Reinder sent us this pic of a neat cycle courier bag complete with a map of Amsterdam, useful if you are making deliveries in the central area!
Monthly archives: May 2023
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Erik spotted this at the picture by Sueur at theLouvre. Plan of the Charterhouse of Paris, carried by Two Angels (1645-1648)From the small cloister of the Carthusian monastery in Paris.
At friends the other week for dinner and we were drinking this lovely mappy, fruity, Italian white wine.
On Easter Monday, my wife suggested that we go to the Spain and the Hispanic World exhibition at the Royal Academy. There are a couple of maps, she teased to get me interested. Well there were more than a couple of maps! This is another longish post with a load […]
Christian Sommer spotted this map / sculpture / picture showing ‘hypsometric layers, vegetation (and delta deposits?)’
Cartographic sartorial elegance from T.J.Maxx? Fascinating showing the Americas drifting in a north easterly direction. Or just the shirt designer not giving much thought to what the map looks when it is buttoned up? Original credit: HarvardMapCollection
Answer is beneath map! The original post implies that the green line is a bit of a problem in real life too! (Answer was Boston!) Original source: HarvardMapCollection
I really struggled to put a caption to this as spotted by Edie Punt in Downtown LA, so thought how about “What is art?” Well the Oxford Dictionary states it as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or […]
Source: Ross McDonald spotted this. The map is part of a sponsorship scheme for children’s yoga in South African townships.
Andrew Zolnai spotted this in a shop window in Cambridge. The artist goes by the name of “The Real Hackney Dave“.
Reinder sent us this, it almost needs no explanation. “Back in 2010, a friend of mine had breakfast in Texas …” Photograph: © Peter & René van der Krogt, Delft, the Netherlands.
Marc-Tobias sent me this pic of an old German globe toy. You can have some fun trying to work out the age of this globe from the names of the countries in Africa. “The globe is in German. What’s surprising here is that it useshistorical borders. You see Namibia is […]
Anthony Rabin spotted this at the National Archive in Kew, England. “There Be Monsters was inspired by the Map and Atlas collection within The National Archives. The aim was to use devices and imaginary creatures inscribed on some of the oldest maps to inspire adults with experience of mental ill […]