This truly beautiful, large scale map was created by Scott while hand surveying Discovery Park with a plane table and pacing. He describes some of his process: “I walked as steady a bearing as possible across the park until I hit the shore of Puget Sound. The park is partially an old army fort with […]
Courtney’s friend Will Hyman created this this diagram while in the early stages of designing a website for a Seattle architect.
This map sent to us from Julie at the Seattle Municipal Archives, documents a proposed park, the Burke-Gilman Trail Park. This map was part of a proposal for turning an old rail line in Seattle into a bicycle trail. See more maps, photos and ephemera from the Seattle Municipal Archives at their Flickr site.
Scott sent this fascinatingly detailed map of alder trees that were felled by a family of beavers. He writes, “some people look at this as damage, but I like to point out that this is exactly what beaver are supposed to do. They’re actually making land and making forest when they cut down fast growing […]
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.
Scott, a mechanical engineer turned artist drew this detailed map using a homemade alidade and plane table (a set of 19th-century surveying tools used to sight and draw the angle of distant objects). The sketch reveals Scott’s process, recording its own construction. From a series of eight stations (A-H) pencil lines fan outward, one for […]
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.