Tony drew this map for his three-year-old daughter when she inquired about their upcoming trip to a North Carolina island. She asked, “Is that near Hawaii?” In response, he provided an impromptu geography lesson with this accurate memory map of the continents. The pink highlighter shows where she has traveled and the pink dots indicate […]
Bhaval creates abstracted images based on Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion map projection. He writes “it’s more about the way a map looks aesthetically in relation to the composition and colors I use. I like how this view of the world can be so unrecognizable to some, but once you start picking out continents it suddenly becomes […]
Ghita sent us this collaged map made by her mother. She writes,”As expat Lebanese living in Kuwait, we used to travel more than once a year, both to Lebanon to visit family as well as to other parts of the world for holidays. Hence this map is a collage of every single airplane ticket that […]
Dylan from the Netherlands sent us two maps that are perfect to share with you this week (as Father’s Day is just around the corner here in the US). This map comprises the main component of a game designed by Dylan and his son Sam. The two created it in 2003 when Sam was nine-years-old. […]
Ghadah sent this amazing map drawn by her son. She writes, “Since visiting your website a few weeks ago, I have been hounding my 13-year-old son, Yousef Abu-Ghazaleh, to search his drawings for the maps he used to sketch, and this one is his favorite. Although he mostly draws his favorite continent, South America, by […]
Pier was recently commissioned to create a map for a client’s soon-to-be husband. The client wanted the image to depict every place her fiancee called “home.” Pier’s solution was to represent a pile of overlapping books. He writes,”the four open atlases display maps – each in a different way: the charming and exotic town names […]
Patricia sent us a collection of maps drawn by students from different parts of the world. Of particular interest here is how each student formats the world based on their individual perspective. Patricia writes, “students from North America drew ‘western’ maps, where North and South America appear on the left of the world, while Europe […]