The best available maps and related material culture. If I missed anything good please reach out.
The best available maps and related material culture. If I missed anything good please reach out.
Clément Aubry creates very, ah, French illustrations styled as pitch-perfect topos.
Tactile Craftworks etches detailed maps into leather clutches, journals and flasks, trimming the edges to match coastlines.
Artist Austin Brown uses an elevation model to 3D print a mold, casts a state’s detailed topography in cement, then mounts it in a black or white 13x13" frame.
John Tauranac walked every block in Manhattan to create his detailed NYC pedestrian guides.
Daniel Huffman makes hand-dyed sun-printed cyanotypes on Awagami unbleached paper.
New World Cartography: South Carolina cartographer Travis Folk’s watercolor maps, embellished with native fauna.
Cameron Booth designs original transit maps and picks good old ones to reprint.
Praire Heart Maps: Alex McPhee’s 6 -foot maps of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Place Value Pottery: textured map mugs by Malaika Tolford.
The Melbourne Map: colorful meter-wide illustrated maps of Melbourne and the Bellarine Peninsula.
Matthew Dean Shaffer: bird's-eye maps of Pittsburgh, New Haven, Lewisburg, Auckland.
Jug Cerović: 50+ original transit maps of the world’s major cities.
Anna Eshelman illustrated this 11x14" nighttime map of the Wonderland Trail around Mt. Rainier; it’s a real kind of map that can make you feel a noseful of 6° air.
Leonie Schlosser makes high-craft maps of France with vectors, rasters, inks, watercolors, acrylics, glazes, fired clay. Best living cartographer.
Arborist and artist Reynold Mackey drops a tree, lathes a 45-lb wooden sphere, then spends three years carving an accurate physiographic globe. He uses a dremel and dental picks to chip seamounts, ridges, ranges, drainages, all so fine you can find your favorite kettle lake with a magnifying glass.
Marine Le Breton draws swirling ink-and-watercolor nautical maps of the French coast: buildings, roads, cliffs, ranges, aids to navigation.
Illustrator Mke Hall makes great reference maps: illustrations, hand-drawn relief, flawless type, every single inch gets full regard.
National Geographic cartographer Eric Knight creates five-foot-wide beautifully lit panoramas.
Loraine Rutt’s ceramic globes and maps, sculpted and painted in her London studio.
Sous le Soleil: cyanotypes of French vintage maps, mostly coastal areas.
Cheyenne Mallo: ceramic map bowls, mugs, flasks and custom tile backsplashes.
All Mapped Out: vintage maps printed on ceramic, cork-bottom coasters.
Lord of Maps: Isaac Dushku’s illustrated maps of all 50 states, the entire world, and a sweet mountain-themed board book.
Imus Geographics: Dave Imus’s magisterial wall map, the Essential Geography of the United States.
Mediaeval Mapmaker: Jesse Kennedy has drawn more than 500 themed maps.
Marvellous Maps: maps of Britain’s rude place names, folklore, fauna and more.
Roadside Secrets: illustrated maps of California’s hot springs and a guide to Highway 1.
Cam Ojeda: ink street maps of global cities.
Arne Rohweder: map umbrella...2,000 piece puzzle map of Switzerland...nice.
James Niehues: grab a ski area landscape painting as a print or postcard.
Digby Illustrations: illustrated aerial views of Irish coastlines and landmarks.
Manuscript Maps: Kevin Sheehan draws maps of distilleries, cities, and the moon with a nib pen.
Quail Lane Press features Michelle Snyder’s 30+ handmade letterpress maps and illustrations.
Get Maine cartographer Jane Crosen’s illustrated maps as prints, cards and dish towels; she even sells a cookbook.
Sophie Parr’s intricate pen portraits of cities include every house, most trees.
Alex Hotchin’s illustrated maps of Australian landforms, flora and fauna.
Bob Waldmire: Waldmire’s brother sells prints of the late, great cartographer’s work. Perfect for the Western home.
Crypto Cartography: Alex Burden’s ink maps of National Parks are available as prints and shirts.
The Cartographic Arts: Daniel Robinson’s detailed maps of England.
Jeff Murray: illustrated continent-scale perspective maps.
Dan Coe: colorful LIDAR-derived relative elevation map-portraits of rivers.
Bombora Maps: Grant Preller scouted and drew maps of Western Australia’s best surf spots.
Jeff Clark spent 18 months on a reference map of the WA/BC region.
Xplorer Maps: Chris Robitaille’s maps of national parks, states and more.
Geometer Steve Waterman’s "Butterfly" projection available in Pacific- and Atlantic-centered prints.
Guy’s Safari Maps: surf-themed maps of Southeast Asia and Australia.
There’s a years-long waitlist for a Sara Drake map but your patience will be rewarded.
Satellite Stitches: Danielle Currie turns satellite imagery into embroidered hoops.
Andrew Lynch created the most detailed track map of the New York City subway. Boston, Chicago available too.
Columbus Cartography: modern copperplate etchings turned into handmade prints.
Mapoteca: original illustrated maps of Argentina, South America and the world by 40+ artists.
Anton Thomas’s enormous colored pencil maps feature 1,000+ animal illustrations.
OrbisTerræ: Gaël Gaborel’s handcrafted 10-14" desk globes with watercolor relief and land cover.
Eleanor Lutz: Bio PhD, graphics editor, scientific illustrator, cartographer of earth and sky, what can’t she do?
Anthony Despalins creates imagined landscapes patterned after French 1:50k topos; DM him for a print.
Kate Tarling: commission a custom embroidered street map.
Alain Sauter and Cécile Blary make handmade plaster globes in Besançon, France; models on offer include the Earth, Moon and a celestial sphere with constellations, with sizes from 8" to 32".
Columbia Pressworks: maps stamped into copper sheets and saddle leather.
Turn of the Centuries: Kirsten Sparenborg’s detailed watercolor street maps of U.S. cities.
Has your heirloom globe seen better days? Expert restorer Yolaine Voltz can freehand gores, match century-old varnishes, and give it a new life.
An incomplete list by cartographer Evan Applegate. No affiliate links, just stuff I like, hope you buy something, if I missed something good please reach out.
