The best maps and related material culture you can buy. If I missed anything good please reach out.
Eshelman hand-paints and letters her maps, including this one of Mt. Rainier; like all great cartographers, she spends a lot of time on the land. That color; it’s a real kind of map that can make you feel a noseful of 6° air...
Schlosser makes high-craft maps of France with vectors, rasters, inks, watercolors, acrylics, glazes, fired clay. Best living cartographer.
Arborist and artist Reynold “Mac” Mackey drops a tree, has a neighbor turn the thickest part on a lathe to make a 45-lb solid sphere, then spends three years carving a detailed and accurate physiographic globe. His references are ~1:20m National Geographic Atlas topographic and bathymetric reliefs. He uses a dremel and dental picks to chip seamounts, ridges, ranges, drainages, so fine you can find your favorite kettle lake with a magnifying glass.
Swirling 28x39" ink-and-watercolor nautical maps of Brittany, buildings, roads, cliffs, ranges, aids to navigation.
Hall, an illustrator, first drew maps in his notebook to pass time as a gallery security guard. He posted them, mapped more, and now he has an agent to handle his deals. Hall revived the reference map: illustrations, hand-drawn relief, flawless type, every single inch gets full regard.
Five-foot beautifully lit panoramas by a National Geographic cartographer. Made with 3D software and perfectly draped.
Loraine Rutt’s miniature ceramic globes, fired and painted in London.
If you have $120k, they have the 4-foot hand-painted globe for you.
Michelle Snyder’s 30+ hand-drawn letterpress maps.
Maine cartographer’s hand-drawn maps on prints, cards and dish towels; she even sells a cookbook.
Sophie Parr’s intricate pen portraits of American cities include every house, most trees.
Hand-dyed sun-printed cyanotypes on Awagami unbleached paper.
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.
Alex McPhee’s 6-foot map of Alberta: the perfect gift for the western Canadian in your life.
A thickly-illustrated 5x4-foot map of North America that took him five years to finish.
Gaël Gaborel’s handcrafted 10-14" desk globes with watercolor relief and land cover.
Bio PhD, graphics editor, scientific illustrator, cartographer of earth and sky, what can’t she do?
Illustrator’s imagined maps patterned after French 1:50k topos; DM him for a print.
British cartographer Daniel Robinson also created the Cotwsold Discovery Trail.
A thickly-illustrated 5x4-foot map of North America that took him five years to finish.
Sophie Parr’s intricate pen portraits of American cities include every house, most trees.
Alex McPhee’s 6-foot map of Alberta: the perfect gift for the western Canadian in your life.
Kevin Sheehan’s beautifully-lettered ink maps of European cities; get a print or a puzzle.
Bio PhD, graphics editor, scientific illustrator, cartographer of earth and sky, what can’t she do?
Illustrator’s imagined maps patterned after French 1:50k topos; DM him for a print.