Tag: MAPS

Posted on by — 3 Comments

Making Art From Maps: Inspiration, Techniques, and an International Gallery of Artists

Journey through the craft of Making Art with Maps.

From origami to paper cutting and decoupage, love of paper crafting has soared, and with it the variety of paper types used by artists. Among these are maps – an apt choice for any crafter: they’re easy to find, often free, meant to be folded, and their colorful surfaces add an allure of travel to every project.

Making Art from Maps is equal parts inspiration and fun. Jill K. Berry, author of Map Art Lab returns, bringing her expertise in maps and her wide-ranging skills as an artist with her.

With her cartographic connections, she takes you on a gallery tour, introducing you to the work of some of the most exciting artists creating with maps today. Designer interviews are accompanied by 25 accessible how-to projects of her own design that teach many of the techniques used by the gallery artists.

Product Features

  • Making Art from Maps Inspiration Techniques and an International Gallery of Artists
Posted on by — Leave a comment

The Art of Illustrated Maps: A Complete Guide to Creative Mapmaking’s History, Process and Inspiration

While literally hundreds of books exist on the subject of “cartographic” maps, The Art of Illustrated Maps is the first book EVER to fully explore the world of conceptual, “imaginative” mapping. Author John Roman refers to illustrated maps as “the creative nonfiction of cartography,” and his book reveals how and why the human mind instinctively recognizes and accepts the artistic license evoked by this unique art form. Drawing from numerous references, The Art of Illustrated Maps traces the 2000-year history of a specialized branch of illustration that historians claim to be “the oldest variety of primitive art.” This book features the dynamic works of many professional map artists from around the world and documents the creative process as well as the inspirations behind contemporary, 21st-century illustrated maps.

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Motivation and Power Sources: MAPS to the Present Moment Guide Book

Learn how to discover, identify and create your personal motivation and power sources!

Maps will help you create new ways of thinking that are both uplifting and creative, opening your heart and mind to new possibilities.

You will be shown how to use these powerful, self-help tools to change your thinking, enhance your confidence and build self-esteem.

Most of all, Maps will bring you into the present moment, the conscious Now , where your true power resides.

Your Maps will help you to:

* Stop the “Committee” mind chatter.

* Inspire and uplift yourself and others.

* Bring yourself to conscious awareness.

* Change disempowering thoughts, feelings and moods.

* Enhance gratitude and appreciation.

Maps to the Present Moment is a guide to conscious living. Included are activities for parents and children to do together and classroom activities for teachers and their students.

Maps, your personal motivation and power sources will navigate you from confusion to clarity, from discouragement to hopefulness and they will restore positive thinking and feeling!