{"id":1809575,"date":"2022-10-28T11:45:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T15:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1809575"},"modified":"2022-10-28T19:44:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T23:44:18","slug":"david-nuttalls-maps-of-fictional-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/10\/david-nuttalls-maps-of-fictional-places\/","title":{"rendered":"David Nuttall’s Maps of Fictional Places"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Nuttall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Geofiction involves creating imaginary worlds through maps\u2014maps of fictional places, but without the story attached\u2014and David Nuttall<\/a> has been at it since the age of five. He says he\u2019s gotten better since then (his gallery<\/a>, sorted by medium: see if he\u2019s right). One of his maps is featured<\/a> in the new (6th) volume<\/a> of the NACIS<\/abbr> Atlas of Design<\/em><\/a>; Nat Case writes about it here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

David\u2019s maps do wear the sorts of stylistic suits of clothes \u201cregular\u201d referential maps use. They studiously use stylesheets from particular eras and schools of cartography. And the \u201cplaces\u201d mapped, like most historical fiction, has strong roots in actual geographies. The patterns of settlement and transportation, the way landforms relate to one another: David knows his stuff. And so this map, \u201cKjempsavor Ayars,\u201d<\/em> looks like the Faeroes \u2026 and the Shetlands, the Outer Hebrides, or the islands of Norway. And the map artwork looks a lot like a kind of map-making from the early mid-20th century, where old schools of hand-lettering and drafting met an ever-more-engineered modern world. But, and this is such a puzzle to know what to do with: It\u2019s not actually of anywhere. There\u2019s no stories to back you up about this bridge or that ferry route, the Viking history of that settlement or the modern fishing industry at that port. It suggests there ought to be a history like that, but it unexpectedly leaves you with that job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Atlas of Design<\/em>, vol. 6, costs $25 and can be bought here<\/a>; David\u2019s shop is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Geofiction involves creating imaginary worlds through maps\u2014maps of fictional places, but without the story attached\u2014and David Nuttall has been at it since the age of five. 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