Some of them, like Brooklyn Charm, had been there for over a decade. I will be delivering their maps to them this week as a bittersweet memory of what was. “Sadly, I have recently discovered that a handful of the businesses on The Great Map of Williamsburg have closed due to COVID. “My printer closed their doors for a few months just as my order went in,” Russell said of his map, which went to print right as the coronavirus halted New York’s spring. As a restaurant owner in Greenpoint, it was to draw attention to everything this great little area had to offer.” His follow-up, the Great Map of Williamsburg (above), ran straight into the pandemic, as Greenpointers reports: It was begun, he says, “as an effort to drive business around the neighborhood.
Last October, Alex Russell released his first pictorial map of a Brooklyn neighbourhood, the Great Map of Greenpoint.
The atlas is projected to ship in October 2021. Very much a nationalist project-and a personal project as well, which is not how atlases are usually done nowadays, hand-drawn or not. By returning to map-making in pen and ink, and by retelling the story of Scotland’s history and culture, this Atlas aims to delve deeper into the fabric of the land and reveal one of the world’s oldest nations in a whole new light. Produced as a visually striking hardback book, combining text with illustrated maps, the Atlas will shed new light on Scotland’s size and resources, its cultural and political history, as well as its long standing as one of the ancient kingdoms of Europe and the richness of its international connections.Īs satellite images replace traditional paper atlases, modern technology leaves us with an incomplete picture of the nation. Tags Anton Thomas, pictorial maps A Crowdfunded, Hand-drawn Atlas of ScotlandĪrtist and writer Andrew Barr is crowdfunding for what he is calling “the first major Scottish atlas for over 100 years”: a hand-drawn, hardcover Atlas of Scotland:.
Pictorial map update#
Previously: The North American Continent: A Pictorial Map by Anton Thomas An Update on Anton Thomas’s Map of North America Preorders Open for Anton Thomas’s North America Map. The map uses the Natural Earth projection. While, I hope, drawing attention to the beauty and fragility of the natural world.Īs of this month, Thomas has finished North America and has moved on to South America he expects to be finished by the middle of next year (which is a lot faster than his first map, which took more than five years). Paired with the labels, this allows the map to be a powerful resource for learning Earth’s basic geography. The hundreds of different animals can evoke a feeling of place like few things can. From mountain ranges to deserts, rivers to rainforests, the labels here offer a detailed, accurate outline of Earth’s natural geography. While you won’t find cities or borders on this map, you will find geographic labels. Here’s what Anton Thomas, whose pictorial map of North America was released earlier this year, is working on now: Wild World, a pictorial map of the natural world.
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