Map Art Lab
52 Exciting Art Explorations in Map Making, Imagination, and Travel
Published on 1. May 2014
144 pages
978-1-62788-031-2 (ISBN)
Description
A refreshing source of ideas to help you explore all aspects of maps, this book encourages you to travel through the exciting world of cartography. It features 52 fun and creative map-related activities set into weekly artistic exercises.
Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.
Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Lab is the perfect book for map lovers, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises.
Everyone loves maps. And what's not to love? They are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine.
Travel through the exciting world of cartography with Map Lab. This fun and creative book features 52 map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.
Authors Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly guide readers through useful concepts while exploring colorful, eye-catching graphics. The labs can be used as singular projects or to build up to a year of hands-on creative experiences. Map Lab is the perfect book for map lovers, creative/DIY-inspired, designers. Artists of all ages and experience levels can use this book to explore enjoyable and engaging exercises.
Everyone loves maps. And what's not to love? They are beautiful and fascinating, they teach you things, they show you where you are, places you long to go, and places you dare to imagine.
Reviews / Votes
"Creative cartographers, here's a way to keep yourself mapping for months. Make a topographic map of your nose. Use string to weave your latitude and longitude. Orient yourself with your own compass rose. What better way to find yourself? Every art teacher should have a copy of this book." - Katharine Harmon, Author, You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination and The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore CartographyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
File size
40,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-62788-031-2 (9781627880312)
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Jill K. Berry | Linden McNeilly
Map Art Lab
52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel
Book
05/2014
Quarry Books
€24.00
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Persons
Jill K. Berry is an author, teacher, and artist living in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Her first book, Personal Geographies: Explorations of Mixed-Media Mapmaking, was published in 2011. She thought it would be fun to invite her sister Linden to explore the second book together, and the two developed Map Art Lab. Jill returned to books with Making Art from Maps. She makes artists' books, paintings, maps, and other storytelling structures, and her work has been publisehd in many books and magazines. She teachers her techniques worldwide.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Unit No 01: Map Basics
- Lab 01: Orient Yourself
- Lab 02: Compass Rose
- Lab 03: Legends
- Lab 04: Creating Sea Monsters
- Lab 05: Creative Cartouches
- Lab 06: Neatlines
- Lab 07: Scale Your Bedroom
- Lab 08: Topo Your Nose
- Unit No 02: Map Magic
- Lab 09: Geo Paper 1: Flying over Kansas
- Lab 10: Geo Paper 2: Dripping Ink Streets
- Lab 11: City Blocks in Plastic and Wax
- Lab 12: String Up Longs and Lats
- Lab 13: Stencil Maps
- Lab 14: Transparent Layer Map
- Lab 15: Mother Nature's Maps
- Featured Fun: Pop-Ups and Folded Maps
- Unit No 03: Flat Maps
- Lab 16: Zentangle® Your Vacation
- Lab 17: Journaling One-Liners
- Lab 18: Story Maps
- Lab 19: Custom Constellations
- Lab 20: Map of Origins
- Lab 21: Word Map
- Lab 22: Use Google Maps to Map Your House
- Lab 23: The Road to Success
- Featured Mapper: Masako Kubo, stencil maps
- Unit No 04: Mixed-Media Maps
- Lab 24: Upcycled Adventures
- Lab 25: Hearth and Home
- Lab 26: Tea-Dyed Treasure Map
- Lab 27: Tessellating Tiles
- Lab 28: Personal Planets
- Lab 29: In Stitches
- Lab 30: Mosaic Map
- Featured Mappers: Navajo Nation High School
- Unit No 05: Personal Maps
- Lab 31: Map of You and Me
- Lab 32: Scroll Through Time
- Lab 33: Getting To Know You: Mapping Tables and Dorms
- Lab 34: Get Your Game On
- Lab 35: Heart Street Map
- Lab 36: Detours
- Lab 37: Collaborative Map Box
- Lab 38: Magical Places
- Featured Mappers: Burnaby Mountain Secondary School
- Unit No 06: Cartographic Projects
- Lab 39: Cartographic Collage with Peter Clark
- Lab 40: Personify a Place
- Lab 41: Puzzled Again
- Lab 42: Cartographic Jewelry
- Lab 43: The Ancient Mariner's Journal
- Lab 44: Cartographic Correspondence
- Lab 45: Cutout Maps
- Featured Mapper: Anne Marie Gee
- Unit No 07: Inspired by Artists
- Lab 46: Fantasy Neighbors
- Lab 47: Wired Up with Alexander Calder
- Lab 48: Gustav Klimt: A Village for Artists
- Lab 49: My Mondrian
- Lab 50: Lucky Earth with Corita Kent
- Lab 51: Barcelona with Miró
- Lab 52: Max's Map with Maira Kalman
- Resources
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- Copyright
