Cupertino cartographer, designer and artist Nat Slaughter on using hardcore wildlife survey techniques to count squirrels with Jamie Allen, putting sound installations in shipping containers, the two years of shoe-leather data collection that went into his 5x2’ Central Park map, his desire to walk from Basel to the North Sea, how a one-hour deadline can have (occasionally) sublime results, and an 800-year-old map that feels like it was created yesterday. See Nat’s work at thesquirrelcensus.com

Central Park map: terrestrial
Central Park map: celestial
Squirrel Census 2012
Squirrel Census 2016
Squirrel Census 2019


George Colbert and Guenther Vollath’s map of Prospect Park
Vaux & Olmstead’s Central Park map
Egbert Viele’s Manhattan maps
Otto Sibeth’s Central Park map
John Cage
Iannis Xenakis
Nat’s made-in-45-minutes map
Eleanor Lutz
Yu Ji Tu: 1137 map of China
Grilli Type
Klim Type
Peutinger Table: map of Roman roads from 1200
Nina Bender
Catalogtree
Rudolf Leuzinger
Joost Grootens
Irene Stracuzzi
Anna van Westerstee Beek
Charles Minard
Eleanor Lutz
Eduard Imhof
Zürcher Verkehrsverbund transit maps
AJ Ashton
IGN
Japanese Coast Guard

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