Mark Safran tweeted some great pictures a few years ago of this metal mural of the San Antonio river watershed. it must have taken a considerable amount of work to produce this. I’m not sure whether you are aloud to touch it, but it certainly looks very tactile!
Yearly archives: 2023
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Maps often appear on bottles of wine. We know that at Mappery, because the team have conducted extensive amounts of primary research on the topic. Ken spotted this one on a bottle from the Napa Valley. The simplicity of the contours and the river against dark bottle have such an […]
Benjamin Hennig posted some beautiful pictures on Twitter of an amazing relief map of Iceland in Reykjavik City Hall.
Shannon Gonzales 🐙(she/her) tweeted pictures of this flowery map of the USA at a California state fair.
Darrel Furhiman sent me this lovely pic of an old decorative plate with a map of the Panama Canal that he spotted on the wall at Dan and Louis’ Oyster House in Portland, OR
Professional cartographers see maps everywhere. Ken can’t even get through a bowl of caramel cluster cornflakes without spotting Antarctica in it. Source: Kenneth Field
Technically reading a map in the wild, isn’t really a “Map in the Wild”. Once in a while though we’re prepared to break our own self imposed strict editorial guidelines and this is such a great photo in such a beautiful location at Mount Whitney, that we’ll let this one […]
Paul Smith might be great at cutting cloth, but have still got a bit to learn about cutting holes in maps. Just a little further south west and it would have fit beautifully in the Indian Ocean between Madagascar and Sri Lanka, without taking out half of South East Asia. […]
A somewhat abstract map being used in some sort of fantasy boardgame! Credit: Foot Of The Mountain Adventures
“This is not just any map in the wild. This is a juicy M&S currency exchange desk map in the wild …” Reference likely to be completely lost for anybody outside the UK. Original credit: Tony Timlin
Our friend Cartonaut shared this tea towel map of spicy dishes from Minnesota At #NACIS 2022 in Minneapolis, Faye Passow presented on her lively and humorous work.Spirited, eclectic, quirky, joyful, and idiosyncratic in style and form, while deeply aware of context in art and cartography, these maps and their nostalgic messages also […]
