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Typographic maps II

2 November 2009 tagged typography with 8 comments

Time for a follow-up on a my short post about typographic maps nearly a year and a half ago. Maps made up of type are, as the kids say, the bee’s knees. As typography- and map-based designs are rather popular in general, more of these typography maps crop up every so often. Here’s another short […]

A subterranean bird’s-eye view

22 September 2009 tagged birds eye view, Boston, interesting maps, metro maps with 2 comments

I’m rather late to this party, but it’s worth another mention. A while ago Vanshnookenraggen (a.k.a. Andrew Lynch) heroically pored over materials in the Massachusetts State Transportation Library and posted a bunch of images of old Boston transit maps to a Flickr set. (He’s got the future covered too with FutureMBTA, an excellent round-up of […]

Magazine cover subway map awesome

5 August 2009 tagged Boston, metro maps, Washington with 2 comments

Still being enamored of subway maps, and either out of convenience or some sort of local bias that of the Boston system in particular (see for instance my pipe cleaner map or the “Tea Stop” menu), I nearly wet myself when I saw this magazine cover on newsstands. The cover for Boston magazine’s annual Best […]

Next stop deliciousness. Doors will open on both sides.

26 May 2009 tagged interesting maps, metro maps with Comments Off on Next stop deliciousness. Doors will open on both sides.

Forgive the crummy phone picture. Having been on a subway map kick for a while, and having yesterday fallen victim to an odd smoothie craving, it seemed right to snap this picture and post it here. This is the window of Boston Tea Stop in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s wordplay, see? You know […]

Sparkmaps?

16 March 2009 tagged books, interesting maps, sparklines with 2 comments

I’m catching up on some of the reading I meant to do a couple of years ago, when I was a geography/cartography student, beginning with the original intersection of urban geography, planning, and mental maps: Kevin Lynch’s The Image of the City (1960). The subject of the book aside, something cool here is what’s going […]

Cartohammered

4 March 2009 tagged frivolous with 2 comments

I’ve done maps as logos, maps as pipe cleaner art, and now this, which was a good gift from my sister: It’s a globe! That dispenses booze! It’s perfect storage for carto-fuel for those late-night side projects. I wish we’d had this in the office back in grad school; we’d at least have looked a […]