maps of cities from around the world. The Londoner's sculptural creations use both historic and fictional texts to produce cartographic representations of multicultural cities like Las Vegas, Dresden, Tehran, and Venice. The materials used are reflective of each respective culture, from literary and religious texts…

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Spain-based artist Michael Tompsett has created a fun series of colorful maps made of paint splashes. Not only does he have a world map, he's also created rainbow-colored abstract maps for individual countries like Ireland, New Zealand and Australia.

"Art and design has interested me since an early age, so much so that art class was the one lesson at school I genuinely looked…

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Do you ever feel lost? If your answer is yes, then you can probably relate to these set of images by photographer Susannah Benjamin that display a young woman laying across a jumble of road maps. The striking shots exude a sense of feeling lost and trying to find oneself. Benjamin says, "My work explores themes of metamorphosis, adolescence, self-image, etc." She certainly would know…

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Susan Stockwell up-cycles with intense ingenuity. The parts the UK-based artist uses for each piece adds to the message she attempts to relay to the world. World is a giant world map made from recycled computer parts commissioned by the University of Bedfordshire. What began in 2010 is now completed with motherboards, electrical wiring, fans and other components donated by the… Continue

Blessed with both an impressive imagination and artistic skill, Nikki Rosato creates incredible people portraits...all made from maps! Her reason for choosing road maps as her medium? “Our physical bodies are beautiful structures full of detail, and they hold the stories that haunt and mold our lives," she says. "The lines on a road map are beautifully similar to the lines that cover the surface of the… Continue

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Karen O'Leary creates incredibly detailed hand-cut maps from paper. Using razor precision, the North Carolina-based artist manipulates negative and positive space to form delicate webs of city streets, while land and water are cut away.



"I love the idea of a completely familiar object made new and even more beautiful," says O'Leary. "These… Continue

Girl GO - New maps & directions site from Google
Via: http://www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/girlgo-a-new-service-from-google/