Jeff’s minimal map depicts Delaware Bay and the two capes that form its mouth, Cape Henlopen in Delaware to the south and Cape May in New Jersey to the north. The single line connecting them indicates the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, which has crossed the seventeen miles of bay since 1964 and remains the only direct […]
Jeff has worked as a licensed land surveyor for 47 years, and this survey of a residential property in Westchester County shows an approach that has become increasingly rare in his field. Rather than switching to computer-aided design software like most of his contemporaries, Jeff, who also holds a degree in graphic arts, developed his […]
In April 2010, the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano sent an ash cloud across northern Europe, closing airspace and stranding millions of travelers. This map documents one person’s response: an overland drive from Uppsala to Utrecht, through Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands, at a time when flying was not an option. The route south is […]
Daniel made this map as a boy, copying it from a Shell road map of Ghana and coloring it in with crayon. He labeled the country’s regions and towns as best he could, working from the reference. At the time, Daniel was helping out Mark, a fisheries advisor from the UK who had recently arrived […]
This map traces a police chase that grabbed the attention of people living in the Tree Streets neighborhood of Waynesboro, Virginia. One of Tony’s coworkers witnessed part of the chase, and drew this map to show where he was standing when the cars came around a corner.
Neal is known among his friends for his mapmaking abilities, and they regularly call on him to draw maps to local points of interest. This map suggests he also has a gift for knowing when cartography could be turned into a punchline. Drawn on notebook paper, it offers formally composed directions from 9 South Maple […]
Oskar drew this map while attending our Zoom workshop hosted by the Glasgow Zine Library. In it, he documents a trip to the airport he and his sister took earlier that day. After a six-month lockdown in Germany, his sister was finally returning to her university courses in Norway. He shows us their route from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 !! […]
This detailed and accurate hand-drawn map indicates the location of fruit trees and bushes in the Browne’s Addition neighborhood of Spokane, Washington. Though it was drawn over 11 years ago, the map could likely be used today to find the very same fruit trees Amaris identified. Go ahead and try Spokanians…(Spokanites?).