Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]
Apollo Missions 15-17’s Lunar Topographic Orthophotomaps (1973)
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (a self describing "research institute that provides support services to NASA and the planetary science community, … [Read more...]
Gianfranco Baruchello’s Infinite Small Systems
Gianfranco Baruchello was born in Livorno in 1924. Throughout his artistic career he explored several media, from painting to drawing, photography, … [Read more...]
Gábor Attalai: Map Works For Klaus Groh (1971)
Attalai Gábor (Budapest, 1934-2011) was a leading representative of Hungarian conceptual art, performance, and graphic design. His works, with a large … [Read more...]
MAP Office: Hong Kong Is Land (2014)
MAP Office, a duo of artists and architects formed in 1996 by Laurent Gutierrez and Valerie Portefaix (already on Socks with their "Unreal Estates of … [Read more...]
Tearing, Cutting and Folding: Early Map Works by Sol LeWitt (1967-1979)
This series of early (1967 to 1979) paper works by Sol LeWitt, (also, on Socks) is part of his “100$ Drawings” which rotates around the idea of a … [Read more...]
Luke Fenech’s Stories, Maps and Connections
London based illustrator and graphic designer Luke Fenech creates works ranging from prints and editorial design to branding and … [Read more...]
The Victory Atlas: Collages by Elena Damiani
Elena Damiani (Lima 1979) is an artist based in London, concerned with "the conceptual significance of archives and the persistency with memory in a … [Read more...]
City Maps by Jazzberry Blue
Jazzberry Blue is an an artist and illustrator based in Toronto. Among his rich production, stands out a set of city maps rendered in an … [Read more...]
The Walled City of Shibam, a ‘Manhattan of the desert’
Some times ago we wrote about the walled city of Kowloon, a spontaneous, unregulated urban development near Hong Kong. Whereas that one was a … [Read more...]
Description of Egypt
Flavius Menu of N-D-L-R just wrote a very interesting post about the "Description de l'Egypte", a series of 23 volumes published after the failed … [Read more...]
Exploring the interiors of London Underground/DLR stations
Andrew Godwin, a British programmer, is working on a set of navigable 3d maps of London's tube stations. This is arguably an early version of … [Read more...]
Nova Cidade de Kilamba (Kilamba New City), a chinese-built ghost town in Africa
Perfectly aligned, ordered, colourful. But empty: only 220 apartments are occupied out of the first release of 2800 in this new town in Angola, able … [Read more...]
Atlas for the Blind, 1837
From the spectacular David Rumsey Map Collection, the 1837 "Atlas of the United States Printed for the Use of the Blind", embossed heavy paper … [Read more...]
MinJeong Ahn, An Autobiography in Diagrams
Ahn Min Jeong writes: "My work appears to be emotionless and analytic, but when you take a close look at it, the majority of my work employs motifs … [Read more...]
Lotta Nieminen, Helsinki (2010)
Lotta Nieminen is a designer and illustrator from Helsinki, Finland, living and working in Brooklyn, NY . "Helsinki" is a series of illustrated … [Read more...]
Comparing Urbanization
Berkeley's Global Metropolitan Observatory is a site focusing on large trasformation of cities. Using aerial imagery mainly coming from the Landsat 7 … [Read more...]
Johann Leonhard Rost’s “Astronomisches Handbuch” (1718)
This is one the first (if not the very first) practical astronomy books published in Germany. "Astronomisches Handbuch" appeared in 1718, edited and … [Read more...]
How the World was Imagined: Early Maps and Atlases
Depictions of the world from the Iron Age to the Age of Discovery and the emergence of modern geography during the early modern … [Read more...]
How Big Really?
BBC has just released "How Big Really?", a site that allows for the overlay of the dimension of an event onto another geographical territory. That … [Read more...]
Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris
This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]
Mapping the flowing of wind
Wind Map live-traces the flowing of wind across the territory of the United States. This delicately moving "fur" delineates the uncharted land of a … [Read more...]
ScanLAB Projects’ Bartlett Summer Show 2010 (pioneering 3d scanning)
Led by Matthew Shaw and William Trosell, the London-based ScanLAB Projects specializes in large size 3d scanning for objects, buildings and … [Read more...]
Emma McNally’s Fields, Charts, Soundings Cartographies
Emma McNally's work is an artistic cartography of imaginary nodes, network topologies, noise patterns, musical notations. Traces and scatters shape an … [Read more...]
