Maps and the City

Litterally anything wrapped in paper with this tape around it would make a great gift! The tape exists with the subway or railway lines of London, Tokyo and New York. Absolutely love them.

Yeah, it must be clear after all these posts that MATC likes fashionable map use & also Tolkien inspired maps.  Thanks Thanh Le, for sharing this on 9GAG.com.

Spotted this weekend while strolling (and eating half of all the delicious food that was on display) at Borough Market in London: a maploving fashionable Londoner.

So, I stumbled upon this map on Pinterest, a cool Mondrian style world map. It was posted on a blog called College Life DIY by Vanessa. And I am so happy she did because it let me to the site of ArtPause. It just won’t get much better than this site… Jawdropping map designs all over the place. Yay! I will only post two here, please go their Etsy site to see all of there amazing prints.

I really can’t wait. Game of Thrones is about to kick off Season 2 on HBO. The first season got me hooked completely (as blogged earlier)…. For anyone who missed out on Season 1 (which I doubt) there is a great Viewer’s Guide where you can check all insides about the series (about main characters, about the different Houses that are involved in a quest for power, et cetera). The Viewer’s Guide existed already, but obviously got a lot more complete since my post last year. And lucky us: they also added an Places option in the Guide. So if you read about a city you want to know more of; you can now click the Place and get directed to it on the map. Yes. Yes. Yes! Legid reason to explore the map for a while: you need to be up to date when Season 2 commences in April. Off you go, click it!

Geography rocks. On this website you can see wind flowing over the United States. Click on the map above to go to the hint.fm website and see the current currents, pretty impressive! Live nature entertainment. The gallery is almost poetically called Snapshots of Winds Past, those images almost look like pieces of leather.

So happy people keep sharing cool map stuff with me (yes, you there little uikstar, thanks for sharing). Check this map of what our world should look like according to some. The map is published on 9gag.com; a website filled with hilarious stuff. The map itself doesn’t need any explanation I guess…

Well, this is quite a striking image! Look at this map by artist Johnny Christmas, titled Global Pharmacy. I found this one on the blog community My Modern Met, founded by Alice. Christmas told them about the project: “Global Pharmacy shows, on average, the amount of pills consumed in a year for a male living in the UK, his life expectancy is 77 and he will take as many pills in the last ten years of his life, as he does in the first sixty-six.”

Alphadesigner is a name you’ve probably seen earlier when it comes to map fun. Alphadesigner (Yanko Tsvetkov) creates maps with subjects like ‘Europe according to Americans’, ‘Europe according to the French’, etcetera. (Actually, this blogpost in 2011 about his maps is one of the best read on Maps and the City.) And now he gives us ‘Europe according to the Future’. See what insights in near European future Alphadesigner offers you. Oh, and click on the map to go to his blog and read the accompanying story.

Clean design and maps go hand in hand. See these nice examples of FontMap: maps created by Richard Small, who graduated in Typography at University of Reading and now works as a communication designer at Sony. These maps have been a side hobby for him. Good news for us it that we can enjoy them also!