Urban imagery by T.N. Architecture (Thien K. Nguyen) “The narrative cities are explorations into urban systems that are stretched and morphed by narratives into absurdities. Each contains a story...
Sketched on a sticky note and posted to Twitter and Instagram, the “map of every city” quickly became a viral sensation as people read their own locations onto this wonderful work of subjective cartography. Designed by artist Chaz Hutton, the drawing is not really a map as such, but it does feature elements we recognize from maps.
Simplicity in representation of urban plans always works. This is an example, a Stockholm overview plan showing the extension taken for the city from then about have past forty years from primitive...
El urbanismo y la movilidad van unidos de la mano
Held in 1933 on a ship in the Mediterranian, the fourth CIAM congress and Le Corbusier's subsequent Athens Charter (La Charte d'Athenes) are widely...
Indispensable design lessons from one of the oldest forms of graphic design.
This tutorial aims to help GIS users to get started with Python programming for QGIS 3. In contrast to many tutorials out there, the idea is to not assume any previous programming knowledge. If you…
Artist Matthew Rangel hikes cross-country and through the mountains, exploring and drawing along the way. He then mixes his drawings with maps and photos from history for unique results and perspec…
@Uncube Larissa Fassler's psychogeographic cartographies
Hand drawn city map of Raalte (called after some Dutch town). The city is situated on two rivers, on of them being an affluent, ending in the other. It's drawn as a city as it could have grown in multiple centuries: city center, former bastions, station close to the river side, apparment buildings from the 70s and newer neighbourhoods surrounding the city. In a word: a very European city. Why it is called Raalte? Well, I just like place names ending on -e and after having made up twenty of them, I started to run out of own names, so started using real place names. 2011.
The Star today published a cover story (Beyond Density) in their Condos section on the efforts in Mississauga to create a more vibrant and pedestrian-friendly downtown – key among the problems identified has been the large scale of the block patterns in Mississauga – to prove the point the article includes urban form/fabric drawings ofContinue reading "Urban fabric/form comparison"
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Mind the Map, a new collection of artwork published by Gestalten, shows the skill, humour and care involved in map design, including one depicting New York’s smells, and a meticulously hand-painted ski map
Indispensable design lessons from one of the oldest forms of graphic design.
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Pilsens story is one of struggle and triumph: recently arrived immigrants struggling to navigate a foreign, often unwelcoming new land; factory workers struggling for a livable wage and an eight-hour day, even in the face of violent suppression; neighbors struggling to make their streets safe, their schools respectable, their air clean enough to breathe, and their homes secure.
(written and illustrated by Paulina Naruseviciute. ). “‘Think of the world that does not exists’” is published by paulina naras.
Urban lighting standards require designers to think about utility and sustainability. Here’s the virtuous example of Antwerp.
In my constant search for new kinds of maps to draw, I've been experimenting with adding watercolor to my maps. It's very coloring-book right now, but I am hoping to try some watercolor washes as well. I do like the way that it shows the different geographic elements. The first experimental map: and a large 9x12 map in progress:
Esto que pareciera una pintura de la vanguardia europea es en realidad la propuesta (no ganadora) de la OMA para el plan maestro de Melun Senart a finales de los ochenta. El plan para esta ville...
Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints communicate his thoughtful explorations of mountainous territories made through cross-country hikes, interviews and pictures. Rangel's works reveal how...
@Uncube Larissa Fassler's psychogeographic cartographies
