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Very Expensive Maps

Very Expensive Maps


Very Expensive Maps

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Length:
45 episodes
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

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You get what you pay for: professional cartographer Evan Applegate interviews better cartographers. Listen to the best living mapmakers describe how they create worlds in pixels, ink, graphite, threads, film, paint, ceramic, wood and metal. For show notes and bonus content visit https://veryexpensivemaps.com
Language:
English
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Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 45 episodes

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Erick Ingraham: “I guess I gravitate towards difficulty.”

Colorado painter, illustrator and mapmaker Erick Ingraham on solving art directors’ pro...

29 minutes
Apr 30, 2024

Stephen Walter: “Maps are inherently political if they’re interesting.”

London artist and mapmaker Stephen Walter on two decades of drawing and painting “the s...

42 minutes
Feb 20, 2024

John Tauranac: “I seldom think macroscopically; I think microscopically.”

Manhattan writer and cartographer John Tauranac on his first maps of Midtown’s pedestri...

36 minutes
Dec 26, 2023

Andrew Middleton: “There’s something poetic about running a map store.”

In early 2023 GIS analyst and cartographer Andrew Middleton saw a tweet about Andy Nosa...

50 minutes
Dec 12, 2023

Lionel Portier: “What I'm trying to convey with my maps is the pleasure of seeing beautiful things.”

Lyonnais illustrator and designer Lionel Portier on a mapmaking career that spans 30 ye...

28 minutes
Dec 04, 2023

Isaac Dushku: “A map has to evoke a feeling of adventure or a feeling of home.”

Utah artist Isaac Dushku on how a map has to evoke either a feeling of adventure or a f...

38 minutes
Nov 27, 2023

Sam Usle: “Slowly but surely we’re starting to recover the built environment.”

Urbanist and illustrator Sam Usle on designing human-scale communities and rendering th...

46 minutes
Nov 20, 2023

Naomi Rosenberg: "Get out of your sighted bubble.”

Naomi Rosenberg, assistant director of the Media and Accessible Design Lab at San Franc...

33 minutes
Nov 13, 2023

Matthew Dean Shaffer: “My approach is to try and be as accurate as possible.“

New Haven architectural designer and artist Matthew Dean Shaffer on balancing accuracy ...

52 minutes
Oct 09, 2023

Jamshid Kooros: “These maps are based on walking, walking, walking.”

Arlington “reformed architect” and pictorial cartographer Jamshid Kooros discusses his ...

56 minutes
Oct 02, 2023