Hand-drawn Maps

Leave the laptops at home because Maptime SF is going analog - aka it's arts & crafts time!

Here's a list of inspiring maps from the masters, and fun hand-drawn map activities to get you started. Yay!

##Inspiration: Artists

• Aleksandra Mizielińska and Daniel Mizieliński's "highly illustrated maps full of detail and curiosities": http://www.bigpicturepress.net/our-books/maps/
• Paula Scher's colorful typographic maps: http://www.paulaschermaps.com/
• Masako Kubo's illustrated maps: http://www.masakokubo.co.uk/illustration/maps/
• Rebecca Solnit's lovely "mash-up" maps of SF & New Orleans: http://www.7x7.com/arts/rebecca-solnits-infinite-city-maps-sf-whole-new-light & http://rebeccasolnit.net/book/unfathomable-city-a-new-orleans-atlas/
• Jenni Sparks' intricate maps of Berlin, London, NYC & Paris: http://jennisparks.com/BHV-Paris
• Jao Lauro Fonte's typographical map of London: http://www.laurofonte.com/LONDON-MAP
• Fuller map of Bristol: http://www.fullermaps.com/

##Inspiration: Collections & Books

• Watercolor paintings from Bicycle Portraits: http://www.bicycleportraits.co.za/collections/original-watercolor-map-paintings
• Mapping Manhattan: http://mapyourmemories.tumblr.com/mappingmanhattan
• From Here to There: A Curious Collection from the Hand Drawn Map Association: http://www.handmaps.org/book.html
• Details from the David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/maps-up-close
• You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination: http://books.google.com/books?id=Hohb0VFSl-QC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
• City Cycling Europe: http://www.thamesandhudson.com/City_Cycling_Europe/9780500291009
• Comic Book Cartography, A Collection of Maps & Diagrams: http://comicbookcartography.posthaven.com/
• BrainPickings curated map posts: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/07/a-map-of-the-world-according-to-illustrators-and-storytellers/ & http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/04/17/magnificent-maps-cartography-as-power-propaganda-and-art/ & http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/01/07/must-read-map-books/

##Activities Work on a personal project, or pick a couple of activities to do at Maptime! Be sure to bring your own art supplies, though we'll have some trace paper, pens, and colored pencils available. Feel free to bring references or things you'd like to trace as well. These activities are inspired in part by Map Art Lab.

###01 Mental Maps & Commute Trips, Rawr I'm a transportation planner/engineer, so I'm always thinking about how one gets from point A to point B. And I've always wanted to do a mental maps exercise and collect sweet qualitiative data on perceived commutes, so yay! If you're curious about Mental Maps, a couple folks at Berkeley's I-School have a great "Visualizing Mental Maps of San Francisco" project.

1. Sketch a map of your neighborhood, and the places you live in and out of.
2. Draw your commute, and the sights along the way -OR-
3. Draw how you got to Maptime tonight.

###02 Bay Area Local Treasure Map Are you really into geocaching or FINDING TREASURE?! I know I like treasure. Unfortunately, I don't have gold to hide, nor hundred dollar bills whose location I can tweet out, but we can still find Bay Area treasures all around (Tilden Park? Awwww yeah).

1. Make a list of your favorite Bay Area "not for tourists super legit" spots or paths. For example, I could make a map of legit dim sum spots, or favorite places to bike.
2. Draw it! Need a base map? Try Maps --> Image from Stamen.
3. For the spirited folk, crumble up your paper and stain it with tea. More instructions here.
4. Adding a pirate ship in the bay is optional.
5. Trade your treasure map with a fellow Maptimer and go adventuring, yay!

###03 Where Do We Go Did you play lots of Carmen Sandiego as a kid, or have you spent hours procrastinating on Sporcle? This activity might be for you...

1. Pick and print a blank world map in whatever projection you so desire from here: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm. Or draw one up yourself, whatever you like.
2. Highlight places you've lived, places you've been, places you'd like to go, etc.
3. BONUS: Guess where Carmen Sandiego is.

###04 Cartouches Don't forget to spruce up your map and:

1. Draw a sweet compass rose
2. Add a decorative map title
3. Adorn your map with sea monsters and the like
4. Frame it!

Show & Tell

to come. Ping me @danielledai so I can collect your/more sweet hand-drawn maps.