How to Make Hand-Drawn Maps
A Creative Guide with Tips, Tricks, and Projects
Published on 22. May 2018
192 pages
978-1-4521-7529-4 (ISBN)
Description
With wonderful examples and easy-to-follow instructions, this beautifully illustrated how-to book makes it simple and fun to create one-of-a-kind hand-drawn maps. Helpful templates, grids, and guidelines complement a detailed breakdown of essential cartographic elements and profiles of talented international map artists. From city maps and family trees to treasure maps, palmistry charts, platformgame maps, and more, the wide range of projects collected here will satisfy first-time cartographers as well as veteran mapmakers inspired by the popular map art trend.
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Helen Cann is an author, illustrator, and mapmaker. She lives in Brighton, England.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ABOUT THIS BOOK
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF MAPS
- FROM MAPS TO CARTOGRAPHY
- SECTION 1 MAP ANATOMY
- COMPASSES
- DRAWING A BASIC COMPASS ROSE
- SERIF LETTERING AND CURSIVE SCRIPT
- A NOTE ON CURSIVE SCRIPT
- SANS SERIF LETTERING
- THINGS TO TRY
- CARTOUCHES
- MAPPING A MESSAGE
- KEEPING THINGS CLEAR
- MAKE IT PERSONAL
- KEYS AND SYMBOLS
- BRINGING THE BASIC ELEMENTS TOGETHER
- A SIMPLE APPROACH
- TILLY
- SECTION 2 TYPES OF MAP
- MAKING MAPS WITH PICTURES
- A RICH HISTORY
- THINKING IN PICTURES
- PICTURING YOUR EXPERIENCE
- TEXT MAPS
- MAKE IT INFORMATIVE
- MAKE IT INFORMATIVE
- AXONOMETRIC MAPS
- HOW TO DRAW AN AXONOMETRIC CUBE
- NEGATIVE-SPACE MAPS
- CUTTING IT OUT
- INCORPORATING PATTERNS
- ARCHITECTURAL MAPS
- PLATFORM-GAME MAPS
- COMBINING THE OLD WITH THE NEW
- ABI DAKER
- SECTION 3 MAPS OF PLACES
- TRANSIT MAPS: GOING UNDERGROUND
- SUBVERTING THE SUBWAY
- PICTURES NOT WORDS
- TREE MAPS
- MAPPING HISTORY
- MAPPING THE CITY
- RIBBON MAPS
- OGILBY'S RIBBONS
- ANNOTATED MAPS
- STRETCHING THE IMAGINATION
- A VENETIAN EXPERIENCE
- DUNGEON MAPS
- TREASURE MAPS
- MYTHICAL SECRETS
- ANDREW DEGRAFF
- SECTION 4 MAPS OF IDEAS
- PHRENOLOGY MAPS
- THE ART OF PHRENOLOGY
- PALMISTRY MAPS
- SAYING IT IN PICTURES
- MODERN PALMISTRY
- MAPPING THE BODY
- KEEPING IT SIMPLE
- IMAGINARY INTERIORS
- MIND MAPS
- CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS
- MAPPING PEOPLE
- MAPPING LIVES
- THE HEART OF A CITY
- SENSORY MAPS
- MAPPING MOVIES AND FICTION
- USE YOUR IMAGINATION
- PLOTTING FILMS
- MAPPING FAMILIES: GENEALOGY CHARTS
- MAPPING THE FAMILY DIASPORA
- ANTOINE CORBINEAU
- SECTION 5 PROJECTS
- WEDDING MAPS
- THINGS TO CONSIDER
- TRAVEL JOURNALS
- VALENTINE'S DAY CARDS
- NEW ADDRESS CARDS
- SIZING THINGS UP
- BUSINESS CARDS
- MAP FOLDING
- MARIO ZUCCA
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- TEMPLATES
- CHRONICLE EBOOKS
