Elizabeth mention Glorious Mud Ceramics to me. I had a look at their web site and started drooling, map mugs, map coasters, map cushions – what’s not to like? I know that lots of Mappery readers are going to want one of Cressida’s glorious mugs (or cushions or coasters). Scroll […]
Yearly archives: 2020
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Who knew there is a Museum of Glass? Cartonaut sent us these pics of a map wall at the museum. “Wall at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Washington. (For those wondering, New Zealand is there)”
Javier Peláez shared these pics of a tiled wall map illustrating the travels of Captain James Cook that he spotted in Poggi, Bologna.
Regular followers of Mappery will know that the Queen of MapTat (an affectionate term) is Angharad Stone. She owns more map decorated clothing, furniture and accessories than anyone else I know. “@MapsintheWild I need that for my One Hundred Stars scarves” In thanks for the amazing work that Angharad has […]
Ivan Sanchez pointed me to Juan Toro’s pic of Texeira’s map of Madrid (original 1656) in a Seville metro station
Russ shared this map of US states from Baltimore Washington International Airport “Baltimore’s BWI security hall has a wall mural of the United States with the states’ names filling their shape.”
Technically not a map in the “wild” but hey, we all like maps and quite a few of our readers like cats as well. Via Erik Meerburg
Mark Safran shared this mappy wine label. This looks like a beautifully executed fictitious map to me, no doubt someone will correct me.
Russ sent me this pic “Tua Systems of Florida medical supply store has a huge boulder in front of their shop painted as a globe. I have no idea why!”
Nick Clarke shared these pictures showing a map of the old housing estate at Heilbronn Way in Aberavon, Wales “Gatepost-style memorial to the houses which stood where Heilbronn Way now looms over Aberavon”
Day 9 of 12 Mappy Days of Christmas Alice shared these fabulous mappy Xmas trees Absolutely loved making this Map Forest thanks @GeomniUK for the books ! @TomTheMap #recycling #gettingchildrenmapping
Raf sent us this map that he spotted on the side of a motorcycle in Barcelona. I’m struggling to work out what the map represents – “Negative image of map embedded on the motorbike silhouette.” makes it no clearer to me.
Donna and I were in Marrakesh a couple of weeks ago and, as one does, we managed to get well and truly lost in the medina. The plus side of that was that we stumbled on Dar El Bacha – Musee des Confluences which is a beautiful museum that we […]
Anyone who knows me well will know that White Hart Lane (the home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club) is a no go zone for me. Clare Nolan sent me this pic that she took while attending an NFL game at the Spurs ground recently. “Not sure if this one is […]