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| This map by Silvia Sponza of Milano, Italy is on the website; not sure if it in the book, but is representative of those that are! |
Here is information about the book.
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maps. Show all posts
December 2, 2015
Map lovers...attention, please!
They Draw and Travel is a book now! 100 maps of American places illustrated with charm and creativity by sketchers from all over. Maps have been previously published in the web site. You have been to the web site, yes? No? Get thee over there, my friend, if you call yourself a map lover and fellow traveler.
Here is information about the book.
Here is information about the book.
March 1, 2015
Buried Treasure: Jerry Gretzinger
This was an phrase I read recently as it relates to blogging. Buried in my blog, as is true of everyone's, are posts you have not seen, BUT YOU SHOULD :) Posts get buried pretty quickly. I am reposting...resurrecting...one of these each week. There are artists, artwork, resources, and amusements that need a second life.
At the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, there is currently an exhibit of the amazing Imaginary World Map by Jerry Gretzinger. This made me pull out my post of August 28, 2011.
From a Guy Kawasaki tweet, I learned about this extraordinary gentleman who started drawing and painting little imaginary maps in 1963 and has never stopped, building entire worlds into three generations. The mind boggles. Read the short article here then enjoy the video. If you're not wowed, then my name isn't Jack Sprat.
Jerry's Map from Jerry Gretzinger on Vimeo.
Hey, I retweeted this, posted it on my Facebook page, and emailed to friends and colleagues. This is one of the most interesting things I've seen anyone do. It never ceases to amaze me what people are up to.
Translated text from museum site: In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger (born 1942, lives and works in Maple City, United States) drew the first element in the map of an imaginary world. Every day this drawing has been increased, extending a world and drawing the physiognomy of an unknown land, which gave rise to cities such as 'Plaeides' or 'Ukrainia.
Fifty years later, the cartographer is always working on the same document, which morphed into a space consisting of more than three thousand sheets of A4 paper. Every morning, Jerry Gretzinger draws a card from a game he created himself. It tells the transformation should realize: Add a building, remove roads, create fallow lands.
The world that he mapping arises from the development of the card itself, at the discretion of the superposition of layers deposited on the paper. These metamorphoses are collected in an inventory, memory of the successive stages of construction and modification of this universe.
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| Jerry Gretzinger Exhibition at Palais de Tokyo |
From a Guy Kawasaki tweet, I learned about this extraordinary gentleman who started drawing and painting little imaginary maps in 1963 and has never stopped, building entire worlds into three generations. The mind boggles. Read the short article here then enjoy the video. If you're not wowed, then my name isn't Jack Sprat.
Jerry's Map from Jerry Gretzinger on Vimeo.
Hey, I retweeted this, posted it on my Facebook page, and emailed to friends and colleagues. This is one of the most interesting things I've seen anyone do. It never ceases to amaze me what people are up to.
Translated text from museum site: In 1963, Jerry Gretzinger (born 1942, lives and works in Maple City, United States) drew the first element in the map of an imaginary world. Every day this drawing has been increased, extending a world and drawing the physiognomy of an unknown land, which gave rise to cities such as 'Plaeides' or 'Ukrainia.
Fifty years later, the cartographer is always working on the same document, which morphed into a space consisting of more than three thousand sheets of A4 paper. Every morning, Jerry Gretzinger draws a card from a game he created himself. It tells the transformation should realize: Add a building, remove roads, create fallow lands.
The world that he mapping arises from the development of the card itself, at the discretion of the superposition of layers deposited on the paper. These metamorphoses are collected in an inventory, memory of the successive stages of construction and modification of this universe.
July 19, 2014
Mapaholic Alert
Jill Berry and Mary Nassar...and all other cartophile friends....Have you seen this?
Quote from site: The True Size of Africa" is one of the 140 maps that superstar curator and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist has put together for the hardcover, "Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies." A creative offshoot of the gallery's Map Marathonthat took place in 2010, the book features maps as we've never considered them before. Damien Hirst writes instructions on how to get to his house (starting with "Call first"), former RISD president John Maeda draws a "map of the future" scribbled on a Best Western notepad, Yoko Ono contributes her poem "Map Piece" from her 1964 book "Grapefruit," Matt Mullican asks the reader to consider the calendar as a map of the future, and Sir Timothy Berners-Lee creates a map of "mingling and evolution of influences in the world wide web" (which, if you're not familiar, he invented)."
Quote from site: The True Size of Africa" is one of the 140 maps that superstar curator and Serpentine Gallery co-director Hans Ulrich Obrist has put together for the hardcover, "Mapping It Out: An Alternative Atlas of Contemporary Cartographies." A creative offshoot of the gallery's Map Marathonthat took place in 2010, the book features maps as we've never considered them before. Damien Hirst writes instructions on how to get to his house (starting with "Call first"), former RISD president John Maeda draws a "map of the future" scribbled on a Best Western notepad, Yoko Ono contributes her poem "Map Piece" from her 1964 book "Grapefruit," Matt Mullican asks the reader to consider the calendar as a map of the future, and Sir Timothy Berners-Lee creates a map of "mingling and evolution of influences in the world wide web" (which, if you're not familiar, he invented)."
April 27, 2014
Today's Sunday Papers Treat
I am such a sucker for interactive maps, visual encyclopedias, graphic data. And, baseball fan that I also am, though somewhat temporarily disenchanted with my frustrating Cubbies, I particularly love this map. It's highly interactive and you can find out much more detail, even to the city, about who your friends and neighbors follow. Who knows? You might be living next door to a White Sox fan. Oh dear.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/24/upshot/facebook-baseball-map.html#10,41.7495,-87.7957
http://nyti.ms/1tF5e2W
January 12, 2014
Mapping 2014
My "assignment" - Create a map of 2014. Jill Berry's Facebook group, Arty Cartophiles, were challenged to create a map of 2014, share on our blogs, and invite you to see others in a blog hop this week (Jan. 13-17) at her blog or here. (http://personal-geographies.com)
Hmmm...I could go abstract on this one. I could use a real map as a background for a map painting. What to do, what to do, I pondered this one for awhile.
I flipped through an unfinished journal of pages that I had started with backgrounds and found one that had a grid made by a stencil spray. Grids mean maps to me, so that's what I chose. The page was too large for my scanner, so there are two close-ups followed by the full page taken with camera. I see that I forgot to add, on Hopeful Way, Cubs win World Series. I must do that.
I had lots of fun creating little streets and using map symbols and references. I'm not crazy about the design, a bit bottom heavy and lacking a good focus (not to mention a title!) But, that's a map, eh? I did make a "route" of blue to lead the eye through town. Although it's not a river, it kinda looks like one, so that's a bit mappy, too, I think. As I add more through the year, perhaps it will come together.
Making this map pushed me to solidify my goals for the house and for my art and for my wish to grow the Red Chair Studio.
Hmmm...I could go abstract on this one. I could use a real map as a background for a map painting. What to do, what to do, I pondered this one for awhile.
I flipped through an unfinished journal of pages that I had started with backgrounds and found one that had a grid made by a stencil spray. Grids mean maps to me, so that's what I chose. The page was too large for my scanner, so there are two close-ups followed by the full page taken with camera. I see that I forgot to add, on Hopeful Way, Cubs win World Series. I must do that.
Making this map pushed me to solidify my goals for the house and for my art and for my wish to grow the Red Chair Studio.
August 28, 2011
A Lifetime Passion
From a Guy Kawasaki tweet, I learned about this extraordinary gentleman who started drawing and painting little imaginary maps in 1963 and has never stopped, building entire worlds into three generations. The mind boggles. Read the short article here then enjoy the video. If you're not wowed, then my name isn't Jack Sprat.
Hey, I retweeted this, posted it on my Facebook page, and emailed to friends and colleagues. This is one of the most interesting things I've seen anyone do. It never ceases to amaze me what people are up to.
Jerry's Map from Jerry Gretzinger on Vimeo.
Hey, I retweeted this, posted it on my Facebook page, and emailed to friends and colleagues. This is one of the most interesting things I've seen anyone do. It never ceases to amaze me what people are up to.
July 30, 2011
Map Nirvana: They Draw and Travel
Source: theydrawandtravel.com via Diane on Pinterest
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