Duncan Hill of Europa Technology shared this map inspired racing helmet. “Nice convergence of #maps and #F1 with Seb’s helmet design for this weekend’s Styrian GP”
Silke Voigts shared this pic of an eggbot The company that lent us the eggbot, a pen robot that paints on round surfaces, is working with maps and so they made us promise to paint an easter egg world 🙂
Reinder Storm (who else?) sent me these pics of a map vending machine in Amsterdam. Ah … once again, I had a brief encounter with the #map #machine. I love it!😊 #mapmachine
Spotted by Dave Lovell We’ve been avid fell-walkers most of our lives and unsurprisingly, the idea to produce this data visualisation came to us while wandering the mountains of the English Lake District together. Unable to find a suitable artwork that would allow us to record and display our ascents […]
Dave Lovell spotted these crafty pencils with escape route maps inserted into the pencil barrel from WW2 “I was particularly interested in the Maps for POWs secreted inside pencils. I wonder whether this cunning plan, expertly implemented led to any successful escapes. Maps were essential to the war effort on […]
Another one from Reinder Storm “Performance in the autumn of 2019, at the public library in The Hague (The Netherlands); not quite sure what to make of it … “A remarkable example of modern art”, as Sir Winston Churchill used to say @MapsintheWild @bieb070”
This one was spotted by Dave Lovell (again!) “At the House of Illustration https://www.houseofillustration.org.uk/ summer 2019. Nixon as a sinister bald eagle. Love it!” The image is by Rene Mederos (1971) In the early 1970s US military forces were engaged in conflict in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. To censure their actions, Rene […]
Via Reinder ‘Den Haag – Praha’, 1989 by Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961). Museum @Voorlinden, Wassenaar #Kuitca is well known “for his use of maps – particularly his transcriptions of topography onto mattresses”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_Kuitca