Michael Gould shared this pic from Johannesburg airport. I’m looking forward to a taster when we next meet up.
Clare Nolan shared these pics of an exhibition in Berlin from 2012 “Old one this, but looking through old photos for somat. This is at Schlossplatz in 2012, an exhibition called Berlin:City of Diversity. #Berlin 🇩🇪” There’s some more info on this 1:775 scale map of Berlin here
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.”