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Monumental Ballpoint Pen Portraits Are Rendered on Vintage Collateral by...
All images © Mark Powell, shared with permission From his Brighton-based studio on the seafront, Mark Powell (previously) pieces together crinkled book pages and postcards laden with travel dispatches....
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Shaped Using Precisely Cut Maps, Nikki Rosato’s Busts and Portraits Connect...
All images © Nikki Rosato, shared with permission Through mesh busts and delicate portraits, Nikki Rosato visualizes the connections between place and identity. The Washington, D.C.-based artist carves...
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Contemporary Elevation Data and Historical Maps Merge in Scott Reinhard’s...
1966 Allen’s Creek, Indiana. All images © Scott Reinhard, shared with permission By day, Scott Reinhard designs graphics for The New York Times. Recently, he created a United States map detailing where...
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A Trio of Visual Catalogs Celebrates the Innovative Figures Who Pioneered...
Emma Willard, Temple of Time. Courtesy of Information Graphic Visionaries and David Rumsey Map Collection A new book set honors the lives and legacies of three figures who fundamentally altered the way...
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Urban Landscapes Merge with Intricately Rendered Figures in Ed Fairburn’s...
“Plymouth.” All images © Ed Fairburn, shared with permission Along the contours of roads, property boundaries, and shorelines, English artist Ed Fairburn draws inspiration for his detailed...
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Boldly Contrasted Maps by Spencer Schien Visualize Population Density Data
All images © Spencer Shien, shared with permission It’s one thing to know that Chicago is the third largest city in the United States or that the fastest growing metropolitan areas are in the West and...
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Travel the World Through the Bizarre and Unexpected Sights of ‘Wonders of...
All images via Google Street View A man with three legs, a vintage car scaling a building, and an unsettling formation of people donning bird masks are a few of the scenarios highlighted in the...
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Page Through a 19th-Century Embossed U.S. Atlas Designed with Touchable...
Maine, Atlas of the United States, Printed for the Use of the Blind (1837). All images via David Rumsey Map Associates About a decade after French educator Louis Braille invented the eponymous system...
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Maps, Everyday Ephemera, and Watercolor Drawings Record José Naranja’s...
All images © José Naranja, shared with permission Rather than scrolling through photos from a recent trip, José Naranja (previously) remembers his travels through exceptionally detailed sketchbooks...
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Lidar-Derived Aerial Maps Reveal the Dramatic Meandering Changes in River...
Lidar-derived image of the meandering Alabama River in Alabama, USA. The Cahaba River joins the Alabama in the upper center of the image. All images © Dan Coe, shared with permission Dan Coe...
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Faith XLVII Engages Humanity’s Shadows Through the Delicate Interplay of...
“A Study of Light and Shadow V.” All images © Faith XLVII, shared with permission Artist Faith XLVII (previously) describes a recent body of work as “a kind of scratching into the chiaroscuro of our...
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More than 1,600 Hand-Drawn Animals Roam the Earth in Anton Thomas’s ‘Wild...
All images © Anton Thomas, shared with permission Taking three years from start to finish, Anton Thomas’s meticulously detailed map takes us on a zoological journey around the globe. “I’ve imagined...
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Ryan Villamael’s Cascading Floral Sculptures Reconsider Maps and Identity
“Locus Amoenus.” All images courtesy of Silverlens, Manila/New York, shared with permission Gathered in bunches and trailing like vines, Ryan Villamael’s paper-cut sculptures cascade through niches of...
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Mark Powell’s Pen Drawings Accentuate the Memories Etched into Faces and...
All images © Mark Powell, shared with permission In Mark Powell’s tender portraits, crinkled eyes and foreheads creased with age mirror highways and scrawled cursive notes. The artist (previously)...
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Glass Sculptures by Norwood Viviano Cast Iconic City Skylines Atop Emblems of...
“I find myself looking at the world as a surveyor—telling stories through objects,” says Norwood Viviano, whose kiln-cast glass sculptures map iconic city skylines through each location’s recognizable...
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