This is a great project on mapping the history and narratives of a journey/terrain. A sort of map that is more interesting than the territory that Houellebecq proposed.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=k&om=1&msid=103763259662194171141.000001119b4b42bf062c2&msa=0
Looking to use video and record data on a journey, much like Stephen Shore has done on his journey's across america but only through photography. Just multimedia and more forms of it. I'd like to merge the projects Poetry Atlas & History Pin and maybe this atlascine.org that I recently saw but not just Canada.
See http://artcarto.wordpress.com/cartography-narratives/ for more about Story Maps.
More about the project 'Jay Crim and Shekar Davarya spent the summer of 2002 driving across the country on Route 66, collecting interviews with the people who live, work and travel on the old road. The audio, video and images on this map are the result of that summer, and offer a glimpse into what life was like on the now-decommissioned highway and what remains for those who still travel the road. The America's Highway project was intended to create both a history lesson on America of the past as well as a travel guide for visitors on 66 today. The work was supervised by Professor Bill Leslie, History of Science Department and Mike Reese, Center for Educational Resources, The Johns Hopkins University.'
Route 66 Story Map
Mapping Derby
Do you have a photograph of a place in Derby? Then upload it to here http://mappingderby.com/, have it geotagged, printed and added to this brilliant, low-fi, photographic map of derby.
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FORMAT needs your help to Map Derby. Throughout FORMAT Festival we will be asking Derby visitors and residents to photograph the city streets under the theme of ‘Right Here, Right Now’. Each photograph will be uploaded and geo-tagged to create a unique map of the city. Give us your thoughts, memories and inspirations of the city.
There will be a growing installation in The Royal Insurance Buildings, 2 The Strand, Derby where a 3D map of the city will grow day by day.' http://mappingderby.com/
Ok, its not completely low fi they use a lovely printer called a poga printer that uses paper that has the ink inside it so no need to replace cartridges, apparently £8.99 for about 70 sheets (I realise I sound like I just discovered apps for the first time). But I love the pins and pictures relating to that area on a lovely a3 enalrging, hockney-joiner, A-to-Z photocopies that arent quite as smooth as google street view but I think adds to its charm and beauty with the handmade approach.
I also love that pins go off the map into unchartered terrains and only the photographs are the evidence of it. It is wierd for an exhibition to be on woodchip wallpaper I must admit and i suppose the only thing I didnt like was that the map had gaps because of the walls, couldnt orientate myself, not that i'm that familiar with Derby, but maybe i'm being picky. They have tried to adapt a space to present this project and the online digital geo-tagged images on a google map are great.
Format Festival was excellent too, with collaborations on projects with Magnum.
http://www.formatfestival.com/
Cartographic Shapes
this is a great application for facebookm, called Geo Challenge. helps you learn your countries/geography starting off with just the shape and fading in the ajoining/nearby countries to help you realise the paticularly country. they have a round for flags, and cities (usually guessing myself) placing where they are on the world map.
great game and great tool for learning. it helps me with my pathetic knowledge of world geography/cities, although i'm not that bad at flags.
also look at this noisy britain - ben terret excellant post by strange maps.
Mobile Phone Drawing Maps
Landlines is a multi-user collaborative drawing tool for GPS enabled mobile phones, in which users draw by moving in real space.
Mapper allows you to see routes as live drawings, in collaboration with other users. This is the application that they use for exhibitions and workshops.They have concentrated on the drawn quality of the line, keeping the whereabouts of users anonymous, and on the resulting map like drawings gradually revealing a place.
Map of Carnaby Street
Map of Carnaby Street, Soho, London
Originally uploaded by Fredrik73
It has wonderful curved, clean edges with subtle pastel colours for the different categories of shops to aid efficient thinking and finding info. the grey's provide a soft contrast emphasising the bright pastel colours with still room for info of the nearest tubes all harmonised in this unifying circle. it still has room inside it to depict an upper and lower floor plan.
Great visual map for london soho.
Oxfam Tube Map
Final Piece
Originally uploaded by louise lynn
Visualising Oxfams work poster by louise lynn imitating the ever brilliant Beck Tube map. great idea, clean, colourful, like that there are no destinations, no limits to them. nice parchment, good design.
'This was the design chosen by Oxfam to use in their Liverpool Bold Street store. Will get a photo of that up soon when I get it off my Nan X).Displayed in exhibition 'A Window Into Oxfam' in Liverpool Central Library's Picton Room'.
More info here
New York Times Key Magazine Cover
Note that I dont have an obsession with New York at the moment, but with such great art foundations of Rauschenberg, DeKooning & Pollock its no surprise of its creative vein. Today technology is the key that has fused creativity & opened boundaries to allow interdisciplinary practice.
The New York Times real estate magazine Key started with the cover design concept of hiring people that are brilliant to do personal interpretations of what a key means to them & their lives. The 1st cover in the Fall 2006 by Carin Goldberg featured all the places she lived at using the font Dynamoe (green & black thumbnail) & spring 2007 (yellow & purple thumbnail) was designed by new york design studio 2x4.
In dialogue with John Maeda (author of Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation) art director Dick Barnett looked at some of Maeda's sketches and replied to him saying how he's 'loving #3 Google Mappish Mondrian' (3rd thumbnail along) idea and how he might 'think of a way to make it more personal to [maeda's] life'. Maeda responded utilising Boston, he states how he 'thinks of the world as a sort of map of cities', a topographic territory, he 'mined the internet for all the cities with an airport' & made a simple diagram and then drew some 'fluid like curves [framing] to connect into the centre of the keyhole' (4th thumbnail), (Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
Maeda wanted to concentrate on the background rather than the foreground & after some design processing (problem solving) such as replacing fonts used to that of Key magazines T-Star, it was finished. The design is brilliant, although probably not that easy a task to create without access/stroke knowledge of computer science functionality but excellant aesthetics. The overall white stands out from the blue (a colour normally percieved as depiciting sea in maps) causing a slight incongruity on part of the viewer, map reader/user. Boston being the epicentre of travel in this map providing the key access to other cities and the viral red linking lines spidering the topgraphic locations.
Excellant Map utilising technology to visualise data functionality mentioned upon with Bradford Paley, in the heart of its design.
'John Maeda is an artist and a computer scientist, and he views the computer not as a substitute for brush and paint but as an artistic medium in its own right. His mission is to foster the growth of what he calls 'humanist technologists'- people that are capable of articulating future culture through informed understanding of the technologies they use' (http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/maeda.html, 2008, p. john maeda interview).
More examples of the stages of Maeda's Key Cover design here, http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/09/06/realestate/keymagazine/20070909_KEY_COV_SS_index.html
Creative Review. New York. Centaur Publication, 2007, p. nov – 42).
London Kerning
This is a fantastic typographic exploration of type's place within the visual world of the capital. This map won a design award from Aiga and London Design. The information is taken from AZ street maps where the icons, symbols and hard lines representing churches, streets, rivers and parks have been removed from the map, leaving only letters. It is interesting to see Geography and Creative Graphic Design combine as opposed to the separation they seem to have followed. It is a fantastic and visually inspiring/innovative typographic map of London’s street names.
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