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Things I hope you want: this year’s typographic maps

12 December 2011 tagged axis maps, typography with 1 comment

Permit me one avaricious advertisement of a blog post this holiday season. We at Axis Maps have several new typographic city maps that have come out since the summer, and, well, we think they make super gifts. Here are the ones I haven’t mentioned on the blog before. Chicago letterpress: Two-color prints of the downtown […]

Mapping Flickr colors again. Better late than never.

7 September 2011 tagged Boston, color, flickr with 11 comments

About two years ago I picked up small side project that involved messing with geotagged Flickr photos to generate maps of the photographed colors of a landscape, and I liked the idea so much that I vowed to keep it up. So I did. With a short two year break in the middle. I came […]

More typographic city maps: Washington DC and New York

26 April 2011 tagged axis maps, typography with 5 comments

(This is pretty much cross-posted from the Axis Maps blog.) Just a quick promotional note in case I still have a remaining shred of dignity: a couple of weeks ago the fellas and I at Axis Maps launched a new store with two new typographic city maps. The Washington, DC map depicts most of the […]

I take my work slightly more seriously these days. Slightly.

8 April 2011 tagged flowchart, frivolous, gis with 6 comments

Title: GIS Class Assignment Artist: Andy (not pictured), age 24

Revenge of the Valentine’s Day map

14 February 2011 tagged Boston, gps, place, valentines day with 8 comments

A year ago I fired off a quick post with a world map in the Werner projection, which of course we all know is heart-shaped and the ultimate expression of love. In the hopes of establishing a stupid annual tradition, I wanted to do another map this year, and after concluding that simply projecting or […]

A personal map of 2010

2 January 2011 tagged Boston, gps, map projects with 14 comments

A number of year-end retrospective blog posts in map-related fields have appeared in the last week or so, and it’s been interesting to take stock of all the excellent work people did during 2010. I of course didn’t do anything worth mentioning; I just went places and mapped it all. Like I did last year, […]