Michelle sent me this pic of this map dress “Managed to get hold of the friend that took it..she says she took a quick photo but didn’t take much notice..it was at the airport in Japan..she was looking for her departure gate!!”
Maps in the Wild
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Elizabeth has been spotting mappy book covers all over the place. These two are from a display at Waterstones And I couldn’t resist this display of map books in Seven Dials Market I love the old AtoZ reproduction
Where was Troy? I visited the Troy exhibition at the British Museum yesterday and realised that I didn’t know. My erudite friend said it was on the north west coast of Turkey, and he was correct. These pics are from a display panel in the exhibition. Not particularly wild but […]
Jon Morris was staying at the Hub on East Market St in Edinburgh while attending FOSS4G UK. He thought this map was monstrosity but I don’t agree. “Glad I won’t be spending too much time here, with this monstrosity by the bed. You can’t quite see it, but the Royal […]
My friend Elizabeth sent me this map that she spotted in an Indian restaurant in Washington. I like the way that customers have embellished the map with “Yum” and even better “A meal without wine is breakfast”
Our friend Cartonaut sent us this pic “Courtyard Marriott Hotel Long Beach has nautical chart decorative theme throughout including abstracted symbology “
Elizabeth spotted this t-shirt in Shoreditch designed by Kai Krause. It was only when I looked more carefully that I got what it was trying to show – Africa is massive, swallowing China, the US, India and several more countries! The Mercator projection misleads us, Kai Krause puts us straight […]
We were wandering around the “Still I Rise: Feminisms, Gender, Resistance” exhibition at the Arnolfini gallery in Bristol when I stumbled on this Beck based abomination which I had to include for Ken. This really is a meaningless load of bovine manure.
This map table at the Post Office Tower in Washington has views of some landmark buildings. It is also a haven for bell ringers like my friend Elizabeth.
Cartonaut sent us these pics of an installation by Jody Zellen “The Unemployed” is an interactive installation that visualizes world wide unemployment. Using data culled from online sources that list unemployment rates by country, “The Unemployed” represents the jobless as animated figures who inhabit a generic cityscape. The number of […]
Today is the 12th day of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas, when I started collecting these images I had no idea whether we would get enough to fill the whole 12 days but we have made it! Phew, now we can revert to a more measured schedule of publishing. […]
Today is the 11th day of our 12 Mappy Days of Christmas, nearly there!! Greg Fiske shared these mappy wrapping bows.
This is day 10 of the 12 Mappy Days of Christmas Barry Rowlingson made these mappy objects. I don’t know if they are particularly intended for Christmas but we have to keep filling our 12 Mappy days.
Reinder Storm spotted this textual map in Leiden. We could debate whether it really is a map in the wild but I am exercising editorial privilege.