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Very Expensive Maps

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  • You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
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Episodes
  • Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”

    Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”
    Apr 30 2024

    Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors’ problems, making it interesting for himself (“I’m known to make things more complicated than they might need to be”), spending eight years painting the Rockies’ western slope, working from his own photographs, taking inspiration from the past, getting into the culture of what he’s mapping, drawing coastlines, and some advice for developing artists: “Be a good draftsman.” See Erick’s work at erickingraham.com

    • Landscape paintings
    • Children’s books
    • Maps
    • Vermont’s Kingdom Heritage Lands
    • Winter 1888: Record Snowfall
    • Where Do Forest Birds Go in Winter?
    • Green Witnesses
    • Western Watershed Map
    • Dugald Stermer
    • James Gurney
    • John Singer Sargent
    • Maxfield Parrish
    • NC Wyeth
    • Arthur Rackham
    • Gustave Baumann
    • Richard Estes
    • Tom Blackwell

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    30 mins
  • Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”

    Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”
    Feb 20 2024
    London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the semiotic residues of humankind,” an invitation to map an Ivorian national park (and why you should wait for the dry season before attempting this), approaching six years of work on an NYC map, interpreting Michael Drayton’s 17th c. topographical poem Poly-Olbion into a 6x5 ft. folkloric tour of England and Wales, walking the territory, the origins of “north up,” the souls of places, a half-day's research to place a single label, and his vision of Utopia. See his work at stephenwalter.org In-progress map of ManhattanLondon Subterranea, 2012Nova Utopia, 2013Albion, 2016Brexitland, 2019Map of Comoé (La carte de la Comoé), 2019Henry Dreyfuss’s Symbol SourcebookJerry BrottonGerardus MercatorJacopo de' Barbari’s 1500 View of VeniceAbrahram Ortelius’s 1595 map of UtopiaThe 1648 Klencke Atlas of England (5x5 ft.!), presented by Joannes Klencke to Charles II on his 1660 restoration to the throneJohn Rocque’s 1746 map of LondonGreenwood’s 1830 map of LondonEgbert L. Viele’s 1865 Manhattan mapBodleian Library map collectionPaul NobleLayla CurtisKatie PattersonAlighiero BoettiGrayson PerryEd FairburnEwan David EasonEmilio IsgòJustine SmithPaula ScherOther Fabrications Need maps for your org’s reports, decks, walls and events? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Map Consultancy makes real nice maps, real fast.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ See what good maps can do for you at themapconsultancy.com I have three words for you: Big. Glowing. Maps. Depending on how that makes you feel, you might like two more words: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Radiant Maps⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. See ultra-detailed backlit maps at radiantmaps.co Time for some map gifts: get 15% off woven map blankets and backlit map decor with code 15OFF, everything ships free – ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/RadiantMaps?coupon=15OFF
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    43 mins
  • John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

    John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”
    Dec 26 2023

    Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown’s pedestrian passages, a public debate with Massimo Vignelli (“His geography was egregious”), working at a very different MTA (they used to have an aesthetics committee?), the “no improvements” made to the subway map since he chaired the 1979 MTA map committee, guiding Yann Arthus-Bertrand’s helicopter photo surveys of Manhattan, walking every block and learning Illustrator to create his acclaimed 176-page Manhattan tourist guide, how to make a usable bus map, New York’s vanished map stores, and a longitudinal view of the business: “plus ça change, plus c'est la même bull████.” See his work at johntauranac.com

    • Tauranac Maps
    • Manhattan Block By Block: A Street Atlas
    • Bauhaus vs. Beaux-Arts
    • Vignelli’s 1972 NYC subway map
    • Tauranac’s 1979 NYC subway map
    • The 2023 NYC subway map
    • Nobu Siraisi
    • John explains his subway map design choices
    • Yann Arthus-Bertrand
    • DeLorme Maps
    • Alex McPhee’s giant maps of Canada
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    36 mins
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