Christian Sommer spotted this map / sculpture / picture showing ‘hypsometric layers, vegetation (and delta deposits?)’

Cartographic sartorial elegance from T.J.Maxx? Fascinating showing the Americas drifting in a north easterly direction. Or just the shirt designer not giving much thought to what the map looks when it is buttoned up? Original credit: HarvardMapCollection

Answer is beneath map! The original post implies that the green line is a bit of a problem in real life too! (Answer was Boston!) Original source: HarvardMapCollection

I really struggled to put a caption to this as spotted by Edie Punt in Downtown LA, so thought how about “What is art?” Well the Oxford Dictionary states it as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or […]

Source: Ross McDonald spotted this. The map is part of a sponsorship scheme for children’s yoga in South African townships.

Andrew Zolnai spotted this in a shop window in Cambridge. The artist goes by the name of “The Real Hackney Dave“.

Andrew Zolnai sent us this pic of his colleague’s very neat Woodstock Zambon watch.

Reinder sent us this, it almost needs no explanation. “Back in 2010, a friend of mine had breakfast in Texas …” Photograph: © Peter & René van der Krogt, Delft, the Netherlands.  

Marc-Tobias sent me this pic of an old German globe toy. You can have some fun trying to work out the age of this globe from the names of the countries in Africa. “The globe is in German. What’s surprising here is that it useshistorical borders. You see Namibia is […]