{"id":5774,"date":"2014-04-14T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/04\/art_and_personal_mapmaking\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T17:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T22:00:45","slug":"art_and_personal_mapmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/04\/art_and_personal_mapmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Art and Personal Mapmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Book<\/a>\"Book<\/a><\/p>\n

Two books (well, one is sort of book-ish<\/em>) related to map art and personal cartography to tell you about:<\/p>\n

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  1. Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel<\/a><\/em> by Jill K. Berry and Linden McNeilly (Quarry Books<\/a>, 5\/14): “map-related activities set into weekly exercises, beginning with legends and lines, moving through types and styles, and then creating personalized maps that allow you to journey to new worlds.”<\/li>\n
  2. Make Map Art: Creatively Illustrate Your World<\/a><\/em> by Nate Padavick and Salli Swindell (Chronicle Books<\/a>, 2\/14), a “creative toolkit” that includes a booklet and 30 pull-out sheets to use as templates for personal mapmaking projects.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Jill Kelly’s previous work, Personal Geographies: Explorations in Mixed-Media Mapmaking<\/a><\/em>, was reviewed here in 2011<\/a>\u00a0[Fuck Yeah Cartography<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Two books (well, one is sort of book-ish) related to map art and personal cartography to tell you about: Map Art Lab: 52 Exciting Art Explorations in Mapmaking, Imagination, and Travel by Jill K. Berry… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,250],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-5774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","category-mapping-the-personal","tag-books","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5942,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2014\/11\/gift-guide-map-books-of-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":5774,"position":0},"title":"Gift Guide: 10 Map Books of 2014","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 November 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year, at about this time of year, I assemble a gift guide listing some of the noteworthy books about maps that have been published over the previous year. 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