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Works of Art inspired by maps or map-like imagery.
a map of the town of Guildford (England) in 1739. A gorgeous example of what it looks like when food grows everywhere: The hospital has huge vegetable gardens, the School has an orchard…it appears that this town was totally self-sustaining agriculturally, as were many of the time.
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In 1997 the French choreographer Daniel Larrieu invited William Forsythe to make a new piece for his company. Forsythe was too busy, so his solution was to make a dance communicated entirely by fax, and translated into movement by the dancers themselves. Hypothetical Stream is derived from a series of Tiepolo pereparatory drawings over which a hieroglyphic of lines and numbers has been scribbled. Dancers love to work with this kind of freedom.
A space plan for Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace, 1958. The drawing contains the idea for the whole piece: six dancers, six entrances, each dancer will make all 21 possilbe crossings of the space using 21 different kinds of movement phrasing. The order of events was derived from chance operations.
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A page from the notebook of choreographer Rosemary Butcher, showing preparatory time and space drawings for her 1999 piece scan. Rough notes like these help visualise texture and keep track of the process.
Choreographic Map for RED, YELLOW, BLUE JoAnna Mendl Shaw
Ernest Hèbrard and Hendrik Christian Andersen, World City of Communications, 1913-14 (Source)
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lubec-campobello island-composite mapping: As part of an architectural documentation class, I created a map that describes a site that I was studying for studio. It explores the idea that a map can be descriptive of experience, emotion, and the power that it holds to be an empathetic representation of place. It is about going beyond the objective description of information that is typical of a conventional map. This map acted as a catalyst that helped inform my design.
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:: Rug - "Paris les rues", the nought collective ::
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Sachigusa Yasuda's 'Aerial' Exhibition Mixes Meditation And Thrills
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David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | Atlas for The Blind 1837 / via Robin Sloan
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world's first geological map, Great Britain, 1815
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0saka. @shaunaleelange - fabulous visual curators.
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Jennifer Maravillas. She's a freckled pixie VCU alum from the Eastern suburban milds of Virginia Beach that's been gracefully transplanted to the Western wilds of San Francisco. She's an artist, adventurer and gatherer of neighborhood detritus. She has, amongst other things, created the visually striking colorful maps posted here in this blog and is soon to be the creative force behind the next print edition of this site, Gungho Guides.
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California by Bhaval Shah Bell.
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Stephen Walter’s Map Of Subterranean London
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Alicia Merrett I have a tea-towel with a section of Stephen Walter's map of London, "The Island" - I bought it at the British Library in London, where they had the original map on display during their "Magnificent Maps" exhibition a couple of years ago. I don't use it as a tea-towel though - it just adorns a corner of my studio. The area of London where I used to live is depicted there. It is the most brilliant piece of work!
Valerie Goodwin I am envious Alicia...love it!
Helen McCormack this map will be shown at the London Transport Museum Map exhibition this summer. I also saw the British Library's exhibition on maps but missed the chance at getting a tea towel! I will make sure to get some reproductions of this one at the exhibition this summer, can't wait!
Woodcut map of Amsterdam - the block, not print
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A Mind-Blowing Map Of Energy Consumption In Every Single NYC Building...Valerie, I can't see a map and not think of you :)
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7 mile trail walk in tenafly with letterboxing!
12 x 12 Blog, Map quilt by Deborah Boschert
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Manhattan 40" x 40" mixed media on floating aluminum panel
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World Mapping: A collection of hand-drawn maps detailing personal geographies. JS / 25 Hagerstown MD - Nashville TN A collection of hand-drawn maps detailing personal geographies Participants in the project receive a postcard. Instructions printed on the card direct them to draw a map of the world on the reverse of every place they have been, varying size and detail depending upon each place's
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Map of the California Botanic Garden, as envisioned by its planners. Note that the Occidental College campus depicted here never materialized. Courtesy of the California Historical Society Collection, USC Libraries.
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Valerie Goodwin from kcet.org
Map Made from Recycled Computers by Susan Stockwell
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David Maisel. Terminal Mirage 5
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Richard Diebenkorn--City Scape
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angelo m Love his work! Remember seeing a huge show of his in NYC a decade ago.
Sketchy Bic map by Vizzuality
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To provide context for the first walks on the moon by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, NASA provides us with a map of the Sea of Tranquility superimposed over a baseball diamond.
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ARCHITECTURAL PATTERN BOOK, COMBINING COSMOLOGICAL DIAGRAMS WITH A GUIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF TEMPLES AND STUPAS, INCLUDING THE DRAWING OF THE GREAT STUPA IN KATMANDU
figure ground:Two students from NC State have recently hatched a great t-shirt company, Wear You Live, featuring figure-ground diagrams of 15 major US cities screen-printed on comfy shirts. Kick ass. (via ok great)
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Alicia Merrett Great!
Alicia Merrett great!