I visited the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. This is the cartouche for Tutankhamun on the lid of a box found in his burial chamber. I’d always thought that a cartouche was a mappy thing but originally it was “an oval with a line at one end at right […]
Justin Pickard shared this pic of Estonian President, Kersti Kaljulaid arriving at the UN General Assembly 74th Session. That is one heck of a cool dress, riffing off of the UN logo methinks. Thanks to Jorge Sanz for pointing me to this one.
Elizabeth spotted this map of Wall Street (NY) on a hoarding for a construction site at Liverpool Street (London). A couple more below, a little less mappy but still nice.
Cartonaut sent us this “Another one for ya, Catalina Island map, hand painted by a friend on the back of the terrestrial lab at Catalina Island Marine Institute, Toyon Cove. By Brian Thomas and Herb Jahncke if you can’t read the corner. Former staff at CIMI.”
Mark Safran sent us this pic along with a claim that it is the oldest Map in the Wild ever. “I win the best #MapsInTheWild!!!! Or maybe the oldest? Here is a petroglyph along the Colorado River in Utah clearly showing a map of the river!!! #maps #cartography #rivers #petroglyphs” […]
Andrew Newman sent me these laser cut metal contour maps created by Alison Counsell Wapenmap are stainless steel sculptures. these designs, based on Ordnance Survey maps, are produced from flat sheets of meta; photo-etched with detailed geographical features. The four reservoirs shown here were built in the 1860s when Sheffields […]