Resources

Art & Artists

Laurie Anderson, New York Social Life, 1977

Mark Bennett, American, 1956-

Stanley Brouwn, Dutch, 1935-2017

Center for Land Use Interpretation

Coast to Coast: Venice Boulevard Through the Lens of the Coast Realty Archive, Center for Land Use Interpretation, 2020

León Ferrari, Argentine, 1920-2013

Ray Johnson, American, 1927-1995

Ray Johnson, Untitled (The Mailbox), 1989

Richard Long, British, 1945-

marksearch, WE Riders, 2005-2006

Jan Rothuizen, Dutch, 1968

Caroline Shaw, Narrow Sea, 2021

Fernanda Bertini Viégas and Martin Wattenberg, Wind Map, 2012

Zarina, American, born India, 1937-2020

Zarina, Home is a Foreign Place, 1999

Raphael Zarka, Riding Modern Art, 2018 see also: Sam Spencer & James Lee, “The History Behind Some Very Skateable Sculptures,” Jenkem Magazine, 28 October 2019

Articles

Guy Debord, “Theory of the Dérive,” 1958

Ira Glass (host), “Mapping,” This American Life, 4 September 1998

“Grid plan,” Wikipedia

Jeremy Lechtzin, “Brooklyn’s Big Street Address Mess: A Wild Tale of Total Civic Dysfunction,” New York Times, 27 January 2021

Roman Mars (host), “Beneath the Skyway,” 99% Invisible, 26 January 2021

Roman Mars (host), “Map Quests: Political, Physical, and Digital,” 99% Invisible, 10 March 2020

Ann Quito, “Drawing is the best way to learn, even if you’re no Leonardo da Vinci,” Quartz, 15 September 2018

Michael Tanenbaum, “Maps make you wonder, what is Fishtown?” Philly Voice, 31 October 2016

Jennifer Tobias, “The Post-it,” MoMA Magazine, 23 Dec 2019

Michaela Winberg, “The first census, a stubborn City Council and tossing the ‘horseshoe’: How Philly invented the common street address system.” Billy Penn, 04 August 2020

Michaela Winberg, “You can walk underground from the Gallery to the Comcast Center. Here’s how to do it.” Billy Penn, 30 September 2019

Books

Katharine Harmon, The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography, 2010

Jenny Offill, Weather, 2020

William Rankin, After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century, 2018

Ed Ruscha, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966

Robert Storr, Mapping, 1994 [exhibition catalogue, pdf]

Peter Turchi, Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, 2007

Sites

B Free Franklin Post Office

Hidden City

Notion

Omoi Zaka

The Origami Paper Shop

Printed Matter

Radical Cartography

Supplies

ACCO Binder Clips, Medium

Bic Brite Liner Highlighter, Assorted Colors

Blackwing pencils

Everyday Oil

Faber-Castell 9000 Pencil, HB

Field Notes

OHTO Horizon Needlepoint Ballpoint Pen, 0.7mm

OHTO Rays Flash Dry Gel Pen, 0.5mm

Olfa SVR-2 Auto Lock Stainless Steel Cutter

Oxford Ruled Index Cards, 3 x 5 inch

Sakura Pigma Micron Pens, Set of 3: 01, 03, & 05, Black

ScotchBlue Original Multi-Surface Painter’s Tape, 1.41 inch

Sharpie Permanent Marker, Fine Point, Black

Stabilo Point 88 Fineliner Pens, 0.4mm, 30-Color Set

Staedtler Mars Plastic Eraser

Staedtler Pencil Sharpener

Stonehenge Drawing Paper Pad, 9 x 12 inch

Strathmore 400 Series Drawing Paper Pad, 9 x 12 inch

Zojirushi Stainless Steel Mug