Our friend Cartonaut sent us this pic “Courtyard Marriott Hotel Long Beach has nautical chart decorative theme throughout including abstracted symbology “
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Elizabeth spotted this t-shirt in Shoreditch designed by Kai Krause. It was only when I looked more carefully that I got what it was trying to show – Africa is massive, swallowing China, the US, India and several more countries! The Mercator projection misleads us, Kai Krause puts us straight […]
We were wandering around the “Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance” exhibition at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol when I stumbled on this Beck based abomination which I had to include for Ken. This really is a meaningless load of bovine manure.
This map table at the Post Office Tower in Washington has views of some landmark buildings. It is also a haven for bell ringers like my friend Elizabeth.
Cartonaut sent us these pics of an installation by Jody Zellen “The Unemployed” is an interactive installation that visualizes world wide unemployment. Using data culled from online sources that list unemployment rates by country, “The Unemployed” represents the jobless as animated figures who inhabit a generic cityscape. The number of […]
Today is the 12th day of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas, when I started collecting these images I had no idea whether we would get enough to fill the whole 12 days but we have made it! Phew, now we can revert to a more measured schedule of publishing. […]
Today is the 11th day of our 12 Mappy Days of Christmas, nearly there!! Greg Fiske shared these mappy wrapping bows.
This is day 10 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas Barry Rowlingson made these mappy objects. I don’t know if they are particularly intended for Christmas but we have to keep filling our 12 Mappy days.
Reinder Storm spotted this textual map in Leiden. We could debate whether it really is a map in the wild but I am exercising editorial privilege.
Day 8 of 12 Mappy Days of Christmas and we are still finding seasonal fare. Simon Miles shared this pic from his local Christmas Market in Winchester. Mappy New Year