Category: Maps in the Wild

The Chicago Red Stars are a professional women’s football (soccer) club based in Bridgeview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. 

Dave Gee is a pretty unique cartographer, his doodle style of mapping combined with his crowd sourced approach creates beautiful maps. I interviewed Dave recently for the Geomob Podcast.

This Manchester inspired bench was designed for the Wild in Art trail last year.

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, Russia, Morocco, Iraq, Poland and Yemen.

The artist explains:

This is the Columbus Room at Aboluxe Suites in Kirkby Lonsdale, Yorkshire.

Thomas Gratier pointed us at Kate Berg shared this

“When in the Upper Peninsula, you pick local beers. When you’re a spatial specialist you pick beers with maps on the labels. What a win-win”

“Marble is a medium of choice for the artist, and his virtuosity with the classical stone is evident in his meticulously rendered, impossibly elegant sculptures of cityscapes and highways. Little Manhattan—exhibited in Sone’s most important exhibition to date, a 2011 solo show at David Zwirner Gallery—is a landscape of the island metropolis carved out of a 2.5-ton block of marble that scales the Empire State building down to the size of a child’s finger and still manages to retain every bit of detail. Sone’s work forces the viewer to confront this iconic landscape in new ways—seen from overhead, laid out in pristine white marble, New York City seems considerably more placid. “

This pure beauty was brought to our attention by @zippyman818 following our post: Topographical Map Carved from Electrical Tape by Takahiro Iwasaki

A new joiner in the Map Cow family. This one can be found in front of the “Les Galeries Du Mont-Saint-Michel” near the famous place. Brought to you by Mark Sapfran