Walter Schwartz said “Every Wednesday my hiking group covers about 15 km of distance and 500 meters of elevation, almost always “in the wild.” As one of us changed into hiking shoes I spotted this insole. It’s a kind of map that has seen plenty of wild!” I think we […]
Monthly archives: March 2024
Rollo was drinking this tasty South African Malbec from the Cape Geography Co and was inspired to send us a pic before he finished the bottle!
Mark Iliffe spotted this neat t-shirt in a New York shop. You may need to enlarge the picture to appreciate it. I want (L please).
Maarten Pullen sent us this pic of a vending machine that he spotted in Amsterdam. If you are puzzled by this one, Maarten explained “The shot was taken in Amsterdam, at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate. They probably want to show some of their local identity to all the […]
Eric Lund said “Came across this eye-catching map at my eye doctor’s office this week and had to share it with you.” Well I am glad he did share it, what a cracking map in the wild! Here’s a bit more detail. This piece was designed by Tad Bradley, the […]
Tony Rabin spotted this map of the indigenous peoples of Australia near the Qantas bording gate at LAX
A few weeks ago I did an interview with Eve Kahn for a piece she was writing for The NewYork Times about what she calls “Cartifacts” which are a subset of Maps in the Wild. Mappery gets a very nice write up of course and I recommend the whole piece […]
Marianne Pietersen sent us these pics from her visit to Archer Field. “Last year I went to a lecture at Archer Field, Brisbane, about the history of the Dutch military camp there,during WW2. In a side room of the airport building was a small amount of photos from those days, […]
This stunning relief map was sent to us by Scott Simmons who spotted it at the Swiss National Museum in Zurich.
Alastair Graham sent me this pic of a box he received with some new trail running kit from Harrier. That looks like serious stuff but I guess you would need it to zip up and down those contours.
Ed Parsons spotted this piece of Becksploitation by Samsung on the London Underground. The blurb says: When is a circle not a circle? The Circle Line? More an elongated oval line. Less memorable, admittedly. Our new Galaxy S24 Series uses a circle to transform how you search. Just draw one […]
Marc Tobias was in London for a few days spotting Maps in the Wild. He sent me this “Queenhithe is a historic ward of London at the Thames, there is an art installation, a mosaic which shows the history of London as a timeline along the river Thames. You can […]
This pic from @wijfi comes from the Morris Museum in Morristown, NJ Fred J. Kingan (American, 1887-1947)MAP OF HISTORIC TRAILS, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1942-1947Oil and graphite on wood After a lifelong interest in American pioneer history, artist Fred J. Kingan, started a six-year project researching historic American trails, […]