Courtney drew this map for her brother on the occasion of his first visit to Boston, guiding him from the C train to her apartment on St. Paul Street. Landmarks like the Holiday Inn, the Capitol building, and the helpful notes “ring bell here” and “you’re above ground!” give the map a warm, personal quality […]
Courtney sent us this map she drew in 2008 to help direct ushers to the new location of their office. She writes, “Who can ever find classroom numbers in old academic buildings? I thought a map could more easily convey where to find our new office. This building on Michigan State University’s campus is the […]
Courtney sent this Post-It drawn by a colleague to document Courtney’s wanderlust during the month of September. Having finished working on an opera in Santa Fe, she traveled home to Michigan, took a family trip to New York then Boston, visited friends in Seattle and Houston, and finished up the month with a move !! […]
Courtney found these maps while cleaning out her closet. She created them for a project in her seventh grade social studies class in 1998. The project included maps of the entire Eastern hemisphere including these maps of Europe and the Middle East. She recalled toiling over the maps as no tracing was allowed. As part […]
Courtney’s friend Will Hyman created this this diagram while in the early stages of designing a website for a Seattle architect.
These diagrams were used while Courtney was a stage manager at the Michigan University Opera Theatre to map out the four acts of Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” Courtney writes, “Although most of the objects are chairs or walls, there was quite a big tree in Act IV, and the largest square that appears in […]
Courtney created this map with her friend Matt representing the Ballard neighborhood in Seattle. She drew her rough approximation of how to find Matt’s house, then he finished the rest to make sure she got there correctly.
Courtney’s friend, Peter Howard, drew this map to explain a safe route from his apartment in downtown Detroit to the Lodge Freeway.
Courtney sent this map she drew for a friend while working at the Seattle Opera. The director was meeting some of the singers at Caffe Zingaro to go over some notes for a performance. The map shows the cafe in relation to the opera house and the Seattle Center.