Monthly archives: August 2022

Melinda Clarke is a new contributor to Mappery but she has arrived with some wow pics. Nice to discover your Mappery website, I look forward to the updates. I am an “Accidental” map maker, I collected lots of lovely illustrated maps when I was backpacking around Europe & USA in […]

Just a little globe spotted in the window of a house in Gavle from Reinder

Ilya sent us this pic of the banner for the Let it Sprout graduation exhibition at the Latvian Academy of Arts Hi guys, Here’s a banner I saw near Latvian Academy of Arts. I liked that the map is very subtle, but when you see it, it’s very clear. Ilya

Andrew Zolnai shared this postcard which has a stamp issued by Fiji celebrating its location on the international dateline.

Marc-Tobias and his wife are intrepid travellers and hard core cyclists. He shared this pic of an amazing map store in Kathmandu because everyone needs a map of the Mount Everest Base Camp.

Reinder sent us this amazing globe candle stand which he spotted in Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden

We are in Tel Aviv for a few weeks and I spotted this in a small photographic exhibition. It’s a map of Israel with the countries of origin of some of the main immigrant communities laid out in scrabble pieces on top of the map – Iran, France, Spain, Norway, […]

Jeremy Morley sent this pic of an early map of Mozambique and surrounding territories from the Military Museum in Lisbon. It’s interesting that the map has west to the top (north arrow points right), quite unusual – I’m guessing that the map was rotated to hang in landscape to fit […]

Elizabeth went to see the Bob Marley show at the Lyric Theatre. The backdrop combines the Jamaican flag, a photo of Marley and of course a map of Jamaica. Pretty perfect for map loving old music fans!

Spotted at a vegan food festival in Tel Aviv

They are building a light railway in Tel Aviv, there are major road works from south to north. This Beck style diagram is on many of the hoardings, I like the birds sitting on the lines.

You might say that this is yet another map on a van but the network effect is a bit different, Reinder said “Okay it’s just another map on some van – but what I like is the hint of triangulation in the design. I hope you do too! Saw this […]