Kingfisher

The Dormidots Tiny Atlas is officially live. 🗺️✨ 51 hand-drawn ACEO map prints featuring all 50 states + Washington DC, created as part of the Dormidots collection. These are available at www.studio6101.com

I've done a bad job keeping in touch with my longtime colleagues at Axis Maps since leaving a few years ago, but it's nice to see that they've found some time to update the website with the good work they've been up to! www.axismaps.com/projects

The flowing blue🩵 #animal #animalart #birdart #bird #illustration #digitalart #originalart #kingfisher

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

I found that grey is great for visualisation, while doing visualization I prefer gray.

Queenfisher 🪶 6x6" Gouache on Watercolor Paper Art from my time up at the cabin in September, I really want to do more birds like this :)

Lovely map of French castles by Jean-Claude Golvin. Which one to visit first?

#KPopDemonHunters #PopVsSoda

Cincinnati in 50 Maps, by Nick Swartsell and me, is off to the printer, so you can get your pre-orders in now for the December launch! beltpublishing.com/products/cin... Get this, folks: I counted and there are 125 individual maps. That's 75 extra maps for free!

Map of Europe during the most recent Ice Age (the last glacial maximum) - 20,000 years ago. Made with ArcGIS, Photoshop, Illustrator & Blender. Raw image is roughly 12K in size. #geology #paleoart #sciart #GIS #maps ( #PrehistoricPlanet !!whoo)

Kingfisher hunting for fish in the water Ohara Koson (1877-1945)

The list is by no means exhaustive, HOPs, horizon charts and I'm sure other charts can be and have been used to show distributions. But attached is a handy one pager to summarize all the methods discussed here

YOOOO my talk at @nacis.bsky.social has been accepted and it looks like I'll be making 2025 a Triple Conference Year. Folks are so curious about The Map Center and I honestly love telling the story over and over and over again. See you in Louisville!

Finished! “Jellyfish” 20” x 41 1/2” Stained glass all careful cut by hand and lovingly adhered to an upcycled wood skimboard. Ready to hang on a wall. (Available for purchase.) #mosaic #art #annemarieprice

Finished a several year long project - a Axis Maps style typographic map of Chiang Mai, Thailand. Done in both English and Thai.

Cutting apart old maps, discontinued currency, and flags, Faith XLVII sews them back together into patterned tapestries. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/fait...

Karen Wynn Fonstad, was a Wisconsin cartographer who created dozens of maps that went into "The Atlas of Middle-earth," the official geographic guide to the worlds of author J.R.R. Tolkien: "The Hobbit" and The Lord of the Rings." A new quest: to digitize her original maps, and find an archive.

The 2025 NACIS Annual Meeting will be in Louisville, KY, Oct 15-18! We invite you to submit abstract proposals for presentations in the Main Conference or Practical Cartography Day or to organize specialty themed sessions, discussion panels, workshops and field trips. Submissions due May 15, 2025.

The Seventh Seal, directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1957, 📸 of @wemby by @johnhateclub

I randomly found it, but W.E.B. Du Bois once provided a pronunciation guide to his last name (per the Du Bois Freedom Center)

A favorite recent project: Peakscapes. I love the layered looks you get in the #mountains, and I always want to be able to name everything in view. These designs provide a cleaner, more idealized view of the landscape than a photo can. Are they #maps? Or geographic art? I'm not sure.

#30DayMapChallenge Jour28/ Day28 - Planète bleue / Bonne journée de la Méditerranée

Day 26 of the #30DayMapChallenge - Projections I made this for @pinakographos.bsky.social projections card set. Such a great project.

The Independent Map Artists now has a website: mapartists.org! It's a hub for you to find all sorts of posters, shirts, and other gifts for the map nerds in your life. Many of us sell in our own small shops, but we're stronger together. Spread the word!

Here’s a recent-ish thing that I didn’t post here at the time: I helped Kirk Goldsberry design this globe basketball, puzzling through map projections to get something close to matching each of the eight segments on the ball. A bit more about it here: andywoodruff.com/posts/2024/a...

Wendy Shijia is wizarding again. "Experimenting with the #DeepPaint addon in #Blender to 'paint' a landscape - coloring a 3D model of landscape generated from USGS lidar point cloud data." www.linkedin.com/posts/wendys...

This is art.

Marie-Thérèse, Face and Profile, by Pablo Picasso, 1931, 📸 by @reginaldthomas - Reginald is one of my absolute favorite hoops photographers - truly embracing Sports & Art - and I strongly encourage you to check out his work (@reginaldthomas on instagram - link isn’t working for some reason)

#30DayMapChallenge | Day 5 | Journey A poem I made for the @nacis.bsky.social map quilt. A Journey Of Celebration Mountain Maple an Old Bonsai Children A Valley Sunrise Gethseman A Bent Tree The Birch, Alder, & Juniper a Common Truth